Little things you'd change with PHP

[tibberous]

floatval / intval would ignore $ signs (ie: floatval("$5.25") would be 5.25, instead of 0 )

 

There would be a shorter version of mysql_real_escape_string, or even better, a shorter version of mysql_real_escape_string(trim())

 

Using [] on a non-array would initialize it as an array

 

 

[Daniel0]

floatval / intval would ignore $ signs (ie: floatval("$5.25") would be 5.25, instead of 0 )

 

That's ridiculous. Why would it do that? What about "£5.52" or "DKK 5.52" or millions of other things that could be regarded as numbers?

 

floatval / intval would ignore $ signs (ie: floatval("$5.25") would be 5.25, instead of 0 )

 

There would be a shorter version of mysql_real_escape_string, or even better, a shorter version of mysql_real_escape_string(trim())

 

Here you go:

function my_mysql_escape($string, $link = null)
{
    return mysql_real_escape_string(trim($string), $link);
}

 

It's not PHP's job making endless of aliases for you.

 

Using [] on a non-array would initialize it as an array

 

Just cast to array.

 

daniel@daniel-laptop:~$ php -r "var_dump((array) 'foo');"
array(1) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "foo"
}

[Dennis1986]

I was just about to post, but then Daniel0 did and I was going to write something similar, so I'm just going with "what he said".

[roopurt18]

There would be a shorter version of mysql_real_escape_string, or even better, a shorter version of mysql_real_escape_string(trim())

Use PDO.  It's better anyways.

 

Or just wrap it in your own alias as daniel suggested.  No reason you can't name it mres or sql_escape or z if you want to be lazy and non-descriptive.

[tibberous]

Didn't say there were critical, just that they would make the language better. If floatval stripped everything to the first number, I'd be happy -- returning 0 when there are digits in the string really doesn't make sense.

 

If the people who made PHP weren't worried about convenience when they wrote the language, we wouldn't have anything near what we have now. The ? operator, the foreach loop, $arr[] = $x, the for loop, ect. are all just shortcuts for things that could be done with only slightly more code.

 

[waynew]

floatval / intval would ignore $ signs (ie: floatval("$5.25") would be 5.25, instead of 0 )

 

That's ridiculous. Why would it do that? What about "£5.52" or "DKK 5.52" or millions of other things that could be regarded as numbers?

 

floatval / intval would ignore $ signs (ie: floatval("$5.25") would be 5.25, instead of 0 )

 

There would be a shorter version of mysql_real_escape_string, or even better, a shorter version of mysql_real_escape_string(trim())

 

Here you go:

function my_mysql_escape($string, $link = null)
{
    return mysql_real_escape_string(trim($string), $link);
}

 

It's not PHP's job making endless of aliases for you.

 

Using [] on a non-array would initialize it as an array

 

Just cast to array.

 

daniel@daniel-laptop:~$ php -r "var_dump((array) 'foo');"
array(1) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "foo"
}

 

function m($string, $link = null)
{
    return mysql_real_escape_string(trim($string), $link);
}

 

pwned

[Daniel0]

No. Fail for not being able to quote people properly

[waynew]

No. Fail for not being able to quote people properly

 

WUT?