On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 02:51:33PM -0400, Adam Reiswig wrote:
: 
: A couple of days ago I placed a post regarding using the $_POST[] 
: variable in an insert sql query.  Both
: 
: $sql="insert into $table set Name = '".$_POST['elementName']."'";
:   and
: $sql="insert into $table set Name = '{$_POST['elementName']}'";
: 
: worked perfectly.  Thanks to everyone for your help.  My question now is 
: regarding the curly brackets in the 2nd example.  Can anyone describe 
: why using the curly brackets works and/or how php processes them.  I 
: have read quite a bit about php and never come accross thier use in this 
: way.  Thanks again.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

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