One thing to note is that constants are not looked for
within strings. So:
// This is okay but can cause confusion. No errors
// are created but many prefer not to do this.
$str = "Hello $there[friend], how are you?";
Outside of a string, $there[friend] will indeed seek
a constant named friend first:
// This is not okay but may or may not work as expected
// and will create an error of level E_NOTICE if the
// constant friend does not exist. So don't do this.
$str = $there[friend];
The preferred methods are as follows:
// Use of {} here won't work in PHP3 (iirc)
$str = "Hello {$there['friend']}, how are you?";
// Concatenation is always a possability
$str = 'Hello ' . $there['friend'] . ', how are you?';
Related resources:
http://www.php.net/en/language.types.string.php
http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/using-strings.php
Regards,
Philip Olson
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Dan Hardiker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I would suggest not to use $hash[var1][var2] instead of
> > $hash['var1']['var2'] because afaik php will think u mean two constants
> > ( var1 and var2 ).
> > Just if it doesnt find these constants it will use them as
> > $hash['var1']['var2'].
>
> Thats correct, php will think they are constants and upon not finding them
> will send up a low priority error (I think its of E_NOTICE). Appologies for
> sloppy coding (must remember to be more awake).
>
> $hash['var1']['var2'] is much better, safer, more compatable and faster
> (marginally - as it doesnt have to check for constants of that name). As an
> extra note, (and this of personal desire rather than coding standards), I
> would always break out of a string to insert variables. Personally it just
> highlights the dynamic parts of string creation.
>
> eg: = "Name: ".$user->name." is age ".$user->age.". ".(($user-
> >birthday==$today)?"Happy Birthday!")."<br />";
>
> but thats getting out of the scope of the question heh
>
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