Placing BOLD text inside variables

[Anon]

How can I put bold text inside a variable.
For example:

$msg = "Your IP: $REMOTE_ADDR"
and I want to make Your IP BOLD, how do i do it.
Ive already tried:
$msg = "<strong>Your IP:</strong> $REMOTE_ADDR" but all I get is the transcript...when I call $msg I get:
<strong>Your IP:</strong> 158.98.562.1
and it even ain't bold.🙂

[cordex]

How about:

$msg = "<b>Your IP:</b> $REMOTE_ADDR";

[Anon]

nope.. all I get is the same as with <strong>

[jlpierce]

I have used this technique, it is probably not the best way to achieve this but it works for me.

$strongon = "<STRONG>";
$strongoff = "</STRONG>";

echo $stronon . "Your IP: " . $strongoff . $REMOTE_ADDR;

If you are interspersing with html, you can use the php opening and closing tag to include the output in say a <TD> tag.

<TD> <? above code inserted here ?> </TD>

Hope this helps.

John

[Anon]

nope.. that the same thing like the example I described.. what I wan't is

$name= "<strong>YOUR NAME</strong> is $nm"

now when I say echo "$name" I get: <strong>YOUR NAME</strong> is Tom
instead of:
<b>YOUR NAME</b> is Tom

[jlpierce]

Ok, a couple of things, if you are inside of a php bracket then remove the double quotes from around the variable. It should read echo $name; not echo "$name".

Also check to make sure you are really inside of a php block with an opening and closing php tag, <?php ?> or the shorter <? ?> tag.

You also need to make sure that you are inside of an HTML tag. ie: your code here .

It sounds to me like the latter is the problem, from your last post it seems that the variable is being expanded by php but if you are outside of you html tags then the browser will interpret the <STRONG> tags, it will just render text. As if you were browsing a directory.

What you are trying to do and what I do works fine for me all the time. If you are outside of the HTML tags the browser will just assume that you want the text rendered, and not take note of the tags in your variable.

John