what am I doing wrong

[hougie40@hotmail.com]

Im a vb guy trying to figure out some php.

For some reason it wont let me append these together.

$variable = "test";

echo "c:\websites\me nu\" . $variable;

dont understand...pl ease help.

[Dikkie Dik]

Re: what am I doing wrong

hougie40@hotmai l.com wrote:[color=blue]
> Im a vb guy trying to figure out some php.
>
> For some reason it wont let me append these together.
>
> $variable = "test";
>
> echo "c:\websites\me nu\" . $variable;
>
> dont understand...pl ease help.
>[/color]
Is the second quote seen as escaped by the backslash? Maybe it will echo
"c:\\websites\\ menu\\" . $variable

Best regards

[Aphrael]

Re: what am I doing wrong

hougie40@hotmai l.com a écrit :[color=blue]
> Im a vb guy trying to figure out some php.
>
> For some reason it wont let me append these together.
>
> $variable = "test";
>
> echo "c:\websites\me nu\" . $variable;
>
> dont understand...pl ease help.[/color]

Ho, you do tell him to consider the final " as a text " instead of the
end of the string... (\ is the escape caracter...)

You just need to tell him it is the \ you want to escape... echo
"c:\websites\me nu\\" . $variable;

By the way, isn't variable a reserved word ?

Aphrael...
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[Geoff Berrow]

Re: what am I doing wrong

I noticed that Message-ID:
<1127146813.563 664.109190@g43g 2000cwa.googleg roups.com> from
hougie40@hotmai l.com contained the following:
[color=blue]
>$variable = "test";
>
>echo "c:\websites\me nu\" . $variable;[/color]

The backslash is the escape character. For it to be a literal backslash
you have to escape it with...uh...a backslash.

echo "c:\\websites\\ menu\\" . $variable;

Or you could do

echo "c:\\websites\\ menu\\$variable ";
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[Paul Herber]

Re: what am I doing wrong

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:37:08 +0100, Geoff Berrow
<blthecat@ckdog .co.uk> wrote:
[color=blue]
>I noticed that Message-ID:
><1127146813.56 3664.109190@g43 g2000cwa.google groups.com> from
>hougie40@hotma il.com contained the following:
>[color=green]
>>$variable = "test";
>>
>>echo "c:\websites\me nu\" . $variable;[/color]
>
>The backslash is the escape character. For it to be a literal backslash
>you have to escape it with...uh...a backslash.
>
>echo "c:\\websites\\ menu\\" . $variable;[/color]

or put a bit less stress on the server

echo 'c:\websites\me nu\' . $variable;


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[Chung Leong]

Re: what am I doing wrong

Need to escape backslashes in PHP. Try echo "c:\\websites\\ menu\\" .
$variable.

[JDS]

Re: what am I doing wrong

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:20:13 -0700, hougie40@hotmai l.com wrote:
[color=blue]
> For some reason it wont let me append these together.
>
> $variable = "test";
>
> echo "c:\websites\me nu\" . $variable;
>
> dont understand...pl ease help.[/color]

Blame it on Microsoft

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[badr]

Re: what am I doing wrong

actullay no need for blaming any 1
the correct way is
- to escape the last backslash:
$var="test";

echo "C:\web\menu\\" .$var;
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the optimum solution for the case is :
$var='test'; //singl qoutes
echo 'C:\web\menu\\' .$var; //singl qoutes

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in double qutes PHP will seek for some varaiable inluded with a string
so in first solution you may make it like :

$var="test";

echo "C:\web\menu\\$ var";