An Odd Question

[SmEdD]

I can't seem to find any good awnsers but what does the @ symbol do in PHP

Example:

PHP Code:

@fsockopen 


And another one if anyone has a link to a guide to use stuff like this is.

Example:

PHP Code:

 $pattern = "(:\s*url\s*\([\s\"'`]*([\w:?=@&\/#._;-]+)"; 


[Marco van Herwaarden]

1. It will supress any error messages in that function.
Error Control Operators

2. Search documentation for RegEx or "Regular Expressions"
(Regular Expression Functions (Perl-Compatible) / Pattern Syntax / Pattern Modifiers / POSIX-extended regex functions)