Re: [Apc-aa-coders] switch behavior

[Mitra <mi...@ea...>]

{variable}  expands to "{variable}" when it doesn't exist to avoid 
unecessarily catching it when people inadvertantly put { or } in 
something that they don't want expanded. This happens most often with 
Javascript in a view.

One reminder ..... if you have a problem, add &errcheck=1  to the URL 
, it catches many errors (including undefined variables).

In fact I have this code in my config.php3 ...

if ($GLOBALS[REMOTE_ADDR] == "203.43.123.456") {
     $errcheck = 1;
#    $debugcache = 1;
#    $debugupload = 1;
#    $debugsi = 1; // Debug Storeitem
#    $debugfill = 1;
#    $debugimport = 1;
       $trace = 1; // On error messages try to display a trace of 
where the problem is.
}

So that if it spots the user is me (based on an IP address that I 
use, but the users don't) then it sets errcheck=1 (commented out 
alternatives for debugging other sorts of problems).

- Mitra


At 11:54 AM +0200 3/7/03, Norbert Brazda wrote:
>I used what you have suggested. Result is: "NOT{variable}EMPTY". The 
>problem is that variable is NOT DEFINED (i.e. it is not empty, but 
>does not exist at all). I think that switch should show "other" 
>option, not "not empty" option in such case.
>
>I have solved this in our case, but would like to say that this 
>behavior is not expected and might cause problems to other people 
>using switch function.
>
>
>norbert
>br...@ch...
>
>
>
>From: "Mitra" <mi...@ea...>
>>  I use this syntax all the time (actually I use
>>
>>  {switch({variable}).+:NOTEMPTY::EMPTY}
>>
>>  but I think they behave the same way. I would suggest outputing
>>  {variable} and checking that its really empty. Like
>>
>>  {switch({variable}).+:NOT{variable}EMPTY::EMPTY}
>>
>>
>>  - Mitra
>>
>>
>>  At 5:22 PM +0200 2/7/03, Norbert Brazda wrote:
>>  >We have found that {switch():} function is not behaving as expected...
>>  >
>>  >{switch({variable}).+:NOTEMPTY:EMPTY}
>>  >should output NOTEMPTY string if the variable is not empty and EMPTY
>>  >string if variable is empty. This works.
>>  >
>>  >One would expected that if variable is not defined, switch function
>>  >would output EMPTY string. But it outputs NOTEMPTY string.
>>  >
>>  >Please, correct it.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
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