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Aaron Uusitalo
Aaron Uusitalo
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Posted by Aaron Uusitalo
Aaron Uusitalo
4,405 Points

concatenation with magic constants

I want to share something in case it is helpful to anyone.

I found that when instantiating a new sqlite object, I had to make sure to put a space before and after DIR or it would not be properly interpreted as a magic constant, and therefore would fail.

WORKED: $db = new PDO("sqlite:" . DIR . "/database.db"); FAILED: $db = new PDO("sqlite:".DIR. "/database.db");

I am working with a local Apache2 server in Ubuntu, and using Geany as my code editor.

Cheers.

Aaron Uusitalo
Aaron Uusitalo
4,405 Points
Aaron Uusitalo
Aaron Uusitalo
4,405 Points

Note: underscores are not showing up in this post for some reason. Perhaps it's a matter of the output being escaped.