Re: A Real PHP problem for a change...

> That said, (Now on to actual PHP) I've noticed (in my own scripting) and a > few other problems posted here quite a bit of confusion with PHP's single ' > and double " quotes. Reading the material I was led to believe that > ' ' outputs exactly what is in the quotes and > " " outputs variables and strings (etc..) > Thus I become radically confused by this recent comment to use '"$uname"'. > And furthermore the solutions to one of my MySql query problems being adding > single quotes ' ' to all the variables. Now by my understanding, thats not > supposed to work. However, being PHP what it is.. I wasn't suprised. > (There's some open-source commentary for ya'.) Perhaps I am now thinking, > these quotes have diffrent meanings when applied in MySql queries, and > perhaps other DB types. (I haven't really been paying attention to any > other database tytpe fodder.) And furthermore, does thje function of the ' > and " change in other commands? I could really use a complete description > on this. Perhaps a link to some long overdue resource I should have read > months ago before I designed my current project? You are confusing PHP stuff and database stuff. '...' prints ... literally regardless of what ... is So, whoever suggested to use '"$uname"' was on drugs However, if you have something like this: mysql_query("insert into blah values ('$uname',$age)"); It is still quite consistent. Variables get expanded inside double quotes in PHP. single quotes inside a double-quoted string are just like any other character to PHP. MySQL expects strings to be surrounded by single quotes in all queries. This has nothing to do with PHP. -Rasmus