Re: Hashes in strings

Hi, > I would suggest not to use $hash[var1][var2] instead of > $hash['var1']['var2'] because afaik php will think u mean two constants > ( var1 and var2 ). > Just if it doesnt find these constants it will use them as > $hash['var1']['var2']. Thats correct, php will think they are constants and upon not finding them will send up a low priority error (I think its of E_NOTICE). Appologies for sloppy coding (must remember to be more awake). $hash['var1']['var2'] is much better, safer, more compatable and faster (marginally - as it doesnt have to check for constants of that name). As an extra note, (and this of personal desire rather than coding standards), I would always break out of a string to insert variables. Personally it just highlights the dynamic parts of string creation. eg: = "Name: ".$user->name." is age ".$user->age.". ".(($user- >birthday==$today)?"Happy Birthday!")."<br />"; but thats getting out of the scope of the question heh -- Dan Hardiker [dhardiker@staff.firstcreative.net] ADAM Software & Systems Engineer First Creative Ltd