How to PHP echo when using multiple quotes - php

Question

How should I quote this:
<tr onclick="$.colorbox({href:'information1.html'});">
When put in an echo " "; ?
I have tried this:
echo "<tr onclick='$.colorbox({href:'information1.html'});'>";
Which shows a Jquery error.
And I tried this:
echo "<tr onclick="$.colorbox({href:'information1.html'});">";
Which shows a PHP error.
Any workarounds? Thanks

Answer 1

You need to escape the quotes symbols:
echo '<tr onclick="$.colorbox({href:\"information1.html\"});">'
Note that using inline script is not considered to be a good practice!
echo '<tr class="foo">'
In the javascript code:
$('.foo').click(function() {
$.colorbox({ href: "information1.html" });
});​

Answer 2

Simply escape the quotes. Whilst on this subject I feel it important to mention the fact that generally speaking, you should use single quotes for 'code' and double quotes only for displayed strings.
This stems from C standards and keeping this consistent will help you in the future if for example you wanted to implement gettext() and translate your website into multiple languages.
echo '<tr onclick="$.colorbox({href:\'information1.html\'});\">';
Having said that, there's a better way to achieve what you're doing. Give the row an id:
<tr id="inforow" />
And use jQuery to bind to it's click event when the DOM is ready.
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".inforow").click(function() {
$.colorbox({href:'information1.html'});
});
});

Answer 3

Anytime you want to print a string with a quote in it, just use the escape character '\' to ignore the quote as a literal closing quote, like so:
echo "<tr onclick=\"$.colorbox({href:'information1.html'});\">";

Answer 4

echo "<tr onclick=\"$.colorbox({href:'information1.html'});\">";

Answer 5

echo "<tr onclick=\"$.colorbox({href:'information1.html'});\">";

Answer 6

Try that:
echo "<tr onclick=\"$.colorbox({href:'information1.html'});\">";

Answer 7

I would use PHP-methods instead of caring about the quotes
echo '<tr onclick="'.
htmlentities('$.colorbox('.json_encode(array('href'=>'information.html'))).')">';
...will always create proper JSON and proper HTML, no matter what characters you use.

Answer 8

NO NEED to quote it.
NO NEED to put in an echo " ";
Just leave it AS IS:
?>
<tr onclick="$.colorbox({href:'information1.html'});">
<?
as well as any other HTML.
It's PHP. It's embedded in HTML. You can leave PHP mode any time

Answer 9

Another way is using EOD
$string = <<<EOD
"duble quotation" and 'quotation' all enable
EOD;
echo $string;