[RESOLVED] Quick Variable Question

[spudmurf2k]

Hi guys,

I'm just wondering why this

$query = "SELECT * FROM slides WHERE slide_id = $_SESSION['currentslide'];"

doesn't work. I thought the double quotes were supposed to enumerate any variables inside them, i.e. $_SESSION['currentslide']. Instead I get the "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING" error.

Its just a trivial thing, as its annoying concatenating all the parts of a mysql query together!

Thanks in advance.

[thorpe]

your missing the closing ; + array elements need to be surrounded in {}. so...

$query = "SELECT * FROM slides WHERE slide_id = {$_SESSION['currentslide']};";

[spudmurf2k]

ah, I was forgetting the curly braces, thanks very much.

(I just didn't put the semi-colon on the page, I'm not that bad!! ;-))