Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/22/07 20:46

Michaelp wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I see that I can access a superglobal element using the index this
> way:
>
> print("<p>$_GET[surname]</p>"); //(element index without any
> delimiters within a double-quotation-mark-delimited string)
>
> But not this way:
>
> print("<p>$_GET['surname']</p>"); //(apostroph-delimited element index
> within a double-quotation-mark-delimited string)
>
> The latter gives me an error message:
> Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE,
> expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING
>
>
> Why is that? (I cant understand why PHP gets confused by that)
>
> Is this configurable?
>
> Thanks
> Michael
>

Actually, the first should give you a notice, also. But you evidently
have notices disabled.

And no, you can't configure it. Just use curly braces, i.e.

print("<p>{$_GET['surname']}</p>");
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