Using the apostrophe for PHP associative array element's name

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Hi I've been trying to figure out how to put something like Joe's Fruits into a PHP array something like this:

<?php
$arr = array(
'Fruitland' => '3ddlskdf3',
'Joe's Fruits' => 'dddfdfer3',
);
?>

Using the above for example (stackoverflow's code color should tell you this by now), the array will take it as 'Joe' between the two apostrophes instead of the whole 'Joe's Fruits' is there any way I can do this without just calling it 'Joes Fruits'?

Sarfraz · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-22 11:50:34Z

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Escape quotes with a backslash (\):

<?php
$arr = array(
'Fruitland' => '3ddlskdf3',
'Joe\'s Fruits' => 'dddfdfer3',
);
?>

You can also simply do:

<?php
$arr = array(
"Fruitland" => "3ddlskdf3",
"Joe's Fruits" => "dddfdfer3",
);
?>

answered May 22, 2010 at 11:50

Sarfraz

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Haskella Over a year ago

Thank you, (that was a quick!) and helpful reply ^_^ EDIT: If you don't mind, I hope I can squeeze in another PHP question: header("Location: ".$variable.".html") is this legal? Doing a concatenation like this?

Your Common Sense · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-22 12:02:33Z

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PHP strings manual is very useful for ones who just started to learn.
Along with strings functions list it covers half of the necessary knowledge.

answered May 22, 2010 at 12:02

Your Common Sense

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