Comments on: PHP Strings Don’t Need Quotes

By: Codetician

Codetician — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 19:46:50 +0000

Please take down this post. It’s not worth reading

By: Ryan Jentzsch

Ryan Jentzsch — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:07:06 +0000

Arrrgh!!!
I’ve been in the IT industry for over 20 years. I’m just starting to learn PHP and no other language I know of let’s you do this, nor should any language allow this. NO! NO! NO!

Most languages let you shot yourself in the foot in one way or another. With PHP I’m learning that you can easily blow your entire torso off.

I completely agree with Aaron Saray that DO NOT DO THIS should be at the top and bolded!

By: krembo99

krembo99 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 04:49:17 +0000

This is wrong on so many levels that one would need a special algorithm function to calculate the amount of possible damage from this Idea …

By: atabak

atabak — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:54:59 +0000

when use ” ” php engine process all text in “” and need time ,
when use ‘ ‘ php engine just print[echo] and no need process time for variable

By: Smack

Smack — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:47:27 +0000

This article is pure flame bait. More articles like this will speed up the slow death of PHP. I love it!

By: Chris Tankersley

Chris Tankersley — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:29:27 +0000

*sigh*

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Don’t write an article like this explaining like this is something that you can do, and then provide a little tiny disclaimer saying you shouldn’t.

EVERYONE SHOULD IGNORE THIS ARTICLE COMPLETELY AND NEVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, USE UNQUOTED STRING

By: ircmaxell

ircmaxell — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:26:01 +0000

Except that if I do: define("hello", "goodbye"); your echo hello; Won't do what you think it will. Don't abuse language features like that...

By: Mike Bernat

Mike Bernat — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:15:11 +0000

I echo what everyone else says about avoiding this like the plague. It only accentuates some of PHP’s eccentricities that professionals try to avoid with coding standards.

By: cx42net

cx42net — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:12:38 +0000

Try this before all the php lines you wrote :

Enjoy the mess this could bring.

By: Nim

Nim — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:55:17 +0000

Surely you’re joking? That’s completely retarded. Regardless of whether you disable error reporting, the error handler will still be triggered every single time you do this. And every time you do this, PHP will turn your string into a constant, and memory for constants is never freed or garbage collected.

Did I mention this was retarded?

If you don’t like quotes, you can just use the heredoc or nowdoc syntax:

// Heredoc
$string = << bla text goes here ble look mom, no quotes!
and I can even use $variables
STOP_HERE;

// Nowdoc
$string = <<<'QUOTED_STRING'
Equivalent of single quotes, can't use $variables now
QUOTED_STRING