Re: array limits in echo function?

Hi Miguel, I'm reading the manual as of this moment. Thank you for saying "RTFM" so very nicely! I guess I've used "$fname $lname" before, and just forgot at this point. Cheers, Laurie "Miguel Cruz" <mnc@stoic.net> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0204082330030.3884-100000@stoic.net... > On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, lmlweb wrote: > > I'm just curious: > > > > if I use within my html codes: > > > > <?php echo $fname $lname; ?>, I get an error message telling me: > > > > Parse error: parse error, expecting ','' or > > ';'' > > > > However, if I take out one of the variables so that it reads <?php echo > > $lname; ?> it works. > > > > Has it always been this way? I never noticed before, as I'm quite the > > newbie. If so, how do I best combine the two (other than having to create > > two separate <?php..?> codes in the HTML)? > > Syntax is not random. > > echo wants to be fed a comma-separated list of arguments. This is very > clearly described in the manual (http://php.net/echo) and should not be > difficult to figure out. > > So you can sent it a variable: > > echo $fname; > > Or you can send it a string: > > echo "Hello"; > > Or you can send it a string that contains some variables: > > echo "$fname $lname"; > > Or you can send it a bunch of variables and strings: > > echo $fname, ' ', $lname; > > The manual is your friend. > > miguel >