making text changes

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Hello...I did look the docs and I know where exactly to make changes. But when I make text changes I get parse errors.

 

i want to know if I have to follow any php conventions when completing a line or making a new para. I am totally novice at this.

 

help would be much appreciated.

 

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[Spaceboy]

Due to my experiences you must always put your text between quotes (like '). And always end your php line with ; .

You must understand that the PHP parser (the program that reads your code and tries to separate the PHP commands of your text) searches for PHP tags like ; and '. If you put these in your text then it will be confused. To use these characters you must put a \ (backslash) before the character to indicate to the parser that is NOT a special character but part of your text.

 

Didier.

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hey....thanks ...that was very useful. can you please tell me what i have to do when I create a new a para.

 

Thanks again

[gaia]

You can either continue the text normally, or concatenate the lines.. here's some examples:

 

define(SAMPLE_A_TEXT, 'This is an example of continuing the text on a
separate line. Nothing special is needed here, just be aware that this string
is encapsulated by the single quote character. If you need to use a single quote, 
you will need to escape it, as mentioned before, with a backslash. For example you
might do something like: That\'s strange looking.');

define(SAMPLE_B_TEXT, 'In this example, we\'ll concatenate lines like this by using the ' .
'period. The period character can be used to concatenate many strings together, ' . 
'as well as using them to include variable. So, to add the first example in this string, ' .
'you would do like so: sample a is ' . SAMPLE_A_TEXT . ' and then continue by concatenating ' .
'again.');

Remember, if you want the line breaks to show up in the web browser, you need to use the <BR> tag. Also, do not use the osC file manager to upload your PHP files, as the escaped single quotes will probably disappear, causing you headaches and parse errors.

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Thanks guys...appreciate your help

 

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