Posted by Leif Gregory on 03/01/05 21:05

Hello Bret,

Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 11:43:18 AM, you wrote:
B> why wouldn't
B> $birthday = "$day.$month.$year";
B> work as well.


Because in PHP the unencapsulated period means to concatenate.

i.e.

$var1 = "Hello";
$var2 = "there";
$var3 = "Bret";

echo $var1 . $var2 . $var3;

Would net you:

HellothereBret

if you put:

echo $var1 . " " . $var2 . " " . $var3;

You'd get:

Hello there Bret


So, to put periods in something you have to encapsulate it with
quotes. So:

echo $var1 . "." . $var2 . "." . $var3;

would get you:

Hello.there.Bret


See?


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