"Ashley Sheridan" <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1231962521.3613.13.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 11:17 -0500, MikeP wrote: >> Hello, >> I am trying to get the following to work: >> "Select Netid from Users where Netid = '$_SESSION[phpCAS][user]'" >> Netid is a string type. >> No matter where of if I put the quotes, I still get array[phpCAS] not the >> value. >> If there is anything I still have trouble with after all these years its >> quoting variables. >> Help? >> Thanks >> Mike >> >> >> > I always go with this: > > "Select Netid from Users where Netid = '{$_SESSION[phpCAS][user]}'" > > The curly braces allow PHP to use the full variable you intended. Note > that you may need single quote marks around the text in each square > bracket block or PHP my give you a warning about an unintended string > literal. > > > Ash > www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > even though it might have it's drawbacks I've never had a problem with concat for sql statements. $sqlstmt = "Select Netid from Users where Netid = '" . $_SESSION['phpCAS']['user']} . "'"; Frank -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
