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Salathe · 04-23-2009, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by allworknoplay

But in PHP you do...

$test = "today\'s a great day";

Do you know if PHP is going to do something like this in the future so we don't have to use backslash if using double quotes?

No you don't. In your example, if you echoed $test, the output would be today\'s a great day, backslash and all.

Look no slashes:

PHP Code:


			
$test = "today's a great day";

allworknoplay · 04-23-2009, 06:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Salathe

No you don't. In your example, if you echoed $test, the output would be today\'s a great day, backslash and all.

Look no slashes:

PHP Code:


			
$test = "today's a great day";

Wow!! I've always thought you had to do that....this is what I mean by fundamentals...and I've read like 50 PHP books and articles....

Anyways, so if you do this, you will get a parse error:

Code:

$test = "<a href="me.html">hey</a>";


echo $test;

So I guess you can't have double quotes within double quotes since the PHP parser doesn't know when to start and end?

<--- Smacks head!!!

I think we need a "smack head" icon....

Kalle · 04-24-2009, 08:37 AM

You only have to escape the type of quotation mark that you are using to define the string with like Salathe said, so you need to escape " if you use double quotation marks for surrounding a string, same for ' :)