Hi,
Tuesday, September 9, 2003, 2:03:34 PM, you wrote:
mb> Hi everyone,
mb> Could somebody please explain to me the difference
mb> between single quotes and double quotes in PHP. It
mb> seems like they can be used interchangeably a lot in
mb> PHP but not always. For example:
mb> This works:
mb> header('Location: http://somedomain.com')
mb> This does not work:
mb> header('Location: $url')
mb> This works:
mb> header("Location: $url")
mb> Why??? Sorry if this has been asked before, but I
mb> didn't find a suitable answer in the archives. TIA.
mb> Mike
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PHP will not parse single quoted strings but will do for double quoted
strings. So if you don't need it to do $val substitution or "\n" type
stuff use single quotes.
You can always use the dot operator (.) to mix quotes and variables like this:
echo '<table border="1" width="'.$width.'">'."\n";
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regards,
Tom
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