Posted by "Mark Rees" on 09/02/05 12:27

> Ross wrote:
> > <a href="<? echo $PHP_SELF,'?','&action=something' ?>">do somehthing</a>
> >
> > this seems to work but can someone explain the syntax to me what does a
'?'
> > and a ',' do in PHP?
> >
> > I thought you joined strings with a full stop '.' (a period if you are
from
> > the US).
>

There was a long thread on this only yesterday, under the heading "String
format problem". The online archives will carry it shortly, if they don't
already, and it is well worth a read, especially the post by Satyam


> You are passing multiple parameters to the 'echo' language construct.
> The '?' is just a string, and is interpreted just like any other string
> in PHP. That will print out the value of $PHP_SELF followed by
> ?&action=something
>
> By the way, you really shouldn't have register_globals turned on. And
> you also really shouldn't top-post.
>
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