table widths 100%

Anon

Back tick your quotes if you're echoing html from php...ie:

echo "<table width=\"100%\">"

polson

So basically you're saying "Escape double quotes within double quotes and single quotes within single quotes" as that is true. All of the following are okay :

echo '<table width="100%">';

echo "<table width='100%'>";

echo '<table width=\'100%\'>';

echo "<table width=\"100%\">";

A wonderful tutorial that deals with this sort of thing is here :

http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/using-strings.php

Regarding what is preferred, in this case one might also want to consider breaking out of PHP so :

<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td>foo</td>
...

<?php

As printing out plain old HTML isn't optimal although it depends on the situation and this in itself could turn into a huge debate :-)

jolly

u sure?? i thought any html encountered by php was ignored..echo or print statements have to be executed. dont they?

polson

What do you mean? PHP LOVES HTML! :-)

<?php

echo '<b>I am bold</b>';

echo '<b>I\'m bold</b>';

All works perfectly. One can break in and out of PHP/HTML too so pretend the following is all one page :

// -- begin: watch php and html wage war -- //

<?php
echo 'hi <b>friend</b>';
?>

<br>What is up?!!!!
<br>I am doing well.

<?php
echo 'hi again <br><br>';
?>

Now this is html but I want php so <?php echo 'ahh, phew, back in php where everything is so comfortable and nice'; ?> doh! back in html but <?php echo ' ahh, php so nice'; ?> but html isn't so bad either. Okay, I am getting <?php print '<b>carried away here</b>'; ?> so will stop now :-)

// -- End demonstration -- //

Btw, I use ; as habit but <?php echo 'this works just fine' ?> too as the ?> ends the statement, read about that here :

http://php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.instruction-separation.php

And yes that is a seperate subject.

jolly

the point i was trying make was that anything php encounters outside of the <?php ?> tags is ignored and so logic suggests that is should be quicker...not that the difference makes much difference..anyway i'm begining to sound like my dad so i'll shut up.🙂