Re: [PHP] slashes and quotes

2001-10-18 Thread Richard Baskett
Well basically you would use double quotes whenever you want the data/text in between the quotes to be parsed, so for instance: $name = 'Rick'; echo "My name is $name"; // output = My name is Rick echo 'My name is $name'; // output = My name is $name echo "My name is \"$name\""; // output

[PHP] slashes and quotes

2001-10-18 Thread Peter
Hi, I was looking through some PHP books and scripts on the web and I have noticed different syntax for inputting and outputting data. For example the book PHP essentials used a format of slash and quotations: $sql = "INSERT INTO USER_TRACK VALUES (\"$user_id\", "$sel echo "$user_id"; Anothe