I am trying to make a function to calculate the time difference of two values, but my return in my code below gives me unexpected string, how come? Answer You do appear to be getting the syntax of Javascript and PHP mixed up. There is no var in PHP – that belongs in Javascript and variables in PHP begin with
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How to rewrite an echo function to a return value for a WordPress theme
I am new to PHP and I am glad that I have written the following function (which works as it should) on my own so far: But now I definitly need your help… As you can see I want to use this function in a shortcode. Currently it displays first on my page, and Google says, this is because I
PHP function working differently for return and echo. Why?
By using the following class: and Calling the function, by the following code, it works fine. But if in the SafeGuardInput class if I replace echo $finaloutput; with return $finaloutput; and then echo $forminput; on the index.php page. It DOES NOT WORK. Please provide a solution. Answer You can’t return anything from a constructor. The new keyword always causes the
How to execute a Python program in PHP and use the return value inside HTML ?
How would I go about executing Python code from PHP? I belive shell_exec(Command) will run a command from the terminal. I have tried this so far: <?php $command = escapeshellcmd('python3 main.py')…
return result of foreach loop(s)
I have the some code which looks something like this (I’ve simplified it): function process_something($a){ foreach($a as $b){ // Some logic here return $something; } } $input=[…
php shorthand return statement
So i was just recently looking for some examples of validating a unix timestamp. One code chunk that kept reappearing was this: Now I have looked for shorthand return if statements which I think this might be but I am not having any luck. can anyone explain to me how this function is deciding what to return and how. Thanks
Best practice for PHP methods with regard to reference parameter or explicit return value
I’ve used both methods quite a bit but I recently wondered why I hadn’t standardized on one or the other, or if there was a best practice and what the reasons behind it are. While the returning references page at PHP states quite clearly, with respect to returning references: Only return references when you have a valid technical reason to
Moving from mysql to mysqli – problems
I have the following code: $query3 = “SELECT Office, COUNT(Office) As Tot_Part, (SELECT COUNT(Office) FROM trespondent WHERE completion_status= ‘Started’ OR completion_status = ‘Complete’) As …
get return from echo
I’m working with some functions that echo output. But I need their return so I can use them in PHP. This works (seemingly without a hitch) but I wonder, is there a better way? Example: Answer no, the only way i can think of to “catch” echo-statements it to use output-buffering like you already do. i’m using a very similar