Setting A Variable

[alecthorne]

Beginners question, I know.

 

I have a variable $name (in this case 311)

 

This needs to be inserted into another variable named param_title, so the result returns

 

'{"metadata.title": "311",

 

I have tried this with the following, but it does not return a result

 

$params_title="'{"metadata.title":\"$name",";

 

What am I doing wrong??

 

Thanks, Alec

[Christian F.]

If you take a look in the PHP manual on strings, I think you should be able to figure it out yourself. Take a close look at how the examples are done, and then compare them to your code.

 

Though, by the looks if the code, it seems you might be looking for arrays and json_encode () as well. In any case, I highly recommend reading through the PHP manual and sinking your teeth into some PHP tutorials.

[alecthorne]

Christian,

 

Thanks for the pointer. I worked in the following format

 

$params_title="'{\"metadata.title\": \"{$name}\",";

 

Thanks!!

 

Alec

[ManiacDan]

If you're building a json string (for javascript) then you're doing it the long, complicated, and incorrect way.  Christian showed you json_encode, you'll probably want to switch to that at some point.