On 06/07/11 17:33, Robert Williams wrote:
Where I've made most use of heredocs is when I want to do nothing but define a
bunch of
long strings in one file.
I find the most useful thing about heredocs is that they don't care about
quotation marks, so I often use them for SQL statements where
Hi all,
OK. We all know that constants cannot be accessed directly via their name
in double-quoted or heredoc strings. I knew this already but a read of
the PHP manual got me thinking.
The manual states that to get the $$ value of a variable, the form
{${var}} should be used. Therefore, I
On 7/6/2011 7:07 AM, Dave Wilson wrote:
Output - {XYZ}
Attempt 2:
?php
define ('XYZ','ABC');
echo {{XYZ}}\n;
?
Output - {{XYZ}}
No luck there. I did encounter one oddity though:
?php
define ('XYZ','ABC');
echo {${XYZ}}\n;
?
Output:
PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ABC in
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Dave Wilson dai_bac...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
OK. We all know that constants cannot be accessed directly via their name
in double-quoted or heredoc strings. I knew this already but a read of
the PHP manual got me thinking.
The manual states that to get
Any ideas?
echo XYZ . \n;
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Which doesn't answer the original question Dave asked...
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On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:56:21 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote:
My guess is that the preceding $ causes PHP to interpret the next token
{XYZ} as a variable or a constant, but without that preceding $ it has
no way to know you're trying to use a constant. As Curtis points out,
the only way to insert a
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On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:56:21 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote:
My guess is that the preceding $ causes PHP
define('DIR_JAVA', '/js/');
When you need to use the JavaScript directory you can do this.
script src=?php echo DIR_JAVA . 'jquery-1.5.1.js';?/script
There is no true need for the curly brackets to echo out the value of
the constant.
Except for when you're using heredoc, much like in the
Yeah, that was my answer and I was rebuked for that.
ad...@buskirkgraphics.com wrote:
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define('DIR_JAVA', '/js/');
When you need
On 2011-07-6 08:09, ad...@buskirkgraphics.com
ad...@buskirkgraphics.com wrote:
I use constants in my OOP and I never use the heredoc syntax. Now I am
fearing that I have not taken advantage of something.
My understanding of heredoc syntax as of 5.3 is just a string quoting
right?
Is there an
I LOVE the heredocs tool. I only learned about it a couple of months ago -
what a find! It makes generating my html for my web pages so much
easier and allows me to include my php vars within the html with much less
confusion and simplifies the intermixing of html and php vars - no more
On 11-07-06 02:59 PM, Jim Giner wrote:
I LOVE the heredocs tool. I only learned about it a couple of months ago -
what a find! It makes generating my html for my web pages so much
easier and allows me to include my php vars within the html with much less
confusion and simplifies the
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