At the moment this is just curiosity. It's not related to an ECT template

Why the difference in using a single quote ' & a semicolon ; in the first line as against the double quote " & no semicolon followed by a space in the second line?

<?php include 'footer.php';?>

<?php include "folder/inc/footer.php" ?>

Steve

Bolton Lancashire England

Hi Steve
Good question. But in this case very little.
Statements in PHP have to be terminated with a semi-colon, but the ?> to end a PHP block will also end a statement so the semi colon here isn't necessary.
And strings in double quotes will have their contents parsed for variables. So you could use for instance...
<?php
$myvar=277;
print "The value is $myvar";
?>
And that would display
The value is 277
In single quotes that would display
The value is $myvar
But as in this case there are no variables, again there would be no difference.

Vince


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Hi Vince

Thanks for that, much clearer now

Steve

Bolton Lancashire England