Uplifted Comma in Text?

[bjblackmore]

Hi,
I've come across a small problem, when writing html text in a php page, if I use an uplifted comma ('), I get parse errors, If I want to write...the user's information. the ' in user's will give me a parse error.
I assume this is because the php thinks the html is being stopped, and php is starting again. How do I get around this? How about if I use <? & ?> to start stop code, instead of ' & '; would that help?
Many Thanks
Ben Blackmore

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the "uplifted comma" is called a single-quote, and they work just like normal quotes. They don't stop or start PHP, only strings.

If you get a parse error because of a single-quote, chances are you are doing something like this:

echo 'hello, here's my string';

Which makes no sense whatsoever.

Instead you have to tell PHP that you really mean to print the single-quote character, by escaping it with a backslash:

echo 'hello, here\'s my string';

or by using double quotes around the string

echo "hello, here's my string";

and if you wanted to print double quotes you could do this:

echo "I want to \"quote\" me string";
or
echo 'I want to "quote" my string';