Re: [PHP] MySQL - field names From: David Robley (huntsman <email protected>)
Date: 08/15/00

On 15 Aug, o.cook <email protected> wrote:
> Calling them in this way *seems* to be causing problems. For example:
>
> echo "<br>".$rs['type'];
>
> works correctly, whereas,
>
> echo "<br>$rs['type']";
>
> results in this error:
>
> Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or
> `T_NUM_STRING' in /path/to/file.php3 on line 9
>
> replacing $rs['type'] for $rs[0] (as before) makes both work.
>
> Am I missing something here? :)
>
> Ollie

Nope - that's expected behaviour. One of the developers can probably put
it better, but its a case of only simple variables being expanded in a
double quoted string. You need to concateneat complex variables with
strings as in your first example.

Cheers 

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