Hi, just did want to let this sink unanswered, but I see that 6 days means quite a lot of messages piled up. Should have answered earlier, but... Anyway, I think I had tried the "\{" or '{"-combinations as well and it didn't work - but I can't remember exactly and can't reproduce now, since I was working on a user's server there. But the way I finally solved this way to first create a string with the entire command and its arguments in it and then eval() the thing... Thanks Michael "Richard Lynch" <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:1463.66.243.145.38.1115865853.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > { } became special characters in PHP strings, at some point... > > You may or may not be able to change a php.ini setting to change that... > I wouldn't have expected it to change from 4.3.10 to 4.3.11, but I don't > really KNOW when it changed. I suck at tracking version numbers and small > changes with them. Swiss cheese memory. > > Or, you should be able to always use \{ inside "" and it should "work" > > You could also change to '' instead of "" and {} would NOT be special > inside ''. > > > > On Wed, May 11, 2005 1:05 am, Michael Baas said: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using imap_open and the script works fine on my server with 4.3.11. > > Now > > as user with 4.3.10 reported that the script does not work. He finally got > > it working by replacing my variable-names in the imap_open-command with > > strings containing exactly the same data (except for the leading slash > > before the { which I was using together with variables). > > > > The statement is > > @imap_open("\{$host}INBOX",$user,$pwd,OP_HALFOPEN); > > and host is "80.243.163.14/pop3". > > I know that /notls can also be appended, but as I said: it works fine when > > entering these directly into the command, just when using the > > string-parameter it fails. > > > > The error is: "imap_open(): Couldn't open stream" > > > > I've spent quite some time now googling around, searching various forums > > etc., but could not find a solution to this. Would appreciate your help > > very > > much! > > > > Thanks > > > > Michael > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > -- > Like Music? > http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php