[RESOLVED] Stupid Code

LarryK

I'm trying to implement this very basic code to work in the obvious manner on a 4.2x version of php. It doesn't work! Instead of printing out

The value of $x is $637.5
I get a parse error or the value of $x is $x

this is driving me crazy!

What's up - and does it work in 5.x?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtmll/DTD/xhtmll-strict.dtd">

<head>

<title>Order of Precedence</title>

</head>

<body>

<?php

$x = 75;
$x = $x + 30 * $x / 4;
echo '<p>The value of $x is " , $x, " .</p >";

</body>

</html>

bogu

This line:

echo '<p>The value of $x is " , $x, " .</p >";

should return u an error.

Try it like this:

echo '<p>The value of $x is '.$x.'.</p >';

LarryK

Thank you so much! That does work. Do you think the other code would work on a 5.x version? I got the code out of a book so just wondering...

bogu

LarryK wrote:
Thank you so much! That does work. Do you think the other code would work on a 5.x version? I got the code out of a book so just wondering...

As I told u that code should return u an error in any php ves.