$Live = False;

[Ryan R]

Hi all,

 

I have one simple question. I know it's really basic question but I wanted to clarify what they are...

 

If you see config.inc.php file below:

 

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$live = false;

 

 

function my_error_handler ($e_number, $e_message, $e_file, $e_line, $e_vars) {

 

global $live, $contact_email;

 

//build the error message

$message="An error occurred in script '$e_file' on line $e_line:\n$e_message\n";

 

//add the backtrace;

$message.="<pre>".print_r(debug_backtrace(),1)."</pre>\n";

 

if(!$live) { //show the error in the browser

 

echo'<div class="error">'.nl2br($message).'</div>';

 

}else{//development (print the error)

//send the error in an email;

error_log($message,1,$contact_email,'From:admin@example.com');

 

//only print an error message in the browser, if the error isn't a notice.

if($e_number != E_NOTICE) {

echo'<div class="error">A system error occurred. We apologize for the inconvenience.</div>';

}

 

}//end of $live IF-ELSE

 

 

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$live = false; means, as a flag, it's not true. So you can think this is not live.

 

When you look at "if(!$live) {" part, I thought it meant it's live. Because $live = false and !$live is true. However the way this code described was that it meant to be when $live was false..

 

I am confused.. Can you explain it why it is like that?

 

Thank you very much and look forward to hearing from you soon.

[Stuart]

Prepending an IF statement with ! flips the value of the variable. So if $live is set to FALSE then:

 

if(!$live) { //show the error in the browser

 

Returns TRUE meaning the next code block is executed. So when the $live flag is set to FALSE the following code is executed:

 

echo'<div class="error">'.nl2br($message).'</div>';

 

However when you change the value to TRUE the IF statement evaluates to FALSE meaning the ELSE block gets executed:

 

//send the error in an email;
error_log($message,1,$contact_email,'From:admin@example.com');

//only print an error message in the browser, if the error isn't a notice.
if($e_number != E_NOTICE) {
echo'<div class="error">A system error occurred. We apologize for the inconvenience.</div>';
}

[Ryan R]

Thanks Stuart,

 

So, my thought was correct, then.