Can somebody tell me what is wrong whith this line:

echo "The of values of Style is $_POST['style_name']";

Thanks
Christian

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Christian

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/languag...string.parsing

Note the 4th example under arrays.

You can do:

echo "The values of Style is {$_POST['style_name']}";

or my preference:

echo "The values of Style is " . $_POST['style_name'];

Thanks, I used the second one but wasn't sure why it was not working with just echo "$_POST['style_name']";. I will have to remember to put brackets.

:D

Christian

Hi !
I suggest you to use dblquotes this way.
  echo $_POST["style_name"];

No, you should use single quotes. The only time you should use double quotes is if you have to do something "special" inside them -- for instance, you want PHP to correctly use the variable "in $this string." If you don't need PHP to parse the stuff inside the quotes, then use single quotes, as it's more efficient.

For this reason, it is usually recommended to use single quotes inside all of your arrays.

Michael K. Glass
Author, Beginning PHP, Apache, MySQL Web Development

Which was exactly my point Buzzly I wanted to put the $_POST['variable'] inside an echo statement without having to put: . $_POST['variable']. As far as I know there php will complain if you put : echo "The vaues of variables is $_POST["variable"] ";

Christian

I think the difference though Christian is that you were trying to echo a value in an array, which you have to reference a bit differently than a plain old variable.

This works:
echo "My name is $name";

and so does this:
echo "My name is " . $name;

But this doesn't:
echo "My name is $_POST['name']";
because you are referencing a value in an array, as jason offered the link to the explanation. When referencing an array, you either need to use braces or separate the value out with .'s

Thanks Elizabeth. I got that after reading Jason post that is why if you see my second posting you will notice I acknowledge that. My last posting was with regard to the sugestion to use double quotes instead on single ones around the index of the array.

Christian