[GLLUG] PHP Concatinating Strings

[Ex Fed]

>I don't do PHP and am greatly surprised that PHP's mysql interface
>doesn't seem to have a printf-like command like every other scripting
>language I've seen. That lets you insert placeholders, pass in the
>values, and let the library do the quoting, like this:

PHP does in fact support PRINTF and SPRINTF

Here is an example of the use of printf:

<?php
$format = "The %s contains %d monkeys";
printf($format, $location, $num);
?>

And an example of the use of sprintf
<?php
$isodate = sprintf("%04d-%02d-%02d", $year, $month, $day);
?>

This sprintf formats strings you never know someday you might want to change 
the format of the date, so you can enter it into a mysql database.

You can pretty much format any type of string with it, and I believe you can 
escape slashes and other characters.

Lee D.

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