Concatenating Strings

Anon

Just wondering if someone could solve something probably really simple for me.

I'm writing a internet access reporting tool that queries an MS Access database.

I currently store the users names in a MYSql table and the internet logs store the username as domainname\username

Therefore I'm trying to concatenate "warmos-nt\"

with a username $username

however I'm getting an error, I think it's something to do with the \ in the domain name part.

Any ideas how I could concatenate these two strings?

Thanks very much for your time.

Mark

Anon

Where does the error come from?
Did you print the concatenated string to see if it is what you think it is?

Anon

Is returns a parse error for example ;

<body>
<?php

$username = "markfc" ;
echo "Username is $username<BR>" ;

$domainname = "warmos-nt\" ;
echo "Domainname is $domainname<BR>" ;

$searchname = $domainname.$username ;
echo "So the search name should be $searchname<BR>" ;

?>
</body>

If you set $domainname to "warmos-nt"
if work fine it produces warmos-ntmarkfc

though I need to seperate the two with a "\"

so that $searchname = warmos-nt\markfc

Thanks

Anon

the backslash is an "escape" character.
That means that when you do \" you mean to say: treat the quote as a real character, do not interpret it. Thus, PHP skips the quote and assumes your string continues to the next line and up to the next quote.

Try this:
$domainname = "warmos-nt\";

This means the escape character itself gets escaped, and thus treated as a real backslash.

Anon

Excellent !

Thanks very much matey.

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Anon

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