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Re: forcing double quotes

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Olaf S. wrote:

> Am 25.05.2012 07:30, schrieb richard:
>> echo "<a href='#'>"
>>
>> how do you make it so that the output will show "#"?
>> &quot; in place of the ' does not work.
> 
> echo '<a href="#">#</a>';

PHP is the *P*HP *H*ypertext *P*reprocessor.  Use it:

  <?php
    …
  ?><a href="#">#</a><?php
    …
  ?>

(Insert line-breaks where convenient, but be aware that they result in 
whitespace text nodes which in turn may result in a space character being 
displayed.  Consult the HTML 4.01 Specification for details.)

This approach (stdin – parse – stdout) wins over a here-doc string in almost 
all cases, as by contrast the ending delimiter of a here-doc string must be 
at the first column (so is not easy to indent), can only be followed by at 
least a semicolon (which means concatenation for more complex expressions), 
and requires escaping of some characters that do not have to be escaped with 
the approach above.

Incidentally, it is described and recommended by one of the first chapters 
of the PHP manual:

<http://php.net/manual/en/tutorial.firstpage.php>

It should also be noted that PHP 5.4 does away with the nonsense that 
`<?= … ?>' would not be working with short_open_tag=Off (which required you
to write `<?php echo …; ?>' instead), so there is no good excuse left to 
`echo' *everything* (instead of just the dynamic parts) rather ineffiently:

<http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php>


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forcing double quotes richard <member@newsguy.com> - 2012-05-25 01:30 -0400
  Re: forcing double quotes "Olaf S." <thesys@gmx.de> - 2012-05-25 08:26 +0200
    Re: forcing double quotes Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-05-25 15:22 +0200
      Re: forcing double quotes "Olaf S." <thesys@gmx.de> - 2012-05-25 21:57 +0200
        Re: forcing double quotes "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2012-05-25 20:35 +0000
          Re: forcing double quotes Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-05-26 07:09 -0700
  Re: forcing double quotes Shake <QUITAESTO@QUITAESTO.NOES> - 2012-05-25 09:54 +0200
  Re: forcing double quotes The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-25 09:46 +0100
  Re: forcing double quotes Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-05-25 04:54 -0700
  Re: forcing double quotes Markus Sonnenberg <lassmichinruhe@rz-amper.de> - 2012-05-25 15:57 +0200
  Re: forcing double quotes Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2012-05-25 21:19 +0200

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