| Re: define ('NL', "<br />"); can I define a constant var ? [message #180177 is a reply to message #180176] |
Tue, 22 January 2013 02:50   |
Kim Andr Aker
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På Tue, 22 Jan 2013 03:16:28 +0100, skrev BobMCT <r(dot)mariotti(at)fdcx(dot)net>:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:44:49 +0000 (UTC), Adam Harvey
> <usenet(at)adamharvey(dot)name> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:06:46 -0800, cate wrote:
>>> I can see why this doesn't work:
>>>
>>> define ('NL', '<br />');
>>> echo "This is NL another line";
>>>
>>> Is there a way to define a constant variable in PHP?
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>> Not as such — you can define constants with define() or (in 5..3.0+) the
>> const keyword, but they aren't variables and hence aren't interpolated
>> into strings, as you've discovered.
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>> As an alternative, there's always:
>> echo "This is ".NL." another line";
>>
>> Adam
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> Or perhaps an easier string approach:
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> echo "this is \n another line";
Alternatively:
echo nl2br("This is \n another line");
http://php.net/nl2br
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