Yeah, that was my answer and I was rebuked for that.
ad...@buskirkgraphics.com wrote:
>> -----Original
Message-----
>>
From: Dave Wilson
[mailto:dai_bac...@hotmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 06,
2011 10:11 AM
>> To: php-general@lists.php.net
>>
Subject: Re: [PHP] Constants in strings
>>
>> On
Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:56:21 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote:
>> >
My guess is that the preceding $ causes PHP to interpret the next
>> token
>> > "{XYZ}" as a variable or a
constant, but without that preceding $ it
>> has
>>
> no way to know you're trying to use a constant. As Curtis points
out,
>> > the only way to insert a constant into a string is
through
>> > concatenation.
>> >
>>
> -Stuart
>>
>> OK. I should have made myself
clearer - I was making an observation
>> with
>>
regards to constant parsing in strings rather than looking for advice.
>> My
>> bad.
>>
>> My third
example showed that "{${XYZ}}" would echo the value of the
>> variable called the value of XYZ:
>> <?php
>> define ('XYZ','ABC');
>>
>>
$ABC="huh!";
>>
>> echo
"{${XYZ}}\n";
>> ?>
>> Output - huh!
>>
>> We could easily re-write the 'echo' line above to
be:
>> echo "{${constant('XYZ'}}\n";
>>
>> But my example shows that PHP *is* accessing the value of a
constant
>> without any jiggery-pokery or hacks (e.g.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/
>>
language.types.string.php#91628) as it is retrieving the value of ABC
>> from the XYZ constant and then looking for a variable of that
name.
>>
>> I admit that I'm no C coder but it may
be possible (note, the word
>> "may")
>>
that a change of code within the PHP source tree will allow us to use
>> something like echo "{{XYZ}}" to access the constant
value.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
Dave
>>
>>
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> define('DIR_JAVA', '/js/');
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> When you need to
use the JavaScript directory you can do this.
> <script
src="<?php echo DIR_JAVA .
'jquery-1.5.1.js';?>"></script>
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There is no true need for the curly brackets to echo out the value of
the
> constant.
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