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    <p>I am reading some WordPress plugin code, pardon my french, and even though I have coded a lot of stuff in anything from C to JavaScript, including PHP, I am not sure what kind of logic is accomplished with following:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php function dcontact_options_page() { if($_GET['action'] == 'edit_group') { dcontact_action_edit_group(); return; } elseif($_GET['action'] == 'edit_form') { dcontact_action_form_settings(); return; } elseif(isset($_POST['set_order'])) { $result = dcontact_action_set_order(); } else if(isset($_POST['new_group'])) { $result = dcontact_action_new_group(); } else if($_GET['action'] == 'delete_group') { $result = dcontact_action_delete_group(); } if(!isset($result['message']) &amp;&amp; isset($_GET['message'])) $result['message'] = urldecode($_GET['message']) ?&gt; &lt;div class="wrap"&gt; &lt;div class="icon32" id="icon-options-general"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;!-- More HTML AND PHP code blocks --&gt; &lt;!-- And then suddenly... --&gt; &lt;?php } /// What's this? End of function definition? PHP chokes on this with syntax error. ///... ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>I am no stranger to mixing PHP and verbatim output, and I also did my fair share of entering and exiting PHP blocks in the middle of say <code>if</code> statements, but this tops it. Can anyone explain what the guy was trying to accomplish? Does the code imply that if the <code>if</code> condition evaluates to <code>true</code> then whole lot of markup is written out (and more PHP is executed), <strong>but then</strong> the function definition ends, suddenly? Maybe it's what the function does? I mean, I would have used a <code>HEREDOC</code> syntax for readability.</p> <p>And to sum it up, my command line PHP 5.4.7 preprocessor chokes on the last <code>}</code>. And I can't say I blame it. Haven't seen spaghetti code like this in some time now.</p>
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    1. COHmm that last } is for the function dcontact_options_page() end brace. Wow thats an ugly if set :P
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    2. COAlright, that also crossed my mind. But then I still cannot comprehend what exactly the function does and why do it in such an ugly way (no other way?). My next bet is that he simply decided to do two bad things at once - split an `if` statement *and* a function body in multiple preprocessing directives.
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    3. COA `;` is missing after `$result['message'] = urldecode($_GET['message'])`
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