Weird String happenings....

[SharkBait]

Ok I am trying to concat some strings together but its acting a bit odd and hopefully someone can explain to me why it is doing it.

 

<?php
$emails_addresses = array("thank you" => "blah@blah.com", "Kim" => "blah2@blah.com", "Bob" => "bob@bob.com",);
$email_group = array( 0 => array("thank you", "Kim"), array("thank you", "Bob") );

$string = "";

foreach($email_group[0] as $person) {
  $string .= "{$person} <{$email_addresses[$person]}>, ";
}

?>

Now what that does it because of the < and > it seems to strip out the email addresses. If i put spaces between the < and > so it looks like

 

thank you < blah@blah.com > as opposed to thank you <blah@blah.com> it will show up, but I am curious why the < and > are stripping the email from the string.

 

I have also done it this way and the same thing happens:

 

<?php
$string .= $person . " <". $email_addresses[$person] .">, ";
?>

 

Am I missing some concept of strings?? Eventually this is what I want to have happen:

 

$string = "thank you <blah@blah.com>, Kim <blah@blah.com>";

 

 

** Note: Why is it I type T y together it comes up as Thank you ?? I don't have any weird text replace macros running on my machine.

[Jessica]

because < and > are HTML open and close tags. So the browser thinks that is HTML.

Use < and >

instead or run htmlentities on it first.

 

I've been gone a while but maybe the forum has a no-chatspeak rule

[MadTechie]

it works fine..

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[SharkBait]

Oh yea.. silly me I forgot about that Thanks!