Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "M. Strobel" Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: $this->delimiter in php explode Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:26:36 +0200 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <9v4k9cFdhoU1@mid.uni-berlin.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de ZR+3r4Hq8wff/1Gqu22Ebw/zy4uP/lPpfWZABJ0OQ7QEHI17Q= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 Thunderbird/3.1.20 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:5550 Am 17.04.2012 03:45, schrieb j: > I've written a function in a class > > public $delimiter = ';'; > > ... > > public function some_function(){ > echo $this->delimiter; // yields: ; > $SOME_ARRAY= explode($this->delimiter,$some_string); > > echo $this->delimiter // yields: 1 > > So, running explode changes the value of the class variable $delimiter. It's obvious > I'm stepping on something, but I'm not sure what other than there is a delimiter in > explode. What does $this mean inside the explode function? > > Jeff The error must be outside the shown code, as is the case with setting of $some_string. The parameters here are okay. Maybe just do a string search on "delimiter"? /Str.