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[David Krings]

Hello,

	my name is David and I am new in this group. I do some PHP for fun for my 
private web site and well, not to bore you with more details about me, here 
is my question. I always stumble across an odd thing with arrays. I read in 
many documentations and books that one should use the single quotes when 
referencing to an array element, such as $array['element']. Generally, this 
works fine and I use it that way, but it always fails when using it in echo 
or header statements (and probably a few others). The error I receive is
parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or 
T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING.

I know how to get around this parse error by omitting the single quotes 
($array[element] instead of $array['element']), but I somehow am under the 
impression as if this isn't really the way to do it. I could assign it to a 
variable each time, but that is quite annoying (but maybe the right thing 
to do?).

What is the significance of the single quotes? What is the expert advice on 
using or not using them? How would I package the single quote in an echo or 
header statement?


	Any enlightenment is greatly appreciated.


			David