Breaking a variable

mailtome

Hi
I have a class in which there is a variable
public static $textDonate = 'blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah';
Now what I want is only the first 70 characters to be one line and the next on the 2nd line.
So what I tried is
public static $textDonate = 'blah blah blah blahblah blah'.
'blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah';

madwormer2

Why don't you just press the good ol' return key?

mailtome

The problem is i am passing this variable to a function and am doing some string comparison and stuff. If i press the return key my function fails 🙁 i.e i suppose the value in the variable is diff when u press the return key.

madwormer2

use " intstead of ' and then use \n for newline 😉

mailtome

I have to follow some stupid coding convention according to which a line should not have more than 80 chars 🙁.. I dont want a \n or new line.

leatherback

public static $textDonate = 'blah blah blah blahblah blah';
$textdonate .= 'blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah';

madwormer2

Ohhhhh... I thought you meant... nevermind

Right, so you have a limit on each line... then what you suggested first should work...

or that ^, I had a completely different idea of what you wanted to do... :xbones:

mailtome

i had tried this also but this it gives the error mentioned below
public static $textDonate = 'blah blah blah blahblah blah';
$textdonate .= 'blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah';

This gives an error
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting T_FUNCTION in C:\Program Files\oss\httpd\htdocs\test1234\common.php on line 51

nrglift

public static $textDonate = 'blah blah blah blahblah blah';
$textdonate .= 'blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah';

Make sure every time you same variable name like: $textDonate

$textDonate = 'blah blah blah blahblah blah';
$textDonate .= 'blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah';

Weedpacket

Coding standards :rolleyes:. As George Orwell put it when describing his guidelines of English usage: "break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous".

static $textDonate=null;
if(is_null($textDonate))
{
  $textDonate = (build the string however you like).
}

The null test is so that the string is built once and once only (as is proper for a static var).

Of course, the real solution would be if PHP allowed arbitrary constant/static expressions in static declarations....