[FX.php List] Stumbled on something I hadn't realized...

[Joel Shapiro]

Be aware that if you use this in places that need double quotes (e.g.  
in html tags), you'll need to escape the quotes, such as:

echo "<a href=\"page.php?id=$id\">";

Also, supposedly it takes PHP longer to parse through double-quoted  
strings looking for $vars than it does when using single-quoted  
strings and periods, but I think the speed difference is probably  
insignificant -- and since you're already using double-quotes anyway,  
it shouldn't slow things down at all.

-Joel


On Nov 13, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Bob Patin wrote:

> I didn't realize that in PHP you can write
>
> <?php
>
> $string = "Bob";
>
> echo "$string needs to read up on PHP.";
>
> ?>
>
> I've been writing this:
>
> echo $string." needs to read up on PHP.";
>
> It never occurred to me to that you could put variables inside  
> quotes like that and that they'd be echoed back rather than  
> displayed as text...
>
> I've been writing things the hard way all this time... sheesh...
>
> Hopefully this will save someone else some time...
>
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