Question

I am wondering if its possible to declare a symbol constant in php I want to make use of a * on a form label in several places which must be red and thought the easiest way to do this would be to make use of a global constant and then style it red in CSS. I just want to know how I would go about this. thanks

 <td id="form">
 <label for="customer_name">customer Name*:</label>
 </td>
 //i want to be able to style the * only

Answer 1

Not possible. Constants in PHP must match this regex:

[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*

Therefore, the only “symbol constant” you could do is _

Example code:

define('_', 1);
echo(_);

Proof: http://codepad.org/1lcDEdMb