Wassup Jose Weblog nonsense at its best!

Can I get an enumeration?

I am assisting an owner (i.e. buyer) of a popular PHP-based social networking platform with query optimization and noticed the following:


{
  $smarty->assign('header', $message[23]);
  $smarty->assign('message', $message[28]);
  $smarty->assign('footer', $message[29]);
}


The above is part of the internationalization support, but I find it odd that the developers did not use a common enumeration versus using magic numbers throughout the code. Let me see, what is the ordinal for that error message ... hmm.