[pmwiki-users] Problem with $FmtPV;

[Ben Wilson]

Thanks. But then why does it not fail otherwise?

On 5/22/07, Stirling Westrup <sti at pooq.com> wrote:
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> Ben Wilson wrote:
> > I am setting $FmtPV with the following value: '2007W19'; This is how I
> > set it, outside of any function, but in a recipe.
> >
> > $FmtPV['$YearWeek'] = '2007W19';
>
> This won't work. The contents of $FmtPV are run through eval. That means it
> has to be a valid PHP expression. 2007W19 isn't one. You need to do something
> like this:
>
>  $FmtPV['$YearWeek'] = '"2007W19"';
>
> Because "2007W19" *is* a valid expression. If you need to use the value of a
> (non-global) variable, you'd do it like this:
>
>
>  $FmtPV['$YearWeek'] = '"'.$MyVariable.'"';
>
> If $MyVariable contains a string with quotes though, things get a bit messier.
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