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Re: Good code or bad code? [message #170190 is a reply to message #170185]

Sun, 17 October 2010 13:25

MikeB
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Hamish Campbell wrote:
> On Oct 17, 5:20 pm, MikeB<mpbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm mostly playing with PHP to get a feeling for coding in it.
>>
>> So as part of all this URI/URL/redirect stuff I spent some time looking
>> at the contents of $_SERVER and I came up with this code to find the
>> filename of the file I'm invoked from. Now one condition that I wanted
>> to cater for was if the filename had multiple "."s in the name, for
>> instance myfile.inc.php, or something like this.
>>
>> So I came up with this piece of code.
>>
>> $uriParts = explode("/",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
>> $thisFile = substr(end($uriParts),0,(strlen(end($uriParts))) -
>> (strlen(end($uriParts))- strrpos(end($uriParts),'.')));
>>
>> So I was wondering if that is good code or if I could have written it
>> better, since looking at it it is quite hard to understand.
>
> Have a look at:
>
> <http://nz.php.net/manual/en/function.pathinfo.php>
>
> e.g:
>
> $name = pathinfo($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PATHINFO_FILENAME);
>

Thank you, that is *much* cleaner and more understandable.

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		Good code or bad code? By: MikeB on Sun, 17 October 2010 04:20
		Re: Good code or bad code? By: Hamish Campbell on Sun, 17 October 2010 06:33
		Re: Good code or bad code? By: MikeB on Sun, 17 October 2010 13:25
		Re: Good code or bad code? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 17 October 2010 12:47
		Re: Good code or bad code? By: MikeB on Sun, 17 October 2010 13:12
		Re: Good code or bad code? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 17 October 2010 13:37
		Re: Good code or bad code? By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sun, 17 October 2010 17:09
		Re: Good code or bad code? By: Magno on Sun, 17 October 2010 18:18
		Re: Good code or bad code? By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sun, 17 October 2010 18:39
		Re: Good code or bad code? By: Magno on Sun, 17 October 2010 22:16
		Re: Good code or bad code? By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sun, 17 October 2010 23:58
		Re: Good code or bad code? By: Hamish Campbell on Mon, 18 October 2010 06:09
		Re: Good code or bad code? By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 18 October 2010 00:06

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