On Mon, 27 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I know it is probably something obvious but the following gives me a
> parse error and as a newbie I am having trouble locating it.
>
> $query = "select * from news WHERE id = "$_get['id']"";
A lot of people have answered this already, but just for a little more
clarification, consider this:
The reason the computer requires you to surround a string with quotes is
so that it knows where the string begins and ends.
If you put quotes in the middle of the string, it thinks those mark the
end; why would it think otherwise, since that's what quotes are for.
So people have provided you with various solutions for this. Each of them
involve in some way indicating more specifically what's going on. Either
you use a different kind of quotes (if you started the string with single
quotes, it will let you put double quotes inside it without getting
confused, and vice versa), or you use the backslash character before
internal quotes. Backslash is the "escape" character which in this case
tells the parser to ignore the special meaning of the quote that follows.
So your line could have been written in any of the following ways:
$query = "select * from news WHERE id = '{$_get['id']}'";
$query = "select * from news WHERE id = \"{$_get['id']}\"";
$query = 'select * from news WHERE id = "' . $_get['id'] . '"';
miguel
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