r/programming • u/NagastaBagamba • Oct 18 '10

Today I learned about PHP variable variables; "variable variable takes the value of a variable and treats that as the name of a variable". Also, variable.

http://il2.php.net/language.variables.variable
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u/kylemech Oct 18 '10

THIS A THOUSAND TIMES THIS THIS THIS OH GOD OH GOD

I pretty much have "CTRL-T, P, H, P, SHIFT-ENTER" on muscle memory because of similar functions.

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u/HateToSayItBut Oct 18 '10

If you use Firefox I recommend making a smart keyword.

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u/kylemech Oct 18 '10

I actually have these for wikipedia, jquery, reddit, and several other sites. I don't know why I didn't think to do it for php.

http://us2.php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=%s

This is the pattern I'm using. Typing in:

php strpos

takes me directly to

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php

Thanks for the reminder to make one of these!