. is a string concatenation operator. ' or " are strings.
Read http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.string.php
By the way, __LINE__ is available in addition to __FILE__.
Hope that helps, Jason k Larson
Stephen Ford wrote:
Partial success. The code and output are shown below. There are no errors.
What does the ".' '." do pls. Have tried a variety of combinations to see the effect. Nothing to see... :-(
===PHP============== <?php echo "<P>Line #1 ".' '.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], "</P>"; echo "<P>Line #2</P>"; echo "<P>Line #3</P>"; echo "<P>Line #4 ".' '.$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'].' '. $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'].' '. $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."</P>"; echo "<P>Line #5</P>"; echo "<P>Line #6 ", __FILE__,"</P>"; ?>
===IE6 display=============== Line #1
Line #2
Line #3
Line #4
Line #5
Line #6 <Pathname removed for security> ==================
Stephen
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