Container Functions Continued.....

Thanks to everyone who responded to me so far, but I fear that I have not
explained myself too clearly.

First of all, I understand the argument about having a testing, development
and live servers, however, in the real world not every client can afford
that hardware and it is not always feasable for smaller websites to have all
the equipment.

So, lets base this on the fact that there is one server that has one URL,
One IP and all development/testing is done on the live website.

Now that I have that out of the way.

What I am trying to accomplish is a function that can contain code blocks,
like an if statement. Something that would operate like:

developer_execute() {
execute this code only
}

Where the function developer_execute would be defined as:
function developer_execute() {
if(getenv("REMOTE_ADDR")=="000.000.000.000") {
%body
}
}

Where the %body is the actual code represented by 'execute this code only'
above.

So, the question is, is there a way to create a function like an if function
that does not only reply on the arguments between the ( and ) in the
function call?

Thanks again.



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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:04:00 -0400, you wrote:

>First of all, I understand the argument about having a testing, development
>and live servers, however, in the real world not every client can afford
>that hardware and it is not always feasable for smaller websites to have all
>the equipment.

The dev machine is the one you do your work on. The staging and live
machines can be the same physical hardware. Either VirtualHosts or

http://www.domain.com/
http://www.domain.com/newversion/

>What I am trying to accomplish is a function that can contain code blocks,
>like an if statement. Something that would operate like:
>
>developer_execute() {
> execute this code only
>}
>
>Where the function developer_execute would be defined as:
>function developer_execute() {
> if(getenv("REMOTE_ADDR")=="000.000.000.000") {
> %body
> }
>}

If eval()'s no good to you, then this problem is something like #defining
in/out blocks of debug code in C.

if (getenv ('REMOTE_ADDR') == '000.000.000.000') {
define ('TESTING', 1);
} else {
define ('TESTING', 0);
}

if (TESTING) {
echo (5+3);
}