[wp-hackers] function_exists - user woes

[Alex King]

Heh. Proving the point, I actually screwed up the conditional syntax 
below, it should have been:

<?php if (function_exists('my_hack_function')) { my_hack_function(); } 
?>

:)

--Alex

http://www.alexking.org/


On Jul 29, 2004, at 11:46 PM, Alex King wrote:

> I agree that plugins work poorly in the regard, but use 
> function_exists as suggested, you have to require the user to add more 
> complex code into their template. This makes installing a plugin/hack 
> much more complicated.
>
> <?php my_hack_function(); ?>
>
> turns into:
>
> <?php if (function_exists('my_hack_function') { my_hack_function(); } 
> ?>
>
> And that is a very simple case. There isn't a way that I know of to 
> remove that complexity and still have the conditional.