quotation in echo

[Jesper Møller]

Im making my first small PHP script, wher i have to use quotations in some echo funktion but how do i do it
like this one > echo "link["$id"]=$count;\n";

Shud i use " or " around the $id
And do i simply put it in like ["$id"] or ?

:confused:

[vinyl-junkie]

You can use single quotes inside double quotes, or vice versa. It is customary though to use the first option:

echo "link['$id']=$count;\n";

[Jesper Møller]

Thanks ... But every place i read, it say i shud use double quotations in the script ... so It looks like this

link["test1"]=0


So your saying i shall do it like this
> echo 'link["$id"]=$count;\n';

???

[vinyl-junkie]

It doesn't matter. Either way is correct syntax. Just do it whichever way makes the most sense to you.

[GJay]

Variables inside single-quotes won't be parsed though, so either:

$id='test1';
$count=0;
echo "link['$id']=$count";
//link['test1']=0

or

$id='test1';
$count=0;
echo 'link["'.$id.'"]=$count';
//link["test1"]=0

[Jesper Møller]

:) Thank you :)

[Jesper Møller]

When i change it to
echo*'link["'.$id.'"]=$count';
I get a error
Ellegal character
And it ends op looking like this link["tutorials"]=$count;\nlink["centerpage1"]=$count;\n
:confused:

[GJay]

is the * a typo in the post, or actually in your code?
if the latter, then what are you trying to do with it? (pointers??)

[Jesper Møller]

Sorry * is a typo :p

echo'link["'.$id.'"]=$count';

[Jesper Møller]

But think i found out myself :)

echo 'link["' . $id . '"]=' . $count . ';'\n;

Dos that look right :rolleyes:

[GJay]

without the \n yeah, what sort of editor are you using that copies them as text? :|
In my post I took the $id out of the quotes, but completely missed/forgot $count.

[Jesper Møller]

>"In my post I took the $id out of the quotes, but completely missed/forgot $count."

That i figured out ;)


>"without the \n yeah, what sort of editor are you using that copies them as text?"

Well i use GoLive .. But its not GoLive that puts them ther..
Its the first time im trying to make a PHP script, so i have lookd at other script to find out how to make it.
I have found a small hit counter script, that works ok, but it cant display the hits or the total hits of multiple pages, so im trying to make my own script to do that. The script that counts the hit (and other scripts frome the same place) use this

// What type of server is your website on?
// 1 = UNIX (Linux), 2 = Windows, 3 = Machintos
$settings['system']=1;

if($settings['system'] == 2) {$settings['newline']="\r\n";}
elseif($settings['system'] == 3) {$settings['newline']="\r";}
else {$settings['newline']="\n";}

echo "extcount_link[$id]=$count;\n";

so i thougt it shud bee ther :confused:

[Jesper Møller]

Got it to work :)

I used
echo "pcount[\"" . $filename . "\"]=" . $filedata . ";\n";

with ' it simply print what is in the ' '
With " it make \n to a line break