PHP and HTML

[Anon]

Hi,

I am a bit confused when I start to write codes within one or the other. eg. in HTML, I will use <?php ...... ?> to write PHP codes.

But how should I within <?php ... ?> write HTML codes? What are the general guidelines?

Thanks in advance!

[Anon]

If you are within the <?php and ?> tags then you need to put all of your HTML into print or echo. Once inside the PHP tags everything is interpreted as if it was part of the programming language which HTML is definately not.

[hurtbadly]

I use echo. Just have to remember to change all the " to \".

Example: echo "<font size=\"-1\">Blah</font>

[Anon]

Use the echo or print commands as you normally would to print the text string . . . except in this case, your text string happens to be HTML code. The main catch is wherever you normally use quotes (") in HTML, you need to use backslash and quotes (\").

Another common character I use is the new line character (\n). It makes the resulting HTML a little more readable.

Good luck.

[Anon]

print("<a href='http://www.link.com'>this is a link</a>");

or you could use the \" in place of the '

[Anon]

Thanks to all of you who answered my question, you all made my day 🙂