what is this "$" sign in echo $row ?

[gether]

what is it called in php ?

[simplypixie]

Dollar Sign - it doesn't have a special name.

However, if you mean what does it represent in PHP then it is always required to indicate a variable.

[gether]

you mean a variable name of our choice comes after the "$" sign ?

[simplypixie]

Yes

[gether]

but the variable name row is something that we cannot assign as a variable name ?

because it is a special variable name ...?

[simplypixie]

No it is not a special name, it is just used a lot when looping through arrays, for example

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while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo $row['id'];
}

However you could also use any name you like

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while ($sausage = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo $sausage['id'];
}

[gether]

since i am learning html php and mysql

few things keeps coming in different forms...



$row
$_GET

variable name
variable value

labelname
labelvalue

feildname
feildvalue

[simplypixie]

Sorry I don't know what your question is. However, I would learn HTML first and then move to PHP they are 2 very different coding languages and you may just confuse yourself trying to learn both at the same time.

[gether]

yea i just get confused with some of the php reserved words ...

with variable names that we assign for some purpose ..

[seandisanti]

the dollar sign designator bypasses a lot of the issues you have in other languages with reserved words. The only place where you could really screw something up by using a reserved word would be with function and class names, since the identifiers are not prefixed with the dollar sign. The number of words you could cause issues with is fairly limited though and pretty common sense. If you're trying to declare new function if() for example, it won't work as intended and you'll get fatal errors.