Asymptomatic

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Strange Gasses of Inner Suburbia
February 23, 2005

I will be sad when I finally come to my senses and pack my lunch to save money, because then I will not have the pleasure of sharing lunch with a roomful of odd people and their quirky habits.

I sat down at Wendy’s today with the intention of quietly consuming my fries and chicken strips, and maybe making a few notes on some future web projects. A lady with a pierced eyebrow was chowing down on some double-cheeseburger a few tables away. I noticed this because while I was looking out the window admiring the sunny day, I saw her staring at me in the periphery.

Namespace Collisions
February 22, 2005

Our next issue is namespaces. I’ve written some information about this in the codex. This project is probably a little small to be worrying about namespace collisions, but it merits mention so that you can use good practices when you move onto bigger things.

When you write a function in PHP, generally it exists in the global namespace. That means that you ca call that function from anywhere. It is not possible to declare two functions in the global namespace with the same name in PHP. If you and your friend write plugins to do similar things, you should’t use the same function names. But if you want to write a plugin that doesn’t share function names with people you haven’t met, how do you do that?