It’s been called off. In addition to, evidently, nobody thinking a person with degrees in history and library science could be a decent web programmer (I can, really!) I realized that the flexibility my current job provides far outweighs the gap between my current and deserved salaries.
But if you insist on trying to give me money, I’m certainly willing to talk to you.
If you don’t know PHP, you can safely ignore this.
I had been using the following code to get rows out of a database (it’s with Oracle, but I’m sure mysql_fetch_assoc() would work just as well for these):
while ($row = oci_fetch_array($result)) {
$whatever[] = $row[];
}
But then it hit me: if I’m already fetching the next row of results in the while() statement, and only copying the results into another array, couldn’t I compact the code more? I rushed to that old sandbox of mine, test.php, and tried:
while ($whatever[] = oci_fetch_array($result));
And by gum, it worked.
I’m assuming there will be one of two reactions from people who read this far:
But considering I’m entirely self-taught, I’m fairly proud of myself. And if I shouldn’t be, please do let me know.
Edit: And there it is! Since the loop creates the new item in the array and then fills it with the value of oci_fetch_array, there’s always an empty value at the end that messes with foreach(). It was a fun idea while it lasted, though.
Kopyleft 2006-2010 Dan Conley. All rites reversed.
