NYCPHP Meetup

[David Mintz]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Michael Southwell wrote:

>
> There are three ways to accomplish what you are trying to do:
> 1. concatenate:  echo "The $variable is " . $array['elementName'];
> 2. use curly brackets: echo "The $variable is {$array['elementName']}";
> 3. NOT RECOMMENDED BUT USUALLY WORKS:  don't use the single quotation
> marks: echo "The $variable is $array[elementName]";
>
> It is a matter of personal preference whether you choose 1 or 2; both
> work and are fine.  #3 causes extra work for PHP and can fail if
> elementName happens to be a constant; so it should not be used.

Are you sure? I thought PHP does not try to evaluate constants within
double-quoted strings. Therefore it is a little weird-looking (because it
look inconsistent with our good quoting practices) but nevertheless
perfectly kosher to do #3.

Or am I wrong about that?


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