When to use " '?

[ben]

I read a tutorial and sometimes the author is using ' - sometimes ".

What is the difference?

Example:

if(isset($_GET['section']) AND ("admin" == $_GET['section'])) {
session_start(); }

if(isset($_GET['section']) AND ('admin' == $_GET['section'])) {
session_start(); }

[Cheatah]

Hi,

What is the difference?

the (number of) characters you have to escape. See the documentation.

Cheatah

[Christian Kruse]

你好 ben,

I read a tutorial and sometimes the author is using ' - sometimes ".

What is the difference?

The difference is, that variables and escape sequences will not get expanded in single quotes. So,

  
$var = "def"  
echo "abc$var"  

will print out abcdef, while

  
$var = "def"  
echo 'abc$var'  

will print out abc$var. That's the main difference. For more information have a look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

再见,
 克里斯蒂安