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inyavic

I'm interested!!

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This thread will serve as a interactive learning platform for PHP programmers to share knowledge from What they have learned using PHP, or What they want to know about PHP, or error And bug fix.

Adrenaline123: inyavic

i suspect so as well.

Brb

**Spreads my mat yakata**

What does @ do in PHP?
Is it admirable to use it?

@ is used to protocol email in php e.g. mufu@nairaland.com, when is the tutorial startin nau?

dhtml: @ is used to protocol email in php e.g. mufu@nairaland.com, when is the tutorial startin nau?

I don't think that is what the poster was referring to. I believe it is the use of the '@' symbol before the name of functions that return a file-like object/handle. eg.

$file = @file($someFilename); 

according to this stackoverflow answer it is used to suppress error messages

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1032161/what-is-the-use-of-symbol-in-php

Ah i see, i am a learner on this thread really.

bb6xt:
I don't think that is what the poster was referring to. I believe it is the use of the '@' symbol before the name of functions that return a file-like object/handle. eg.

$file = @file($someFilename); 

according to this stackoverflow answer it is used to suppress error messages
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1032161/what-is-the-use-of-symbol-in-php

You got it Thank you.
The @ symbol is to be placed before any PHP function name to suppress warning error returned by that function.

Now, is it a Good practice to use the @ symbol to suppress warning errors?

Why is it that using session_start when using PHP mail function to send email And return to that same page gives a warning error like: header already sent blah blah( can't really remember the full warning error now )

PHP to .exe is now possible with this compilers
http://www.bambalam.se/bamcompile/
Phalanger

http://www.php-compiler.net/

http://wiki.php-compiler.net/Phalanger_Wiki

http://phalanger.codeplex.com

Or better still check out more here
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9046675/convert-a-php-script-into-a-stand-alone-windows-executable

You cannot even promote the one a nairalander (namely dhtml) made which is very fantastic and even comes with internal browser - https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpbrowserbox/ - and supports PHP5.4.16,MySQL5.6.12 and SQLite3 unlike the bamcompile (php 4.4 which is no longer supported).

So sorry @dhtml I will of cause promote phpbrowser box.
Now tell us What it can do?

guru01: So sorry @dhtml I will of cause promote phpbrowser box.
Now tell us What it can do?

It has a link does it not, and has recorded over 150 downloaded last time i checked the stats.