RE: [PHP] HTML lists & PHP

> -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Schwarzmann [mailto:pschwar@jhmi.edu] > Sent: 28 January 2002 22:02 > > I keep getting parse error with this code: > ($teams[] is a big array that I got by using mysql_fetch_array) > > > $r = "game"; > echo "<select name='game'>"; > echo "<option value=game1>$teams[$r.'1']</option>"; > echo "<option value=game1>$teams[$r.'16']</option>"; > echo "</select>"; This really is a faq: if you want to substitute anything other than a simple variable name into a double-quoted string, you MUST use curly braces {} to delimit it. So: echo "<option value=game1>${teams[$r.'1']}</option>"; is what you need. (Note: I also treat variable names including underlines _ as being not simple, as I've had cases where PHP seems to parse these incorrectly -- for example, "...$long_name..." is treated as "...${long}_name...", not "...${long_name}...".) If you have any doubts, include the {} -- even for simple variables, it does no harm to write, for example "...${var}...". I do sometimes wonder whether the {} should be made mandatory in some future version, even for simple variables, to avoid exactly this kind of confusion. Cheers! Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services, JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom Email: m.ford@lmu.ac.uk Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211