Simple question, but I`m puzzled :(

Hi!
I`ve got a simple question but I`m puzzled:( When I create variable: for example
$query for query to MySQL its obvieus that I want to use variables. Now should I do
something like that:
1) $query = "blahblahblah".$variable1."blahblahblah"
."blahblahblah".$variable2."blahblahblah";
OR
2) $query = "blahblahblah."$variable1."blahblahblah"
."blahblahblah."$variable2."blahblahblah";

It`s the 1st one right? I have to be sure:(
TIA

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Maciej Nadolski

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:31:23 +0000 (UTC), Maciej Nadolski
<usenet@WYTNIJ-TO.nadolski.net> wrote:

>Hi!
>I`ve got a simple question but I`m puzzled:( When I create variable: for example
>$query for query to MySQL its obvieus that I want to use variables. Now should I do
>something like that:
>1) $query = "blahblahblah".$variable1."blahblahblah"
> ."blahblahblah".$variable2."blahblahblah";
>OR
>2) $query = "blahblahblah."$variable1."blahblahblah"
> ."blahblahblah."$variable2."blahblahblah";
>
>It`s the 1st one right? I have to be sure:(

The first one is valid PHP, the second one is a syntax error, as PHP would
have told you if you'd tried it...

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Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote in
news:cmjtnvc5efjhqrcknd0gcemirgehu7r4i4@4ax.com:

> The first one is valid PHP, the second one is a syntax error, as PHP
> would
> have told you if you'd tried it...
>
> --
> Andy Hassall (andy@andyh.co.uk) icq(5747695) (http://www.andyh.co.uk)
> Space: disk usage analysis tool (http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space)
>

I haven`t run tests yet and I wanted to make sure before them so I asked. Thanks:)

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Pozdrawiam,
Maciej Nadolski

On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 14:10:28 +0000, Maciej Nadolski wrote:

> Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote in
> news:cmjtnvc5efjhqrcknd0gcemirgehu7r4i4@4ax.com:
>
>> The first one is valid PHP, the second one is a syntax error, as PHP
>> would
>> have told you if you'd tried it...
>>
>> --
>> Andy Hassall (andy@andyh.co.uk) icq(5747695) (http://www.andyh.co.uk)
>> Space: disk usage analysis tool (http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space)
>>
>
> I haven`t run tests yet and I wanted to make sure before them so I asked. Thanks:)

Well why the heck not?? A simple test would've answered your question more
quickly than posting to this newsgroup!
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"Maciej Nadolski" <usenet@WYTNIJ-TO.nadolski.net> wrote in message
news:Xns940A9DE54605Dusenetnadolskinet@193.110.122 .80...
> Hi!
> I`ve got a simple question but I`m puzzled:( When I create variable: for
example
> $query for query to MySQL its obvieus that I want to use variables. Now
should I do
> something like that:
> 1) $query = "blahblahblah".$variable1."blahblahblah"
> ."blahblahblah".$variable2."blahblahblah";
> OR
> 2) $query = "blahblahblah."$variable1."blahblahblah"
> ."blahblahblah."$variable2."blahblahblah";
>
> It`s the 1st one right? I have to be sure:(

What was the point of this question? I ask only because the only difference
between your examples would appear to be a typo (concatenation operator
inside quotes in second example).

- Virgil

"Maciej Nadolski" <usenet@WYTNIJ-TO.nadolski.net> wrote in message
news:Xns940A9DE54605Dusenetnadolskinet@193.110.122 .80...
> Hi!
> I`ve got a simple question but I`m puzzled:( When I create variable: for
example
> $query for query to MySQL its obvieus that I want to use variables. Now
should I do
> something like that:
> 1) $query = "blahblahblah".$variable1."blahblahblah"
> ."blahblahblah".$variable2."blahblahblah";
> OR
> 2) $query = "blahblahblah."$variable1."blahblahblah"
> ."blahblahblah."$variable2."blahblahblah";
>
> It`s the 1st one right? I have to be sure:(
> TIA
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Maciej Nadolski

RTFM. If you did you would see that 1 is valid php and 2 is not, but that
neither are partiularly efficient.

You are using double quotes where single would suffice:

$query = 'blahblahblah'.$variable1.'blahblahblahblahblahbla h'
.$variable2.'blahblahblah';

would be favourable. If you really wanted to use doube quotes (maybe your
keyboard is broken?) then you could use:

$query = "blahblahblah{$variable1}blahblahblah
{$variable2}blahblahblah";

but this will be slower as php will be parsing the pre-defined text as well.

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