Comments on: Variables

By: Martin Geisler

Martin Geisler — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:01:30 +0000

Cool, thanks for the review. As for WordPress, then you might be able to find a plugin for a contact page, I don’t know. Or you can ask in the WordPress forums where the real experts hang out — I’m just using a stock WordPress installation here :-)

By: Benny

Benny — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:10:45 +0000

Martin, I am really impress with what you have here. Your site have made me to understand some of the challenges I have had so far in my site design and twitching. It’s the best tutorial on php that I have seen so far on the ‘Net. (As a result, I have reviewed this page on Stumbleupon to create more visibility for you.)

Maybe I should ask this question here.. “What is the best way to implement my ‘Homepage’ and ‘Contactpage’ on Wordpress at the moment using PHP? You could view my site Sirius Forex to see what I mean. Thank you.

By: Vaughn

Vaughn — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:38:41 +0000

These two appear to be the same to me

This string will give you a little problem:

$name = “Martin “mg” Geisler”;
If you try it out, you’ll get an error. That’s because the parser expects the string to stop after the second double-quote, just before the word mg. The rest of the line is just garbage to the parser so it complains loud. Perhaps it would help if we escaped the double-quote? Exactly! The following string is correct:

$name = “Martin “mg” Geisler”;

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:48:00 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. Time is money and you are saving all of us time, it’s like giving away money :-) Thanks

By: Umer

Umer — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:55:39 +0000

I have a form that returns a string like: “xyz, abc, def” and I want to put single quotes around each of these values before using this string in a query? how can that be done in php?

By: Martin Geisler

Martin Geisler — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:28:07 +0000

Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad that my tutorial is still useful.

As for the problems with the newline character, would it then be the typical problem with having to use <br/> in the source to get a linebreak in the browser? From the feedback I've gotten I can tell that this is a very common mistake...

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:12:08 +0000

Martin,

Thanks for actually taking the time to write this tutorial -Everytime I teach myself a new language, new app or server configuration I swear I'm going to write a tutorial to save others some learning pains. (but I never do)

Anyway, as far as I can tell the newline "\n" as you used it above doesn't work when passed to HTML. I had to use "".

Thanks again for your efforts.

Scott