I am currently reading "Professional PHP5", I encountered the following code and do not understand the use of the curly braces, "{}". Please tell me.

print "<h1>Individual - {$objEntity->__toString()}</h1>";

May the force be with you.

hi,

  the use of curly braces is to make separate process with that line number..

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which line number are you refering to?

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hi aaaa0441,
ex:
case 1:
if($i==5)
echo ("Number 5");


case 2:
if($i==5){
echo ("Number 5");
echo ("Number 5 line 2");
}

when you look both case, in case one we do not have curly braces, so it will print only 1 line,
but when u look case 2, we are using curly braces, so it will print both lines,

surendran
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Thanks, surendran. But I don't think you got my question.
My question is the use of curly braces within a string literal.

Please test the following code and, if you understand, tell me why the outputs are different?

Code:

class test{
  private $strTest;

  public function __construct($strTest="Just to test it.<br />"){
    $this->strTest=$strTest;
  }

  public function __toString(){
    return $this->strTest;
  }
}

$objTest=new test();
print "Test with curly braces: {$objTest->__toString()}";
print "Test without curly braces: $objTest->__toString()";

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This is done so that the interpreter knows exactly where the variable identifier ends.

Consider this situation:

class WierdClass {
  public $aa;
  public $aaa;
  // The rest of definition goes here...
}

$myWeirdObject = new WierdClass();
echo "$myWeirdObject->aaaaa";

So what is the interpreter do, output myWeirdObject->aa and string "aaa" or myWeirdObject->aaa and string "aa"? To avoid confusion, you have the option of using the curly braces to tell the interpreter exactly what to do:

echo "{$myWeirdObject->aa}aaa";

or

echo "{$myWeirdObject->aaa}aa";

In the second case, the interpreter, for lack of better information, treats "$objTest->__toString()" as a variable "$objTest->__toString" followed by a pair of parentheses. Since the test object nas no property called __toString, a NULL value is output, followed by a pair of parentheses.

In the first case, the interpreter is explicitly told that "$objTest->__toString()" is a complete identifier and treats it as such, so the output is the value retured by the method...

Thanks a lot, NC.
Your answer is the clearest and most convincing one.

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