Re: [PHP] mysql_connect noob question

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Glob Design Info <[email protected]>wrote:

> One other thing I noted in the FAQ was this:
>
> "Dots in incoming variable names
> Typically, PHP does not alter the names of variables when they are passed
> into a script. However, it should be noted that the dot (period, full stop)
> is not a valid character in a PHP variable name. For the reason, look at it:
>
> <?php



> $varname.ext;  /* invalid variable name */
>


> ?>
> Now, what the parser sees is a variable named $varname, followed by the
> string concatenation operator, followed by the barestring (i.e. unquoted
> string which doesn't match any known key or reserved words) 'ext'.
> Obviously, this doesn't have the intended result.
> For this reason, it is important to note that PHP will automatically
> replace any dots in incoming variable names with underscores."
>
> I should note my user name in this case *is* an email address, however the
> dots in that address are *not* being converted to underscores as mentioned
> (at least not visibly).
>
>
>
it's says variable NAMES not variable contents