bxt

<?php
$in_array=array("foo"=>"fooval","baz"=>"bazval");
$in_array+=array_fill_keys(array("foo","bar","baz"),false);
// array_fill_keys is since PHP 5.2.0

// useage:

echo $in_array["foo"]?:"foodef";
// short ternary operator is since PHP 5.3.0
echo "\n";

bxt

<?php
function bxt_fileList($d,$x=false){
  foreach(scandir($d) as $f)if(is_file($d.'/'.$f)&&(!$x||preg_match('/'.$x.'$/i',$f)))$l[]=$f;
  return $l;
}

// silly "ninja" comment code from
// http://de3.php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php#90628
function file_list($d,$x){
       foreach(array_diff(scandir($d),array('.','..')) as $f)if(is_file($d.'/'.$f)&&(($x)?ereg($x.'$',$f):1))$l[]=$f;

bxt

<?php
echo foo()[0]; // PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '[', expecting ',' or ';'
function foo() {
        return array("cant thouch this");
}

// use this instead:
list($tmp)= foo();
echo $tmp;

bxt

<?php
// echo (new Foo())->$bar; // fails
// PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR, expecting ',' or ';'
echo Foo::getI()->bar; //works

class Foo {
        public function __construct() {
                $this->bar="hello world\n";
        }
        static function getI() {

bxt

svn diff | kompare -o -
#and of course:
git diff | kompare -o -

bxt

<?php if(rand(1,1000)==42) {trigger_error($debugout);}

bxt

<?php $var="foo"; $foo=array(); ${true?$var:"bar"}[]=$var; var_dump($foo);

/* Output:
array(1) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "foo"
}
*/

bxt

<?php echo 0 || 1337 ? 4 : 0 | -4 ? 5 : 0 ? 7 ^ 5: 0 ; // 2

bxt

({abc:1,def:1,jkl:1}[xyz])
// nearly the same as:
( xyz=="abc" || xyz=="def" || xyz=="jkl" )

// and....

(function(){switch(pn) {
	case "prv":return "previous";
	case "nxt":return "next";
}})()

bxt

(while true; do echo -n $'\a';sleep 1; done;) &