Posted by Colin Fine on 10/06/06 16:36

sk wrote:
> According to zend.com
>
> Double and single quoted strings are handled differently by PHP. Double
> quoted strings are interpreted while single quoted strings are treated
> exactly as written. For example:
>
> $foo = 2;
> echo "foo is $foo"; // this prints: foo is 2
> echo 'foo is $foo'; // this prints: foo is $foo
> echo "foo is $foo\n"; // this prints: foo is 2 (with a new-line)
> echo 'foo is $foo\n'; // this prints: foo is $foo\n
>
> I can not get this to work.
>

And we're all supposed to guess in what way it doesn't work?

I'm sorry if this sounds crabby, sk, but it is a bugbear of mine at work
as well as here.

'I can't get this to work' is as much use as 'My car won't go'.

PLEASE, if you ask for assistance, give people the information they need
to render assistance: tell them
- what you did
- what happened (including what you saw)
- what system/context you were in
- what you expected, if it is not obvious.

</lecture>

Colin

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