I would like to replace array string values which contains multiple special characters to normal one.
Tried Code (array values):
$data['ENV_TEST'] = "rambo";
$data['ENV_DEV'] = "Project Bribara<"${ENV_TEST}"#gmail.com>"
echo str_replace("${ENV_TEST}", $data['ENV_DEV'], $data['ENV_DEV']);
also tried
echo str_replace("\"${ENV_TEST}\"", $data['ENV_DEV'], $data['ENV_DEV']);
Expected:
"Project Bribara<rambo#gmail.com>"
Actual:
"Project Bribara<"${ENV_TEST}"#gmail.com>"
How can I get the expected output?
You should on PHP strings sometime. The important part about double quoted strings for your question is that you need to put a backslash before every $ and every " inside your string. Your code will then look like this:
$data['ENV_TEST'] = "rambo";
$data['ENV_DEV'] = "Project Bribara<\"\${ENV_TEST}\"#gmail.com>";
echo str_replace("\${ENV_TEST}", $data['ENV_TEST'], $data['ENV_DEV']);
//also tried
echo "\n\n";
echo str_replace("\"\${ENV_TEST}\"", $data['ENV_TEST'], $data['ENV_DEV']);
If you use single quoted strings you don't need to escape $ (see the manual), and instead of \", you would need to escape single quotes (but there aren't any in your example).
$data['ENV_TEST'] = "rambo";
$data['ENV_DEV'] = 'Project Bribara<"${ENV_TEST}"#gmail.com>';
echo str_replace("\${ENV_TEST}", $data['ENV_TEST'], $data['ENV_DEV']);
//also tried
echo "\n\n";
echo str_replace('"${ENV_TEST}"', $data['ENV_TEST'], $data['ENV_DEV']);
I also fixed a missing semicolon and replaced DEV with TEST in one place.
String concatenation in PHP is done through the . operator. Your code would be:
$data['ENV_DEV'] = "Project Bribara<".$data['ENV_TEST']."#gmail.com>"
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I am trying to create html content in PHP and for onclick event I have included a function named uchat for a div. The function takes a name parameter which is a string.
Like below:
$name = "Php string";
$echostr .= "<div onClick='uchat(\'$name\')'>
</div>";
But, passing a string value like this causes syntax error when div is clicked. Because, single quote is within a single quote. I have tried to escape it, but it still doesnt work.
The error is this:
SyntaxError: illegal character
uchat(\
I am not sure how to escape a string parameter and I have come across this problem so many times, Please help if you have a solution for this.
Thanks.
Escaped single quotes will conflict with outer ones:
$echostr .= "<div onClick=\"uchat('$name')\">
</div>";
Here are 2 clean and simple ways to do this:
1. Classic concat
$name = "Php string";
$str = "<div onClick=\"uchat('" . $name . "')\"></div>";
print $str;
2. Using sprintf (http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php)
$name = "Php string2";
$str = sprintf("<div onClick=\"uchat('%s')\"></div>", $name);
print $str;
try like this
$echostr .= "<div onClick='uchat("$name")'></div>";
This works:
<?php
$name = "Php string";
$echostr .= <<< EOF
<div onClick="uchat('$name')"></div>
EOF;
echo $echostr;
?>
Output:
<div onClick="uchat('Php string')"></div>
In order to avoid escaping all double quotes and to make the html code more readable you can use EOF.
See it action : http://ideone.com/vRCCVH
Can you combine a PHP function and string in the same echo statement? Currently, I have this code that grabs a photo's caption, then shortens it to 25 characters or less, stopping at the nearest blank space so it can fit the whole word.
echo substr($caption,0,strpos($caption,' ',25));
echo " ...";
Example output: changes "This is way too long to fit in this foobar small area preview box" to "This is way too long to..."
I'd like to be able to combine the 'substr' and '...' into the same echo statement. I tried the following, but it didn't work:
echo "{substr($caption,0,strpos($caption,' ',25))} ...";
Any ideas?
The , is great for this, and much faster than the ., which has the overhead of concatenating the string.
echo substr($caption, 0, strpos($caption, ' ', 25)), '...';
EDIT: To clarify, the , just simply sends all the strings, separated by the comma, to echo, and thus is equal to the separate line echo statments. The DOT operator performs concatenation. You can use as many commas as you want, i.e. echo strFunction1(), ' some text ', strFunction2(), '...';
Try:
echo substr($caption,0,strpos($caption,' ',25)) . '...';
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Difference between single quote and double quote string in php
I am new to PHP and in programming i have seen use of both "" and ' '.
What is the difference between "" and ' '?
