[ACCEPTED]-How to use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']-php

Accepted answer

Score: 21

Without quotes PHP interprets the REQUEST_URI as a constant but corrects your typo error if there is 10 no such constant and interprets it as string.

When 9 error_reporting includes E_NOTICE, you would probably get an error 8 such as:

Notice: Use of undefined constant 7 REQUEST_URI - assumed 'REQUEST_URI' in <file path> on 6 line <line number>

But if there is a constant with this 5 name, PHP will use the constant’s value 4 instead. (See also Array do's and don'ts)

So always use quotes when you mean a string. Otherwise it can have 3 unwanted side effects.

And for the difference 2 of single and double quoted strings, see 1 the PHP manual about strings.

Score: 4

The first one is wrong - you're actually 3 looking for a constant REQUEST_URI that doesn't exist. This 2 will generate a notice-level warning.

There's 1 no difference between the other two.

Score: 3

There is a difference between single and 12 double quotes in PHP string handling. A 11 string enclosed in double quotes will be 10 evaluated for embedded variables and escape 9 characters (e.g. \n); a string enclosed 8 in single quotes won't (or not as much).

So, for 7 example,

$hello = "world";

echo "Hello $hello!\n";
echo 'Hello $hello!\n';
echo 'Done';

will output

Hello world!
Hello $hello!\nDone

In 6 situations where you have no escape characters 5 or embedded variables, it is slightly more 4 efficient to use single quotes as it requires 3 less processing of the string by the runtime. However, many 2 people (me included) prefer to use double 1 quotes for all strings to save confusion.

Score: 1

As a caveat to Gumbo's answer the third 6 representation - double quotes - actually 5 makes PHP look for variables inside that 4 string. Thus that method might be a little 3 slower (although in a string of 11 characters 2 it'll be negligible - it's better practice 1 not to make PHP do that however).

Score: 1

When PHP comes across plain strings being 6 used as array keys it checks if there is 5 a constant with that name and if there isn't 4 it defaults it back to an array key. Therefore, not 3 using quote marks causes a slight performance 2 hit and there is a possibility that the 1 result will not be what you expect.

Source: stackoverflow.com

[ACCEPTED]-How to use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']-php

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