On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Lamp Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi,
> I saw several times that some people use this
>
> $parameters = array(
> 'param1' => "{$_POST["param1"]}",
> 'param2' => "{$_POST["param2"]}"
> );
>
> or
>
> $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE id='{$session_id}'");
>
> I would use:
>
> $parameters = array(
> 'param1' => $_POST["param1"],
> 'param2' => $_POST["param2"]
> );
>
> and
>
> $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE id=' ".$session_id." '
> ");
>
>
> does it really matter? is there really difference or these are just two
> "styles"?
the short answer is yes.
i think you can find a sufficient explanation here,
http://us.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.parsing.simple
and here
http://us.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.parsing.complex
-nathan
