Re: two ?s: '' vs ""; function to post form data

A great tutorial on strings is : http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/using-strings.php Philip -- without php my name would be ili ! On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Matt McClanahan wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Daniel Convissor wrote: > > > Hey Alan: > > > > > 1. I've been reading a few php articles today, and so far I've not come > > > across a clear distinction between variables defined using '' and those > > > using "". I've read those are both strings, but what is the > > > difference? > > > > "It's partly style, but" single quotes don't need escaping > > 'It\'s partly style, but' single quotes in text need escaping > > Another important distinction is that strings in single quotes won't be > parsed, so 'Hello, $name' will be read literally as 'Hello, $name' as > opposed to 'Hello, John'. > > Matt > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >