RE: [PHP] String concatenation

> The reason there are two methods is because up to PHP3, the in-line > string concatenation was unreliable, e.g.: > echo "Hello, this is $mystring"; > would work fine, but > echo "Hello, $myArray["this element"] is an element of my array"; > would not, because the first " mark after the [ would terminate the > echo, and cause a parse error. In PHP 4 you avoid that problem using > the syntax: Of course, you could always do: echo "Hello, $myArray[this element] is an element of my array"; and eliminate the quotes within the []'s all together. I do this *all* the time. > This works, but many people (including me), thinks this looks MORE > confusing than the alternative: > echo "Hello, " . $myArray["this element"] . " is an element of my > array"; I use interpolation almost everywhere. However, there are a few times when I need to do the above and it is almost always when I'm concatinating the result of a function. An example would be: echo "We found " . @mysql_num_rows( $result ) . " record(s).<br>\n"; or echo "Todays date is: " . date( "F d, Y" ) . "<br>\n"; HTH Chris