[PHP] accessing CONSTANTS From: Remco Chang (rkc <email protected>)
Date: 09/30/00

thanx to those who helped me with the question on < and > characters! :)

another question i have is regarding accessing constants. eg,

define ("ADMIN", "admin <email protected>");
echo "send mail to <a href=\"mailto: ADMIN\">admin</a>"

PHP interperts ADMIN as a string... is there anyway to access the value
of a constant?

$ad = ADMIN doesn't do the trick either... it again evaluates ADMIN to be
the string "ADMIN"...

thanx in advance!

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remco chang
bountyquest.com

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Matt McClanahan wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Remco Chang wrote:
>
> > i'm having trouble concatenating strings with the characters '<' and '>'.
> >
> > $msg = "hello";
> > $msg = "<".$msg.">";
> >
> > this doesn't work at all... i would like $msg to be <hello>, but i end up
> > getting an empty string.
> >
> > neither does "<<".$msg.">>" or "\<".$msg."\>" work...
> >
> > i'm stumped, any ideas?
>
> Works fine. But if you echo that to a browser, it'll parse <hello> as a
> tag and display nothing. (Hint: Viewing the html source when debugging is
> almost always useful)
>
> If you want to display '<hello>' in a browser, you'd need to use &lt; and
> &gt; instead of < and >.
>
> $msg = 'hello';
> $msg = "&lt;$msg&gt;";
>
> Matt
>
>
>
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