Re: Trying to create a comment function (RESOLVED)

Asher and Jonathan, Thank you for your input. Having single quotes around what I wanted to comment worked to display a variable name. And Asher, I am constantly scanning the php.net manual, and only after I could not find what I was looking for did I resort to php-general list. I am a novice at php, and I don't quite have the familiarity with terms and such to always find what I'm looking for, or the experience to always know I have indeed found what I was looking for. I am learning php vis php.net, a PHP and MySQL for Dummies book, and you fine people on the php-general list. Additionally, I need things spelled out for me for them to stick, and I don't have the luxury of asking someone for help who can show in person like some have had the fortune to have handy when they were learning. I imagine that there are many who learned as I am, however, seeing as how scripting and coding is by definition a pioneering endeavour. Thank you all for the tons of help you have provided, and please bear with me as I learn. My goal by asking questions of you all is not to get out of doing any work or research, it's to get myself over the little hangups so I can proceed with the learning process. Stay tuned for more 'newbie' questions! On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Jonathan Tapicer <tapicer@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > [code] > > > > comment("test of $newComment"); > > > > [/code] > > > > This rendered a comment that said "test of ". > > > > So I added a \ before the $ to make it display properly, but I was > wondering > > if there was a way that the function could work so that it will display > > anything you type within the quotes in comment(" "). > > > > If you want the string to be rendered as it is without variable > replacements you can use single quotes, like this: > > comment('test of $newComment'); > > That will render exactly this: > > test of $newComment > > Hope that helps you. > > Jonathan >