And in declaring a link i have used the following ,but it does not seem to work there must be something wrong in quotation:
$abc_output .='' Back to Main Menu'';
echo $abc_output;
What might be the error here?
You want to keep the text inside of your string:
$abc_output .='Back to Main Menu';
The difference between ' and " is that you can embed variables inside of a double quoted string.
For example:
$name = 'John';
$sentence = "$name just left"; // John just left
If you were to use single quotes, then you'd have to concatenate:
$name = 'John';
$sentence = $name.' just left'; // John just left
PS: Don't forget that you always have to escape your quotes. The following 2 are the same:
$double = "I'm going out"; // I'm going out
$single = 'I\'m going out'; // I'm going out
Same applies the other way around:
$single = 'I said "Get out!!"'; // I said "Get out!!"
$double = "I said \"Get out!!\""; // I said "Get out!!"
Double quotes allow additional expressions, such as "$variable \n", which single quotes don't. Compare:
$variable = 42;
echo "double: $variable,\n 43\n";
echo 'single: $variable,\n 43';
This outputs:
double: 42,
43
single: $variable,\n 43
For more information, refer to the official documentation.
Text in double quotes are parsed.
For example:
$test = 'something';
print('This is $test');
print("This is $something");
would result in:
This is $test
This is something
If you don't need the string to be parsed you should use single quotes since it's better performance wise.
In your case you need to do:
$abc_output .='Back to Main Menu';
echo $abc_output;
Or you will get an error.
The Back to Main Menu wasn't in the string.
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in HTML
we can
face='Tahoma'
face="Tahoma"
and in PHP
$name = "Junaid";
$name = 'Junaid';
$names = array('Junaid','Junaid','Junaid');
$names = array("Junaid","Junaid","Junaid");
now all these statements are correct with single or double quotes but
what difference does it make
which is the preferred method
what types of quotes to use where
which one of the following is correct
$link = "www.anyLINK.com"
echo "<a href=' ". $link ." '>Click Here</a>"
echo "<a href= ". $link ." >Click Here</a>"
The difference between single and double quotes in PHP is that PHP will read variables inside of double quotes but not single. For example:
<?php
$variable = "test";
echo "Can you see this $variable"; // Can you see this test
echo 'Can you see this $variable'; // Can you see this $variable
?>
The single quote will be read literal, where was double will attempt to replace the $variable with it's value.
Optimization Differences
As pointed out in the comments below, single quotes tend to be faster than double. In a quick benchmark, double quotes with any $'s escaped is the fastest vs single and double with and without $variables in the string. See http://codexon.codepad.org/54L3miwN
See http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php.
In particular, variables are expanded in double quotes:
$foo = 42;
print('foo is $foo'); // foo is $foo
print("foo is $foo"); // foo is 42
In HTML, it doesn't matter at all.
In PHP, it does. Using the single-quotes prevents variables from being interpreted; for instance, echo '$foo'; will print "$foo". Not the variable, just the characters. Also, you have to escape single-quotes within single-quotes, but not single-quotes within double-quotes, etc. I answered this question before here.
As for your second question, they're both wrong. It should be:
echo "<a href='". $link ."'>Click Here</a>"
or, better yet:
echo "<a href='$link'>Click Here</a>"
or, better still, a templating engine like Smarty TPL.
simple problem baffling me...
i have a function:
function spitHTML() {
$html = '
<div>This is my title</div>\n
<div>This is a second div</div>';
return $html
}
echo $spitHTML();
Why is this actually spitting out the \n's?
Backslashes used in single quote strings do not work as escape characters (besides for the single quote itself).
$string1 = "\n"; // this is a newline
$string2 = '\n'; // this is a backslash followed by the letter n
$string3 = '\''; // this is a single quote
$string3 = "\""; // this is a double quote
So why use single quotes at all? The answer is simple: If you want to print, for example, HTML code, in which naturally there are a lot of double quotes, wrapping the string in single quotes is much more readable:
$html = '<div class="heading" style="align: center" id="content">';
This is far better than
$html = "<div class=\"heading\" style=\"align: center\" id=\"content\">";
Besides that, since PHP doesn't have to parse the single quote strings for variables and/or escaped characters, it processes these strings a bit faster.
Personally, I always use single quotes and attach newline characters from double quotes. This then looks like
$text = 'This is a standard text with non-processed $vars followed by a newline' . "\n";
But that's just a matter of taste :o)
Because you're using single quotes - change to double quotes and it will behave as you expect.
See the documentation for Single quoted strings.
Change ' to " :) (After that, all special chars and variable be noticed)
$html = "
<div>This is my title</div>\n
<div>This is a second div</div>";