After a certain while if I’ve been working on code I get a bit blinded by the nice things I’ve accomplished and tend to focus on what I’m not happy with. Lets make this posting about something simple I’m happy with and which looks very nice: declaring and verifying constants. I’m a big fan of constants (not so much of magic constants but that’s a different story) and I use them frequently in my code. One thing that’s always important is to check whether you’ve actually already set the constant otherwise you get a warning/error dependant on the strictness setting of your error reporting. So here’s a nice way to set and verify whether you’ve actually set the constant already:
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defined(‘LANGUAGE’) or define(‘LANGUAGE’, ‘en-us’);
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If that ain’t a thing of beauty I don’t know what is :-)