Re: What are the curly brackets around variables in SQL statements for?

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 22:27, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote: > the single quote is not part of the variable name in the example you posted > and further more the curly braces won't be evaluated as part of a variable > name unless the string expression is wrapped in double quotes (which probly > also evaluates in heredocs & nowdocs).  in this case, i would say you are > right, the curly braces seem gratuitous; again as dan suggested, read the > docs for clarification ... > > http://us.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.parsing Thanks, Nathan, I _just_finished_ reading that page! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com