As for me, curly braces serve good substitution for concatenation, and they are quicker to type and code looks cleaner. Remember to use double quotes (" ") as their content is parced by php, because in single quotes (' ') you'll get litaral name of variable provided:
<?php
$a = '12345';
// This works:
echo "qwe{$a}rty"; // qwe12345rty, using braces
echo "qwe" . $a . "rty"; // qwe12345rty, concatenation used
// Does not work:
echo 'qwe{$a}rty'; // qwe{$a}rty, single quotes are not parsed
echo "qwe$arty"; // qwe, because $a became $arty, which is undefined
?>
문자열 연산자
두 개의 string 연산자가 있습니다. 첫번째는 연결 연산자('.')로, 오른쪽과 왼쪽 인수의 연결을 반환합니다. 두번째는 연결 할당 연산자('.=')로, 오른쪽 인수를 왼쪽 인수에 덧붙입니다. 자세한 정보는 할당 연산자를 참고하십시오.
<?php
$a = "Hello ";
$b = $a . "World!"; // now $b contains "Hello World!"
$a = "Hello ";
$a .= "World!"; // now $a contains "Hello World!"
?>
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User Contributed Notes 6 notes
K.Alex ¶
11 years ago
anders dot benke at telia dot com ¶
20 years ago
A word of caution - the dot operator has the same precedence as + and -, which can yield unexpected results.
Example:
<php
$var = 3;
echo "Result: " . $var + 3;
?>
The above will print out "3" instead of "Result: 6", since first the string "Result3" is created and this is then added to 3 yielding 3, non-empty non-numeric strings being converted to 0.
To print "Result: 6", use parantheses to alter precedence:
<php
$var = 3;
echo "Result: " . ($var + 3);
?>
Stephen Clay ¶
18 years ago
<?php
"{$str1}{$str2}{$str3}"; // one concat = fast
$str1. $str2. $str3; // two concats = slow
?>
Use double quotes to concat more than two strings instead of multiple '.' operators. PHP is forced to re-concatenate with every '.' operator.
hexidecimalgadget at hotmail dot com ¶
15 years ago
If you attempt to add numbers with a concatenation operator, your result will be the result of those numbers as strings.
<?php
echo "thr"."ee"; //prints the string "three"
echo "twe" . "lve"; //prints the string "twelve"
echo 1 . 2; //prints the string "12"
echo 1.2; //prints the number 1.2
echo 1+2; //prints the number 3
?>
biziclop ¶
2 years ago
Some bitwise operators (the and, or, xor and not operators: & | ^ ~ ) also work with strings too since PHP4, so you don't have to loop through strings and do chr(ord($s[i])) like things.
See the documentation of the bitwise operators: https://www.php.net/operators.bitwise
<?php var_dump(
('23456787654' ^ 'zVXYYhoXDYP'), // 'Hello_World'
('(!($)^!)@$@' | '@ddhfIvn2H$'), // 'hello_world'
('{}~|o!Wo{|}' & 'Lgmno|Wovmf'), // 'Hello World'
(~'<0-14)(98' & '}}}}}}}}}') // 'AMPLITUDE'
); ?>
Live demo: https://3v4l.org/MnFeb
mariusads::at::helpedia.com ¶
16 years ago
Be careful so that you don't type "." instead of ";" at the end of a line.
It took me more than 30 minutes to debug a long script because of something like this:
<?
echo 'a'.
$c = 'x';
echo 'b';
echo 'c';
?>
The output is "axbc", because of the dot on the first line.
