What does %S mean in PHP, HTML or XML?

Question

I\'m looking at Webmonkey\'s PHP and MySql Tutorial, Lesson 2. I think it\'s a php literal. What does %s mean? It\'s inside the print_f() function i

Answer 1

In printf, %s is a placeholder for data that will be inserted into the string. The extra arguments to printf are the values to be inserted. They get associated with the placeholders positionally: the first placeholder gets the first value, the second the second value, and so on.