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PHP

jinhwa yoo
jinhwa yoo
10,042 Points
Posted by jinhwa yoo
jinhwa yoo
10,042 Points

help me

$paging .= '<li class="page current">' . $i . '</li>';

???

can you explain each by each???

$paging = declaring variable.

.= = ???

'<li class="page current">'</li>'; = ???? .$i. = ????

1 Answer

jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points

First, x .= y is shorthand for x = x . y, where . is the symbol for string concatenation. So "Hello," . " World!" yields "Hello, World!", and "a" .= "b" is the same as "a" = "a" . "b" and yields "ab".

Second, '<li class="page current">'</li>' is a string that contains an li element, and the li tag contains one attribute class="page current".

Presumably this code is in a loop, and what it is likely doing is building a set of <li> elements for an ordered or unordered list.

If there's anything else that is strange, or you're not sure of, please let me know.

jinhwa yoo
jinhwa yoo
10,042 Points
jinhwa yoo
jinhwa yoo
10,042 Points

thanks alot.. master...

jinhwa yoo
jinhwa yoo
10,042 Points
jinhwa yoo
jinhwa yoo
10,042 Points

$subString('&searchColumn=' . $searchColumn . '&searchText=' . $searchText;

$sql 'select count(*) as cnt from board_free where ' . $searchColumn .' like "%' . $searchText . '%"';

I don't understand.... plz, help me.