losing the string when i use " things

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$string="form of words from an input box";
$string=urlencode($string);
$url="http://www.domain.com/query?string=$string";

is fine no problems there

but when i try

$string="form of words from an input box";
$string=urlencode($string);
$url="http://www.domain.com/query?string=\"$string\"";

i lose the $string in the $url

how do i code it so I can encapsulate my $string inside" (quotes) ?

cheers if you can help 🙂

[bernouli]

$url="http://www.domain.com/query?string=\"".$string."\""; 

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bernouli, cheers for that.

[Jesteruk]

$url = 'http://www.domain.com/query?string="'.$string.'"';

If you're jumping out of the quotes to include the var, you may aswell use single quotes. Using single quotes saves you have to escape " all the time, but if you use single quotes you have to remember to escape '