what is this error???

[babygodzilla]

HELP! how do i fix this?

Fatal error: Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency? in ...\functions.php on line 580

[bubblenut]

Show us ur code!

[babygodzilla]

function processMultiple($class1, $class2, $flag, $course1, $course2, $holidays, $noLabs)
{
    //...
   //just gonna get to the gist of the code

if(TIME CONFLICT EXISTS)
{
  	$errMessage = "{$class1['code']} {$class1['courseNum']} time conflict with {$class2['code']} {$class2['courseNum']}";
//THE CODE BELOW IS WHERE THE TROUBLE ALWAYS POPS UP
			foreach($errorMessage as $key => $value)
	        {
		if($errorMessage[$key]['message'] == $errMessage)
			$errorMessage[$key]['size']++;
		else
		{
			$errorMessage[]['message'] = $errMessage;
			$errorMessage[]['size'] = 1;
		}
	}
		return true;
}

[YappyDog]

Well, to me it looks like you have unbalanced brackets. You have four opens "{", and only three closes "}". You also have an if statement that looks to be more pseudo code than actual code.

if(TIME CONFLICT EXISTS)

[planetsim]

Indent your code

function processMultiple($class1, $class2, $flag, $course1, $course2, $holidays, $noLabs) {
    //...
   //just gonna get to the gist of the code
  if(TIME CONFLICT EXISTS) {
    $errMessage = "{$class1['code']} {$class1['courseNum']} time conflict with {$class2['code']} {$class2['courseNum']}";
	//THE CODE BELOW IS WHERE THE TROUBLE ALWAYS POPS UP
    foreach($errorMessage as $key => $value) {
      if($errorMessage[$key]['message'] == $errMessage) {
         $errorMessage[$key]['size']++;
	  } else {
        $errorMessage[]['message'] = $errMessage;
        $errorMessage[]['size'] = 1;
      }

}

   return true;
  }
}

Also

if(TIME CONFLICT EXISTS) is incorrect as well as previously pointed out

[babygodzilla]

Originally posted by YappyDog
Well, to me it looks like you have unbalanced brackets. You have four opens "{", and only three closes "}". You also have an if statement that looks to be more pseudo code than actual code.

if(TIME CONFLICT EXISTS)

yea that one i just typed for this thread cause it was kinda a long if statement so i didnt wanna clutter the post. sorry :o

i think i might have pasted the code wrong or something because if i had an unbalanced number of brackets id get a parse error right? the thing is, with certain inputs this Fatal Error shows up, and with other inputs it doesnt, so I can't quite pinpoint where the error is.

[babygodzilla]

ok i think its something like this. i think my code THINKS that there's some recursion but in reality there isn't. im not sure why it thinks that.

When print_r( ) sees the reference to $user_1 the second time, it prints RECURSION instead of descending into the array. It then continues on its way, printing the remaining elements of $user_1 and $user_2.

Confronted with recursion, var_dump( ) behaves differently:

array(4) {
["name"]=>
string(9) "Leo Bloom"
["username"]=>
string(3) "leo"
["friend"]=>
&array(4) {
["name"]=>
string(14) "Max Bialystock"
["username"]=>
string(3) "max"
["friend"]=>
&array(4) {
["name"]=>
string(9) "Leo Bloom"
["username"]=>
string(3) "leo"
["friend"]=>
&array(4) {
["name"]=>
string(14) "Max Bialystock"
["username"]=>
string(3) "max"
["friend"]=>
&array(4) {
["name"]=>
string(9) "Leo Bloom"
["username"]=>
string(3) "leo"
["friend"]=>
&array(4) {
["name"]=>
string(14) "Max Bialystock"
["username"]=>
string(3) "max"
["friend"]=>
&array(4) {
["name"]=>
string(9) "Leo Bloom"
["username"]=>
string(3) "leo"
["friend"]=>
&array(4) {
<br />
<b>Fatal error</b>: Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency? in
<b>var-dump.php</b> on line <b>15</b><br />

It's not until the fourth appearance of the reference to $user_1 that var_dump( ) stops recursing. When it does, it throws a fatal error, and no more variable dumping (or script execution) occurs.

Even though print_r( ) and var_dump( ) print their results instead of returning them, you can capture the data without printing it using output buffering:

ob_start();
var_dump($user);
$dump = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

This puts the results of var_dump($user) in $dump.
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