what am I doing wrong

[hougie40]

Im a vb guy trying to figure out some php.

For some reason it wont let me append these together.

$variable = "test";

echo "c:\websites\menu\" . $variable;

dont understand...please help.

[Dikkie Dik]

ho******@hotmail.com wrote:

Im a vb guy trying to figure out some php.

For some reason it wont let me append these together.

$variable = "test";

echo "c:\websites\menu\" . $variable;

dont understand...please help.

Is the second quote seen as escaped by the backslash? Maybe it will echo
"c:\\websites\\menu\\" . $variable

Best regards

[Aphrael]

ho******@hotmail.com a écrit :

Im a vb guy trying to figure out some php.

For some reason it wont let me append these together.

$variable = "test";

echo "c:\websites\menu\" . $variable;

dont understand...please help.

Ho, you do tell him to consider the final " as a text " instead of the
end of the string... (\ is the escape caracter...)

You just need to tell him it is the \ you want to escape... echo
"c:\websites\menu\\" . $variable;

By the way, isn't variable a reserved word ?

Aphrael...
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[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID:
<11**********************@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups .com> from
ho******@hotmail.com contained the following:

$variable = "test";

echo "c:\websites\menu\" . $variable;

The backslash is the escape character. For it to be a literal backslash
you have to escape it with...uh...a backslash.

echo "c:\\websites\\menu\\" . $variable;

Or you could do

echo "c:\\websites\\menu\\$variable";
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[Paul Herber]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:37:08 +0100, Geoff Berrow
<bl******@ckdog.co.uk> wrote:

I noticed that Message-ID:
<11**********************@g43g2000cwa.googlegroup s.com> from
ho******@hotmail.com contained the following:

$variable = "test";

echo "c:\websites\menu\" . $variable;

The backslash is the escape character. For it to be a literal backslash
you have to escape it with...uh...a backslash.

echo "c:\\websites\\menu\\" . $variable;

or put a bit less stress on the server

echo 'c:\websites\menu\' . $variable;
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[Chung Leong]

Need to escape backslashes in PHP. Try echo "c:\\websites\\menu\\" .
$variable.

[JDS]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:20:13 -0700, ho******@hotmail.com wrote:

For some reason it wont let me append these together.

$variable = "test";

echo "c:\websites\menu\" . $variable;

dont understand...please help.

Blame it on Microsoft

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[badr]

actullay no need for blaming any 1
the correct way is
- to escape the last backslash:
$var="test";

echo "C:\web\menu\\".$var;
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the optimum solution for the case is :
$var='test'; //singl qoutes
echo 'C:\web\menu\\'.$var; //singl qoutes

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in double qutes PHP will seek for some varaiable inluded with a string
so in first solution you may make it like :

$var="test";

echo "C:\web\menu\\$var";