Hello Bret, Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 11:43:18 AM, you wrote: B> why wouldn't B> $birthday = "$day.$month.$year"; B> work as well. Because in PHP the unencapsulated period means to concatenate. i.e. $var1 = "Hello"; $var2 = "there"; $var3 = "Bret"; echo $var1 . $var2 . $var3; Would net you: HellothereBret if you put: echo $var1 . " " . $var2 . " " . $var3; You'd get: Hello there Bret So, to put periods in something you have to encapsulate it with quotes. So: echo $var1 . "." . $var2 . "." . $var3; would get you: Hello.there.Bret See? -- Leif (TB lists moderator and fellow end user). Using The Bat! 3.0.2.3 Rush under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 on a Pentium 4 2GHz with 512MB -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
