Re top of page: "We added a little trick to our normal echo statement: the use of periods to amend the statement as such:"

Do the periods act as concatenation operators here?

In the example:
echo "My top ". $_POST["num"]. " movies are:<br>";

It looks like 'my top' and 'movies are' are enclosed in quotes, and the $_POST, using the periods, is inserted between these clauses, if you will. So in this sense the periods appear to concatenate the clauses. Is that right?

By the way, notice there is a space after the first period before the $_POST... Is that space intentional or arbitrary?

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ABabb
Dallas TX

That is correct, it is concatenation.

It can also be written as:
echo "My top {$_POST["num"]} movies are:<br>";

The curly braces act as delimiters for the variable, since a double-quoted string is used variable replacement happens. This is particularly useful with multidimensional arrays.

You can read more on this here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

Regards,
Rich

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Thanks. And a very nice web site, the smiling souls site.