[RESOLVED] . (dot) syntax

david1212

The following appears in the PHP manual.
The url is: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

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Variable parsing

// Works
echo "A banana is " . $fruits['banana'] . ".";

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Can someone help me figure out where the . before the $ is documented.

It is very hard to google a .
I have read alot of material and I haven't found reference to explanations for this.

I am finding it very hard to learn PHP syntax. I don't remember having so much trouble learning other languages.

bradgrafelman

Welcome to PHPBuilder!

The "." (period/dot) is an [man]operator[/man] (just like + or * would be in a mathematical expression). More specifically, it's a string operator (see: [man]operators.string[/man]) called the "concatenation operator" which is used to concatenate two strings together.

EDIT: Also, when posting PHP code, please use the board's [noparse]

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[/noparse] bbcode tags as they make your code much easier to read and analyze.

david1212

Wow, looks like I was not reading as closely as I thought. A nice answer to a stupid question.

Thanks.