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[Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Michael Southwell wrote:

> When $PRODUCTS[$here]["v1b"]="holster"
> and $j="v1b"
> echo "<a href=\"path/$PRODUCTS[$here][$j]\"... evaluates to path/Array[v1b]
> which is meaningless
> but echo "<a href=\"path/".$PRODUCTS[$here][$j]."\"... evaluates to
> path/holster which is correct (or to be more precise, what I wanted).

PHP doesn't know if you're referring to a two dimentional array named
$PRODUCTS or some other potential weirdly constructed variable. They
way to solve this while still using double quotes is to place the
whole variable inside of {}s:

echo "{$PRODUCTS[$here][$j]}"

This "forced coersion" feature isn't well known.

-adam

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