Difference between " & '

[mothra]

I notice that " & ' are both used in php for strings and elements of arrays, etc... is there any difference? Are there situations where the use of one versus the other will cause problems?

Thanks...

[Nightfire]

No difference as far as I know, obviously you can't mix them though, as in $var = "blah'; but I don't know much

[missing-score]

ok, well if you want to include a variable in a string, like the example below

PHP Code:

$variable = 'hello';

echo "Todays word is: $hello"; 


you MUST use double quotes to print the variable.. compare these:

PHP Code:


$variable = 'hello';

// double quotes
echo "Todays word is: $variable";
// prints Todays word is hello

//single quotes
echo 'Todays word is $variable';
// prints Todays word is $variable 


you should always use single quotes unless you are including variables in a string, becuase if you use double quotes, php will look for varibales and insert them... this makes the code slower...

so...

PHP Code:

echo 'Text Without variables in single quotes';

echo "Is better than text without strings in double quotes"; 


[mothra]

That's good to know. I didn't know you could include a variable directly in a string like that. I will probably just stick with single quotes for everything unless I run into some unforeseen problem down the road.

Thanks!

[missing-score]

you know that variables can be included:

PHP Code:


$string = 'Text with '.$variable.' value';

// or even

$string = "Text with ".$variable." value"; 


[mothra]

Yes, concatenation is the way I'm accustomed to doing it. I thought it was kind of neat that variables can be placed directly in the string though.

[Mhtml]

Well, I'm not sure if this is the same as in C but seeing as most things in PHP are I gather it is.

In C 'string' is constant, like str[] and "string" is like char *str (const again) but 'a' will return 96 (I think) and "a" will return a ...

[missing-score]

wow, i never thought of that. Ill have to take a look. thanks.

[Acecool]

' is exact

echo '$hello world';
// $hello world comes out

echo "$hello world";
// world comes out (unless $hello is set)

[SDP2006]

While we are sorta on the subject, what is it called when you do this

PHP Code:

$string = 'Text with '.$variable.' value';

// or even

$string = "Text with ".$variable." value"; 


The periods, that is

[fredmv]

Originally posted by SDP2006
While we are sorta on the subject, what is it called when you do this

PHP Code:

$string = 'Text with '.$variable.' value';

// or even

$string = "Text with ".$variable." value"; 


The periods, that is

String concatenation.