Oh boy! I cant get this to work. Any ideas on what the heck I'm doing wrong? Here's the code.
I'm trying to echo the script but use a php function to get the directory of the js file!!
Any help would be appreicated!!
echo '<script src="<?php get_some_function();?> . /js/main.js"></script>';
I've tried dif scenerios with escaping but cant get this to output correctly.
Since you're already in the PHP context, you can simply concatenate the strings, like so:
echo '<script src="' . get_some_function() . '/js/main.js"></script>';
Using sprintf() looks more cleaner, though:
echo sprintf('<script src="%s/js/main.js"></script>', get_some_function());
Instead of opening another script tag inside the string, concat the string and echo. The <?php within your string will not be evaluated.
echo '<script src="'. get_some_function() . '/js/main.js"></script>';
Simple string concatenation:
echo '<script src="' . get_some_function() . '/js/main.js"></script>';
Don't forget to properly escape the output of your function!
try doing this:
echo '<script src="'.get_some_function().' /js/main.js"></script>';
or this:
$value = get_some_function();
echo '<script src="'.$value.' /js/main.js"></script>';
Remember that any variable echoed in single quotes ( ' ' ), the value of that variable will be not printed, and if a variable is echoed in double quotes ( " " ) it will be printed.
Similar is true for returned data from a function stored in a varaible. If you are using single quotes, then every php code (variable, or a method call of a class) should be concatenated using dot operator ( . , :P ) . If you are using double quotes, then no need to use . .
Like in all above answers, they have used . to append the php function call, your code may be fine as below also (not tested by me, so you will need to do adjustment) :
$src = get_some_function();
echo "<script src=$src/js/main.js></script>";
But please note that it is a best practice to use single quotes for any kind of html etc echoed in php code, because HTML attributes are using double quotes.
Hope this will help...
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I need to do something like this:
header("Content-Type: text/plain");
echo <<<EOT
<?php echo 'arbitrary code using ' . $variables . ' and such.';
echo 'finished';
?>
EOT;
The problem is, PHP still interprets the inline PHP as code and tries to execute it. I would like just to see the code printed in the window.
Use Nowdoc, notice the quotes around 'EOT':
echo <<<'EOT'
<?php echo 'arbitrary code using ' . $variables . ' and such.';
echo 'finished';
?>
EOT;
Or use a single quoted string, obviously escaping single quotes in the string:
echo '
<?php echo \'arbitrary code using \' . $variables . \' and such.\';
echo \'finished\';
?>';
You could use highlight_string function, it receives a string containing your php code and outputs html with the syntax highlight colors.
ex:
<?php highlight_string("<?php echo 'hi'; ?>");?>
You have also the function highlight_file, same thing, but receives a string with the file location.
Doc:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.highlight-string.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.highlight-file.php
I am having trouble with my PHP code. I've been changing everything for 6 hours and I still get Parse errors no matter what I do. This is the code:
$slider3 = '<img src="'templates/' . $this->template . '/images/slider/slider3.jpg'">' . '" alt="' . $sitename . '" />';
The only way I can figure to not get it to throw an error is by writing it this way:
$slider3 = '<img src="templates/" . $this->template . "/images/slider/slider3.jpg" . "/>"';
but I don't think that's right.
I want $slider3 = "templates/MYTEMPLATE/images/slider/slider3.jpg" then later I will echo $slider3;
I get so confused with all the single and double quotation marks. I think the first one is right - I look at it and study it and it looks right to me. But it throws a parse error.
$slider3 = '<img src="templates/'.$this->template.'/images/slider/slider3.jpg"/>';
should work.
Explanation:
'<img src="templates/'
is a single-quoted string, which happens to contain a double-quote (which is needed for the html src attribute, or any other html attribute value really)
.
(dot) is the string concatenation operator. It concatenates ("glues") the first string together with...
$this->template
which is presumably a string containing the name of the template (not clear from your code example). Note that if $this->template comes from user input, or an otherwise unvalidated source, it could be used for cross-site scripting, eg. if it contains "><script>alert("XSS!")<script>, javascript is executed in the browser!
.
another concatenation with...
'/images/slider/slider3.jpg"/>'
which is another single-quoted string which happens to contain a double-quote, ending the src attribute value.
Try this:
$slider3 = '<img src="templates/"' . $this->template . '"/images/slider/slider3.jpg"/>';
$template = "MYTEMPLATE";
$slider3 = '<img src="templates/'.$template.'/images/slider/slider3.jpg"/>';
echo $slider3;
Will echo - >
<img src="templates/MYTEMPLATE/images/slider/slider3.jpg"/>
Just write:
<?php
$templates = "var";
echo "<img src='templates/${templates}/images/slider/slider3.jpg'/>";
it will result in
<img src='templates/var/images/slider/slider3.jpg'/>
Am echoing php variables which works fine but when i tried to output image, nothing seems to work
working.php
echo ("addMarker($lat, $lon,'<b>$name</b>$address<br><br>$desc');\n");
not_working.php
for image display, i added
<img src='http://localhost/services/status/" .$pic. "'>
hence
echo ("addMarker($lat, $lon,<img src='http://localhost/services/status/" .$pic. "'>,'<b>$name</b>$pic<br><br>$desc');\n");
Any Help
The php documentation about strings should clarify your issue, i hope. In simple words, variables are not expanded (parsed) in single quotes.
Best solution is to use sprintf:
sprintf('<img src="http://localhost/services/status/%s">', $pic);
OK solution:
echo '<img src="http://localhost/services/status/' . $pic . '">'
Not so ok solution:
echo "<img src=\"http://localhost/services/status/$pic\">"
I have this php line which works fine:
echo "<p>" . $post['message']. "</p>";
But I want to change it so it will link to my page (not to a single post). So it should look like that.
echo "<p>" . $post['message']. "</p>";
I have tried a lot many proposition gathered on different website, but each time I am getting an error.
Any idea ?
Thanks a lot!
Using single and double quotes, you avoid escaping issues. Try this:
echo '<p>'. $post['message']. '</p>';
i see that you didn't escaped from double quote that closes href attribute:
echo "<p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/rscmovement\" target=\"_blank\">"
I guess You have missed the back slash () before " after www.facebook.com/rscmovement.
"https://www.facebook.com/rscmovement\" "\"target=\"_blank\">" will
I am trying to print a variable value within the javascript function. If the variable is an integer ($myInteger) it works fine, but when I want to access text ($myText) it gives an error.
<?php $myText = 'some text';
$myInteger = '220';
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
<?php print("var myInteger = " . $myInteger . " ;\n");?> //works fine
<?php print("var myText = " . $myText . " ;\n");?> //doens't work
</script>
Can anyone explain to me why this happens and how to change it?
The problem with your code from the question is that the generated Javascript code will be missing quotes around the string.
You could add quotes to the output manually, as follows:
print("var myText = '". $myText. "';\n");
However, note that this will break if the string itself contains quotes (or new-line characters, or a few others), so you need to escape it.
This can be dealt with using the addslashes() function, among others, but this may still have issues.
A better approach would be to use PHP's built-in JSON functionality, which is designed specifically for generating Javascript variables, so it will do all the escaping for you correctly.
The function you're looking for is json_encode(). You'd use it as follows:
print("var myText = ". json_encode($myText). ";\n");
This will work with any variable type -- integer, string, or even an array.
Hope that helps.
Without more code we don't really know what you're trying to do or what error you're getting (or from where even), but if I had to guess:
If you are putting a string of text into a javascript variable, you probably need to quote it.
<?php print("var myText = '" . $myText . "' ;\n");?>
---^^^-------------^^^----
// Or even better:
<?php print("var myText = '$myText' ;\n");?>
ADDENDUM Per the comment below, don't use this if you expect your $myText to contain quotes.