On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 15:51 -0500, David Murphy wrote:
> True however K.I.S.S would say , if you can use it like
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> echo “This is a statement {$Blah}.”;
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> echo “This is also a statement {$tBlah[‘BlahKey’]}.”;
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> You should do it so you are always using the same expected format,
> cleaner for readability and training other people to understand how
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> This is my personal thoughts on it, everyone has their own prefs.
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> David
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> From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:43 PM
> To: David Murphy
> Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: how call a variable in a text
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> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 15:40 -0500, David Murphy wrote:
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> This is actually much better the { and } make it very obvious where the variable is and also it can keep odd issues from occurring sometimes.
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> $message="<b> There is a text {$variable} trial. </b> ";
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> There is always sprint type functions also.
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> David
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Ballard [mailto:aballard@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:23 PM
> To: Bulend Kolay
> Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: how call a variable in a text
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> 2009/10/21 Bulend Kolay <bmalik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > I 'll send a mail in html form using php5.
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> > cat send.php
> > <?php
> > $variable="date1" ;
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> > ..
> > $message='
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> > <b> There is a text $variable trial. </b> ';
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> > mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) ; ?>
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> > when I run send.php, I get the mail. But I can't call variable called
> > variable. it comes as string.
> > How can I correct this?
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> You need to use double quotes (or HEREDOC) if you want PHP to replace $variable with its value in the string:
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> <b> There is a text $variable trial. </b> ";
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> <b> There is a text $variable trial. </b> MESSAGE;
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> Andrew
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> The {} only become really useful when you're trying to reference
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> $var = array('great', 'boring');
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> $text = "this is {$var[0]}.";
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> Without the curly braces, PHP wouldn't be able to figure out whether
> you wanted the end string to be 'This is great.' or 'This is [0].'
> despite the variable itself clearly being an array.
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> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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I reckon that part is all down to personal preference. Interesting to
see it works on objects too though. I've not seen that before, I was
always breaking outside of the strings for that type of thing.
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
