Plz help with variable questions.

[Anon]

I know a bit of perl and PHP, and I am working on a php template that 'require's a php file prints some variables in the appropriate places within the design. In Perl, you can have a variable looking like this:

$hello = qq~Content of the variable. I can use " without having to put a \ infront of it.~;

I'd really like to figure out how to do this with PHP, as my site won't be up until I can get it running 🙁 Please reply asap.

[Anon]

sorry if i dont understand your question well. but i think you want to use " inside the variable values, right?

then use ' for your variable and you can have " inside the contents. e.g.

$var = 'this is the "content" of the var';

[Anon]

Using ' is fine if and only if you don't want to embed variables in the string.
Otherwise, you are indeed stuck with using a backslash to escape the
quote character.

[Anon]

also see addslashes() and stripslashes() in the manual - www.php.net