Re: {} forms

On 16 November 2011 13:56, Tim Streater <tim@clothears.org.uk> wrote: > I'm looking at the source of a web sockets server and I see these various forms: > >  "ws://{$host}{$path}" >  "HTTP/1.1 ${status}\r\n" > > Are these simply equivalent to: > >  "ws://" . $host . $path >  "HTTP/1.1 " . $status . "\r\n"; > > and if so, is there any particular benefit to using that form? Or if not, what do they mean? > > (I've read up about variable variables). > > Thanks, > > -- > Cheers  --  Tim > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > If you want to embed $array[CONSTANT], then the {} is used. I use {} out of habit for non arrays. Not sure if there is an impact. http://docs.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#example-71 shows the use. Oh. I've fixed the layout bug for http://docs.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#example-70. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend : PHPDoc : Fantasy Shopper @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY : bit.ly/lFnVea : fan.sh/6/370