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what is this .= ?
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:49 am
by runrunforest
this .= happened toappear between two strings. I don't know what it means.
Re: what is this .= ?
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:56 am
by onion2k
It's the concatenation operator. Essentially it means "add the content of this string on to the previous string".
Re: what is this .= ?
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:58 am
by gsairam
Example:
<?php
$a = 3;
$a += 5; // sets $a to 8, as if we had said: $a = $a + 5;
$b = "Hello ";
$b .= "There!"; // sets $b to "Hello There!", just like $b = $b . "There!";
echo $b;
?>
Hope its a continuation of the previous result of the variable. Here the output will be
Hello There!
The above expamle may help you better..
Re: what is this .= ?
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:28 pm
by runrunforest
only apply for strings ?
Re: what is this .= ?
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:42 pm
by onion2k
runrunforest wrote:only apply for strings ?
Try it and see.
Re: what is this .= ?
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:17 pm
by califdon
Better yet, read the manual. Syntax questions are best answered by a fast search at the appropriate documentation web site.
PHP:
http://www.php.net/docs.php
MySQL:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/
HTML, Javascript, CSS:
http://w3schools.com/