#10. Kevin on 15 January 2008

@ Andrea Giammarchi: Wow you did some impressive work that I was unaware of. Cool :) I will look into the define function later today and add it here, thanks a lot for that.

About the PHP vs JS stuff.. I'm not trying to port or emulate the entire language or control structures of PHP. Indeed I don't see the need because (and this is quite a statement), Javascript seems to have more elegant features in that category anyway.

However in my eyes, PHP does provide a large set of standard functions that make developing very easy, and some of them don't have good standard Javascript implementations, though they often would be great to have client-side.
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So in this project by also providing the functions separately, I hope to keep people from inventing the wheel and give them a head start.

Thanks for your comment Andrea, well appreciated. And respect for your Overbyte editor & JHP environment. The idea is very interesting, and I can see it's all coded with very high skill.

#9. Andrea Giammarchi on 14 January 2008

If you are interested in some similar stuff, looks for JHP setting in overbyte editor.

Finally, You could use my define function too, that accept only scalar values as PHP and is compatible with IE, FireFox, Safari and Opera (Opera devs will fix soon their const keyword ... I guess ...)

http://webreflection.blogspot.com/2007/10/cow-javascript-define-php-like-function.html
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However, nice stuff .. not so useful in my mind because of different languages nature (I would like to have JS behaviours in PHP, for example :D) but good luck for the project

#8. Legaev Andrey on 08 January 2008

@ Kevin: I'm sorry. Not necessary to enlist my email. I did not think about spammers :)

#7. Kevin on 07 January 2008

@ Legaev Andrey: Hi, I've updated the function and changed your name. I wasn't sure you really want me to enlist your email address?

#6. Legaev Andrey (aka Andrey) on 07 January 2008

Sorry for my short previous comment and my bad English. Below full version.

If we pass function_name as String then all ok. But if we pass the link to function (link to Object-function) then
this function returns false. In my opinion in this case this function should return true when first
parameter is instance of Function.
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function function_exists_new( function_name ) {
if (typeof function_name == \'string\')
return (typeof window[function_name] == \'function\');
else
return (function_name instanceof Function);
}

P.S. Please, change my name to Legaev Andrey <legaev_andrey@mail.ru>. Thanks.

#5. Kevin on 06 January 2008

@ Cord: Thanks for noticing. Fixed!

#4. Cord on 06 January 2008

>>function is_array() {
should be
>>function is_array(a) {

#3. Kevin on 04 January 2008

@ Steve Clay & Andrey: Thanks You guys I've updated the function. I left the old code in the comments for future reference.

#2. Andrey on 04 January 2008

>return (typeof window[function_name] == 'function');

Object-function may be defined as not a member of Window object.

#1. Steve Clay on 04 January 2008

return (typeof window[function_name] == 'function');