Sorry! Actually I always use the opposite form (external double quotes). This works, and I think is the most legible of all proposed forms: $d = "foo" ; $query = " SELECT a FROM b WHERE c = '{$d}' " ; Ignatius ____________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Wong" <phplist@gremlins.com.hk> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 7:33 PM Subject: Re: Output errors > On Wednesday 23 October 2002 01:29, Ignatius Reilly wrote: > > > $image does not interpolate (surrounded by single quotes) > > > > You must write: > > > > else { echo '<p><img src="{$image}" width="201" > > height="160"></p></td>'; } > > > > It is good hygiene to brace variables in somehow complicated statements > > like these. Keeps life easier. > > You're still using single-quotes, so it still wouldn't work! > > Try any one of these: > > echo "<p><img src=\"$image\" width=\"201\" height=\"160\"></p></td>"; > echo "<p><img src=\"{$image}\" width=\"201\" height=\"160\"></p></td>"; > echo '<p><img src="' . $image . '" width="201" height="160"></p></td>'; > > -- > Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk > Open Source Software Systems Integrators > * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * > > > /* > You will inherit millions of dollars. > */ > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php