Re: PHP textbook suggestions?
| From: | Chris Lott | Date: | Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:09:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP textbook suggestions? | ||
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On 4/10/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:
print 'The cost is ' . $cost; NOT print "The cost is $cost"; AND CERTAINLY NOT print ("The cost is $cost"); echo "The cost is ", $cost; If you're going to be this picky, you'd better write your own textbook... :-) Perhaps instead of a textbook, just use http://php.net/manualThe manual is not nearly enough reference for a beginning students. You illustrate the problem with quotes in your example above-- why double quotes with no variable being interpolated? The . is the documented string operator for concatenation... that's one of the reasons I dislike the unneeded parentheses with the print function-- then I have to explain-- before I want to-- arguments to functions, which is necessary to explain the comma. c