[thelist] Global variables in functions?

[Ralph Guzman]

Kelly

You're right. In this case, it does not make a difference if you used
echo or return. But it would if you wanted to return multiple values. 

It is better programming practice to not echo/print inside a function,
always return the data whether it be string, boolean, array. This way
you can later determine when (and if) it should be displayed and how.

Else, you'll find yourself re-writing functions because you need it to
return data instead of displaying it. Of course there will be times when
it's necessary to break this rule, but personally except for when I'm
debugging code, I can't remember the last time I had to break the rule.

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Ralph Guzman
EM: ralph213<AT>sbcblobal.net

>Isn't that pretty reflexive?  Looks like a wrapper for echo.
>I see that you ammended your post saying that it should return $output 
>instead of using echo.  However, I still fail to see how it's much 
>different than if ($o) { echo $o; }, unless other code was added...

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Kelly Hallman
http://wrack.org/


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