The real "break symbol" of sorts is the interpolator opeator: {}. Anything
in {} PHP will try to evaluate. So, in your example, it would be:
<?php include("../folder/navfile_{$variableA}_{$variableB}.inc"); ?>
This works for arrays, objects, and variables. Quite handy some times.
--Dave
<quote who="Wade Preston Shearer">
> thanks everyone. PHP is my first programing language (besides
> HTML/javascript)... so this is all new to me.
>
> i appreciate your help.
>
> On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 02:52 PM, Tim Blalock wrote:
>
>> why don't you try
>> <?php include("../folder/navfile_".$variableA."_".$variableB.".inc");
>> ?>
>>
>> instead? The reason is that the _ usually denotes a session variable.
>> like
>> _SESSION or _FILE_ or something like that.
>> Tim Blalock
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Behalf Of Wade Preston Shearer
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 2:22 PM
>> To: BYU UUG Post
>> Subject: [uug] break symbol
>>
>>
>> when embedding a PHP variable within a set of PHP code, such...
>>
>> <?php include("../folder/navfile_$variableA_$variableB.inc"); ?>
>>
>>
>> ...i am running into problems. it thinks that the underscore after
>> "variableA" is part of "variableA" and then throwing it out because it
>> doesn't recognize it.
>>
>> i have tried replacing the underscores with periods and dashes and it
>> works, so know that it is simply a problem of PHP thinking that the
>> underscore is part of the variable.
>>
>> so... is there some sort of a "break" character that i need to use to
>> tell it where the variable name ends?
>>
>> ...or is it just not good to use underscores and variables next to
>> each other like that?
>>
>> -wade preston
>>
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