Wat does this? GetVar?

[Gayner]

$item_id = GetVar('item_id', 0, 'int');[/cod]e

then it uses it for 

:

[code]$DB->query("INSERT INTO {items_purchased} (item_id, pack_id, group_id, user_id, points_spent, purchase_date)
                VALUES ($item[item_id], $item[pack_id], $item[group_id], $user_info[user_id], $item[cost], " . TIME_NOW . ")");

 

 

what essentially is it doing?

[Alex]

GetVar isn't a standard PHP Function, and $item_id isn't even used (from what I can see) in that code at all.

[redarrow]

item_id is used

$item_id = GetVar('item_id', 0, 'int');[/cod]e

then it uses it for 

:

[code]$DB->query("INSERT INTO {items_purchased} (item_id, pack_id, group_id, user_id, points_spent, purchase_date)
                VALUES ($item[item_id], $item[pack_id], $item[group_id], $user_info[user_id], $item[cost], " . TIME_NOW . ")");

 

 

what essentially is it doing?

 

 

That just a cocky programmer, what i can see,

 

just a way to confuse the person that get the script i think,

 

i think the variable $item_id was misspelled should off been called $item

 

conclusion this part of the code.

 

$item_id = GetVar('item_id', 0, 'int'); << the number off these should match the insert number of variables, if i am correct.

 

The GetVar is another function to set the internal array settings to protect the database off a insert...

 

what i think anyway?

 

[448191]

Yeah damn those cocky bastards, intentionally trying to confuse us all.. 

 

But for real, the best way to find out what something does in absence of documentation is look at the code. Find "function GetVar" in the code somewhere. But if I would have to make an educated guess, you'll find something like this:

 

function GetVar($index, $default = null, $dataType = 'string')
{
return settype(isset($_GET[$index]) ? $_GET[$index] : $default, $dataType);
}