which of these conditionals is correctly written?

[edprush]

<if condition="$forum[link] != ''">target="_blank"</if>

or

<if condition="$forum[link] != ''">target="_blank"</if>

The only difference is the [link] vs ['link']

Thanks.

 

[Gneisenau]

Originally posted by: edprush
<if condition="$forum[link] != ''">target="_blank"</if>

or

<if condition="$forum[link] != ''">target="_blank"</if>

The only difference is the [link] vs ['link']

Thanks.

No, I'm thinking both lines of code are identical 🙂 Now, you may have meant one to be different than the other.......

 

[edprush]

Sorry. Here's try number 2:


Which of these conditionals is correctly written?

<if condition="$forum[link] != ''">target="_blank"</if>

or

<if condition="$forum['link'] != ''">target="_blank"</if>

The only difference is the [link] vs ['link']

Thanks.

 

[ruijorge]

The one that works 😛.

 

[troytime]

wouldn't it depend on the language?

if its php, $forum['link']

your code doesn't look like php though

 

[pstylesss]

I've always used ['link'].


EDIT:

Originally posted by: troytime
wouldn't it depend on the language?

if its php, $forum['link']

your code doesn't look like php though

^ He's right if it's PHP. Are you just wording your conditional instead of putting it in code?

 

[troytime]

Originally posted by: ruijorge
The one that works 😛.

in this case, they'd both work - unless there was a constant named link, which would cause unexpected behavior for the unquoted array key

 

[LeetestUnleet]

In most languages, you'll want to use $forum['link'] because it's a named key. $forum[link] MIGHT work, but it's bad practice to do so, and as troytime mentioned, if there's a constant named link it'll cause some strange behavior you'll spend hours trying to find again, when you could simply do it right the first time.