How to put a string into echo()...

[booms]

I'm building a function which essentially echo's out things such as HTML headers for a page. The problem is that I can't figure out how to put a variable in without having any trailing spaces. Here is an example:

echo("
<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"$Local_PathToHomeDir styles/main.css\" type=\"text/css\" /> ");

How can I eliminate the space between $Local_PathToHomeDir and the styles/main.css string? I'd prefer not to break it into several echos, etc.

Thanks,

Brandon

[vsego]

You can use concatenation: echo "...".$Local_PathToHomeDir."styles/main.css..."
or {}: "...${Local_PathToHomeDir}styles/main.css..."

[Anon]

Thanks a lot, the ${} method is just what I was looking for.

• Brandon

(New to PHP, but not web dev / programming)

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... and you can always just print the three parts seperately:

echo '<link rel="stylesheet" href="';
echo $Local_PathToHomeDir;
echo 'styles/main.css" type="text/css" /> ";

But my favourite, is concatenation, because that doesn't mess up your syntax-highlighting and is a lot more readable than the other methods:

echo '<link rel="stylesheet" href="'.$Local_PathToHomeDir.'styles/main.css" type="text/css">';