Double Quotes Broken?

Anon

Hi,

Double quotes are broken in my script. At first I thought it was something in php.ini, but other scripts work fine. In this one script the following doesn't work.

echo "$erro";

But, in the same script, this does work.

echo '' . $error. '';

Lower down I have something like:

$this = "This and $that";

Which doesn't work if I change the echo statement above to the one that works.

What could cause variables inside double quotes to work in some scripts but not in others?

Anon

Does $erro have to be $error in the first instance?

Anon

As Chad noticed, is it a typo or not?

If not, what exactly do you consider to not work??

In other words, what happens if you use the first way exactly (if it's a typo).

Because $error could contain something that makes a mess of your code. E.g.:

$error contains:
"blah"

Your code would dynamically become:
echo ""blah"";

That indeed, results in an error.

So it all depends on a possible typo or the contents of $error...

Anon

Actually, yes, that is a typo in this message, but not in the original program. I found the problem to be this:

My first echo statement was something like:

echo "Hello world';

Then, later on in the program I had another echo statement like:

echo "The world is cruel";

The problem, ultimately, is that the first echo statement starts with double quotes (") and ends with a single quote ('). Since PHP ignores line-breaks and spacing, and since it doesn't do any processing on anything inside of double quotes (except backslash), it thought everything between the first double quote in the first statement and the first double quote in the next statement was part of the quote.

So, it gave an error on the second line, which looked like the following to it:

The world is curel";

Joel

Anon

My first echo statement was something like:
echo "Hello world';
Then, later on in the program I had another echo statement like:
echo "The world is cruel";

So basically what you are saying is, it's the world to blaim ? ;-)))

Glad it works now anyway...