Re: Is there an alternative to double quotes?

You can also try: print "<form action=\"registertest.php\" method=\"post\"> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"fname\" value=\"$fname\">"; Notice that you don't have to leave the quotes to print a variable if you use double quotes. If you use single quotes, it will assume a literal string and you will have to leave the quotes to use a variable. You can also try the "here document" method like: print <<<END Here you can type all the "'s you want and it's not going to matter. "'"'"'''"""""'' This will go on until it hits a new line that has exactly END; See, like this: END; Try it out. Dean "Matt Schroebel" <MSchroebel@hsus.org> wrote in message news:D4DB668A680B2549AE977FB0B193E2E80373CE@email.hsus.org... You can do: echo '<form action="registertest.php" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="fname" value="' . $fname .'">'; Not as clean but works ... and gets messy if you need a lot of newlines. > -----Original Message----- > From: Glen Lee Edwards [mailto:glen@fcwm.org] > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 10:08 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Is there an alternative to double quotes? > > > PERL has an alternative to using double quotes if you have to > print one > or several lines that contain numerous double quotes: > > print qq(<form action="registertest.php" method="post"> > <input type="hidden" name="fname" value="$fname">); > > The qq() function allows you to use double quotes, and still allows > variable interpolation. Does PHP have a similar function, or > do I have > to backslash all double quotes all the time? > > Regards, > > Glen