Re: can't work out the syntax error
| From: | John Wells | Date: | Thu, 04 May 2006 13:28:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: can't work out the syntax error | ||
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On 5/4/06, Brad Bonkoski <bbonkoski@mediaguide.com> wrote:
try this: echo "<TD WIDTH=\"25%\" ALIGN=\"CENTER\">Or wrap the variables with curly braces so that PHP knows what's a variable and what's not: [php] echo "<TD WIDTH=\"25%\" ALIGN=\"CENTER\"> <A HREF=\"javascript:open_window('{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?action=view_record&userid=$userid');\">View</A> [/php] Personally, I get tired (and confused) when having to escape all of those quotes like in the string you're trying to echo above. Perhaps you'd consider HEREDOC as an alternative approach: [php] echo<<<HEREDOC <TD WIDTH="25%" ALIGN="CENTER"> <A HREF="javascript:open_window('{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?action=view_record&userid=$userid');">View</A> HEREDOC; [/php] If you haven't read about HEREDOC before, RTFM because there are some rules you should know about it... HTH, John W<AHREF=\"javascript:open_window('".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?action=view_record&userid=$userid');\">View</A> -------------------------------------------^-------------------------------^ concatenate the $_SERVER variable to the string...