And now for this week's episode of Amusingly Named Functions Theater

[annathepiper]

PHP has a function called "explode". You feed it a string, tell it how the string is delimited between its words, and its spits back an array for you of the string's component words.

Though really, I don't much care what it does. I just like the name. ALL programming languages should have a function called "explode".

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[avram]

And the function that does the opposite, turning an array into a string, is called implode().

I think the documentation for explode() should start off "This isn't as much fun as you'd expect given the name". Which is pretty much how I felt when I got to the section on Butt Kicks in my exercise book.

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[annathepiper]

Yeah, I know about implode(), too. :) I am using both of them on the current PHP coding project I'm doing to go with the mysql database I'm making for Two Moons MUSH. Those two functions helped make my life easier.

YAY PHP! blargh sez he wants PHP to bear his children. The more I play with it, the more I am inclined to share his sentiments. ;)

[avram]

Yup, PHP rocks. I wish I'd gotten a chance to do some MySQL stuff with it at my old job; then there'd be some remote chance that I might be able to get some work doing PHP stuff.

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[annathepiper]

Is there any sort of project you could take on? Hell, I saw a bunch of SQL-related jobs coming over my search engines... and since I'd been wanting to take the roleplay timeline I have been maintaining for the aforementioned Two Moons MUSH and convert it into database form anyway, I decided to teach myself mysql by doing it.

Which, amusingly enough, helped contribute to me getting my current job, as I have mentioned in previous LJ posts. ;) I am still QUITE amused by this. Though the data entry part of the project is hella slow.