[wp-hackers] echo and return

lowmagnet lowmagnet at lowmag.net
Tue Jul 27 16:17:33 UTC 2004


On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:06:15AM -0700, Joseph Scott wrote:
> 	Nice to see someone brought this up.  If someone is tracking the 
> 	votes I'd got for this option above the URL format.  Besides, unless 
> everyone is using urlencode() on their parameters and all of the WP 
> functions use urldecode() to get the proper values the URL format will 
> break when values that aren't URL friendly are being passed (like spaces).

Also, reminding people to put %20 in for space just seems unfriendly. better to remove the temptation entirely.

PERL (not that I like it but...) code mainly passes this way, and it works surprisingly well. They don't use array() specifically, optiong rather to shortcut to something like @{'a'=>'value'} or something equaly obfuscated.

-eli



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