[Solved] To use ‘ ‘ or ” “

[thisishard]

Could someone please tell me when i should you single quotes and when to use double quotes. At the moments my code seems to vary depending on what my hands hits at the time.

[Chris Coyier]

In HTML and JavaScript it doesn’t matter, so long as your opening ones match your closing ones, and if you need to use one or the other inside, you alternate.

In PHP, using double quotes allows you to use $variables inside the quotes, where single quotes do not.

[Rob MacKay]

Yea you just have to remember when using “” and vars that you don’t need to open array keys in ” – for example….

echo "this is a string $array[key]"; 

will work, as does

echo 'this is a string ' . $array;

But what is really good to use is curly brackets { }

echo "this is a string {$array}";

Then you don’t have to worry and you can use multidimensional key access with no headaches :D

[Luminated]

“multidimensional key access”

Thank you neo! ;)

[Rob MacKay]

No problem – now I must away! Mr Smith is gathering!

[thisishard]

Thanks People.

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