Posted by Richard Lynch on 03/08/05 20:06

James Williams wrote:
> rory walsh wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me if there is a difference between double quotes and
>> single quotes? Cheers,
>> Rory.
>
> What's up Rory... actually there *is* a difference. Double quotes are
> parsed by the php engine, meaning it goes through and finds variables
> and stuff which it can parse, ex. print("Here is a variable:
> $variable!"); will print "Here is a variable: The value of the variable!"
>
> Single quotes are not parsed by the php engine, so the same code with
> single quotes (print('Here is a variable: $variable!'); will return
> "Here is a variable: $variable!" I hope that answeres your question

This is not quite 100% correct.

PHP still parses single quotes, but only replaces two (2) special
character combinations:

\' turns into '
\\ turns into \

The point is that you still might want to embed an apostrophe in single
quotes, and so you use \ for that, and you might want to embed \ so you
use \ for that as well.

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