<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >String Operators</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Operators" HREF="language.operators.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Logical Operators" HREF="language.operators.logical.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Array Operators" HREF="language.operators.array.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.operators.logical.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Cap. 10. Operators</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.operators.array.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="language.operators.string" >String Operators</A ></H1 ><P > There are two <A HREF="language.types.string.html" ><B CLASS="type" >string</B ></A > operators. The first is the concatenation operator ('.'), which returns the concatenation of its right and left arguments. The second is the concatenating assignment operator ('.='), which appends the argument on the right side to the argument on the left side. Please read <A HREF="language.operators.assignment.html" >Assignment Operators</A > for more information. </P ><P > <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><P ></P ><A NAME="AEN2274" ></A ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br />$a </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#DD0000">"Hello "</font><font color="#007700">;<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$b </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">$a </font><font color="#007700">. </font><font color="#DD0000">"World!"</font><font color="#007700">; </font><font color="#FF8000">// now $b contains "Hello World!"<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$a </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#DD0000">"Hello "</font><font color="#007700">;<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$a </font><font color="#007700">.= </font><font color="#DD0000">"World!"</font><font color="#007700">; </font><font color="#FF8000">// now $a contains "Hello World!"<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ><P > See also the manual sections on the <A HREF="language.types.string.html" >String type</A > and <A HREF="ref.strings.html" >String functions</A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.operators.logical.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.operators.array.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Logical Operators</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.operators.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Array Operators</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >