RE: [PHP] Re: Forms in PHP

>May I also suggest that you rewrite your echo statements as: > > echo '<OPTION VALUE="donate">Donate this item</OPTION>'; > >Vastly improves legibility. It's a problem, however, if you want to include a PHP variable in that echo statement, if you're populating a SELECT menu with a loop, for instance; $menu_options = array("A" => "Option 1", "B" => "Option 2", "C" => "Option 3"); foreach(array_keys($menu_options) as $option_value){ $option_text = $menu_options[$option_value]; echo '<OPTION VALUE="$option_value">$option_text</OPTION>'; } would just output <OPTION VALUE="$option_value">$option_text</OPTION> <OPTION VALUE="$option_value">$option_text</OPTION> <OPTION VALUE="$option_value">$option_text</OPTION> which is probably not the desired output :) You need to use double quotes for variable substitution. Unfortunately, if you want to maintain XHTML compliance the tag attributes have to be double-quoted too... echo "<OPTION VALUE=\"$option_value\">$option_text</OPTION>\n"; (Might as well add a "\n" at the end of the line for readability in the browser's 'View Source' window!)