Re: [PHP] Variables - showing onpage

From: John Nichel (jnichel_at_by-tor.com)
Date: 11/30/03


Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:13:33 -0600
To: Biph <biph69@biph.com>

Biph wrote:

> I have a question, and maybe I'm an idiot (alright not maybe). I can't get
> the damned variables to stop showing their variable names on the screen,
> like a variable $stock_quote appears in the HTML as $stock_quote, what the
> hell am I doing wrong? I'm using Win2K to test a site on my own computer
> using Apache2, but all variables from MySQL to PHP are just showing up as
> the variable name and not the value in the HTML.Any help would be nice.
> example:
> <?php
> $price = 1.00
> print('the price is: $price')
> ?>
> is apprearing as:
> the price is $price
> in the HTML instead of:
> the price is 1.00
>

PHP will not interpret variables inside of single quotes. Use double
quotes, or break out of the quotes...

print("the price is: $price")
print('the price is: ' . $price)

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

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