Here's a little function I wrote today because I needed to be able to turn a list of between one and three items into a string like 'apples, oranges, and pears', 'apples and pears', or just 'stairs'.

I figured I might as well handle everything in one place, and throw in the option to have an 'or' instead of an 'and'. There may be occasions you don't want the Oxford comma, but I can't think of any.


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Many programmers from beyond the realm of PHP, deep in the black country where the dragons reside, whinge like an Australian swim-coach about PHP's loose variable typing. Many PHP developers either don't know what this means or don't care. I didn't much care, until recently, where I got a practical lesson in why loose typing can, on ocassion, really suck.

Here are some interesting effects of PHP's loose typing: