PHP using Declare ? What is a tick?

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opHASnoNAME picture opHASnoNAME · Mar 14, 2010 · Viewed 13.8k times · Source

I am a little bit confused by the PHP function declare.

What exactly is a single tick? I thought a tick equals one line of code?

But if I use:

function myfunc() {
        print "Tick";   
}

register_tick_function("myfunc");

declare(ticks=1) {
   echo 'foo!bar';
}

The script prints:

"Tick" 2 Times??

Answer

Josh Davis picture Josh Davis · Mar 14, 2010

You get a tick for each line ; and each block {} Try that:

declare(ticks=1) echo 'foo!bar';

No block, no extra tick.

declare(ticks=1) {{ echo 'foo!bar'; }}

More extraneous blocks = more ticks.

PS: by the way, ticks are quite the exotic feature and they're only useful in a few extremely rare situations. They are not equivalent to threading or anything. If, for you, ticks are the solution to a problem then you should post about your problem in another question because it's probably not the right solution to it.

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