What does = @$variable do?

[Marcus]

I am curious what "@" is doing in this declaration:

$variable = (string)@$this->_params['posts'][@$postId]['setting']

 

[Jeremy]

The @ symbol when used in PHP will hide any errors or warnings that occur because of that specific statement.

 

[Terry Harvey]

What King Kovifor said. Although it's generally considered bad practice.

 

[rellek]

However, it's the easiest way to make old (or crappy) software like Joomla 1.x work without raising errors in PHP 5.3+.

Btw @Marcus, where did you get this line from?

 

[twhiting9275]

However, it's the easiest way to make old (or crappy) software like Joomla 1.x work without raising errors in PHP 5.3+.

actually, the easiest way is to use ini to set display_errors to 0 , but yeah, for most that's going to be the easiest way

 

[Chris D]

I think it has valid usage.

XenForo uses it in a few places.