On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 14:59, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Take for example: > INSERT INTO table ( field ) VALUES ('{$variable}' ) > > Why the curly brackets? Where in the fine manual is this addressed? I > started from [1] but did not find the relevant info. > > [1] http://il2.php.net/manual/en/book.mysql.php That's just basic variable parsing on the PHP side, it's not MySQL-specific. Check out the "variable parsing" heading at http://php.net/string . -- </Daniel P. Brown> UNADVERTISED DEDICATED SERVER SPECIALS SAME-DAY SETUP Just ask me what we're offering today! daniel.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxx || danbrown@xxxxxxx http://www.parasane.net/ || http://www.pilotpig.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php