Is this PHP or Perl? Please help.

[brucec]

I have just taken over a programming project from a co-worker and I believe this line:

$item =& Entity::forId('Item', $_GET['id']);

is either PHP or Perl, but I am not entirely sure. Can somebody help me out here?

Is this Object-Oriented Perl or some king of PHP library or what?

I appreciate your help.

[Da_riPPer]

It would seem to be PHP... cause of the syntax... but

[edited by: Da_riPPer at 8:36 pm (utc) on Oct. 17, 2005]

[Da_riPPer]

But it is not, seein as there is no function in php
"forId" that they use in this code. So i'm betting on perl, seeing that perl has such a method.

[sned]

This is indeed php .. the Entity::forID() syntax is used with PEAR objects. I'm not sure if it is used elsewhere, but very well could be :)

(Obvious question, but what is the extension of the file that the string is found in?)

-sned

[coopster]

I would agree that this looks like PHP. The double colon is a Scope Resolution Operator (::) [php.net] that allows access to static, constant, and overridden members or methods of a class.

[JamShady]

It is most definately PHP. Entity is just a static object (indicating PHP 5 code)