constants and [][] in "'s

[Anon]

OK, call me lazy but is there a way to have constants and associative arrays (with more than one set of []'s) parsed in strings enclosed by "'s? ie.

define('SOME_STUFF', 'xyz');

$stuff['abc']['xyz'] = 'pdq';

// Doesn't work
$string = "SOME_STUFF and $stuff[abc][xyz]";

// Works
$string = SOME_STUFF . ' and ' . $stuff['abc']['xyz'];

[[deleted]]

No. You'll have to stop being lazy. 🙂

Quotes exist to define strings. That's their sole purpose in life. The fact that PHP lets you put strings inside quotes is bad enough.

So if you put a constant between quotes, how is PHP supposed to know that you mean the constant and not a string that has the same characters as the contstant? And how is PHP supposed to know that you want to print an element from a 3d array, and not an element from a 2d array followed by '['?

[dannys]

Constants cannot be within quotes. Nothing you can do to get around it.

As for the array, you can enclose that in { }.

Example:

$string=SOME_STUFF." and {$stuff[abc][xyz]}";

HTH

[Anon]

Can't it all be magic? :-P

What's so bad about PHP letting you put variables inside of strings? I always use ''s except when I need to print variables in strings and don't feel like typing morris code ''.''.''.''''.''.''.''''.'';

;-)

[[deleted]]

It's bad because you quickly lose control over what's a var, what's a string, and what's a combination of the two.

You end up using {} signs, and backslashes to escape the bits that you don't want.

And then I'm not even starting about the readability of that code.
'Morse' code may be more work to type, but it is one hell of alot more readable. Expecially when syntax highlighting is on.