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The ABC's of PHP Part 5 - Strings & Text
Variable substitution in a string only works with variables.
To use a function you need to use the string concatenation
operator, which in PHP is a full stop '.'
This is different to a lot of languages where a + symbol is
used. PHP still uses a + symbol, but this is only used for
mathematical additions (as we'll see in the next episode).
In order to produce the expected output above, we would then
use the following:
<?php
Print "Todays date is " . date('r');
?>
So why use variable substitution at all?
If you remember from our introduction, PHP was originally
designed as a hypertext pre-processor. Back in the early
days, the first idea was to just embed tags into a text
string, and the pre-processor would then replace those tags
with just the information required. So for example you may
have had:
<?php Print "Todays date is $date"; ?>
And that would have output something similar to:
Todays date is 25/3/09
Today however there are many different ways of achieving
this type of use, and using variable substitution is just a
matter of personal preference.
I often tend to use concatenation, purely because it makes
my code more readable. Bear in mind also that using the
concatenation method also works with single quotes, so:
<?php $var = "Hello world"; Print 'Some text [' . $var . ']'; ?>
Works exactly the same as
<?php $var = "Hello world"; Print "Some text [" . $var . "]"; ?>[ Next Page ]
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