PHP &lt;img 'else' problem

PHP <img 'else' problem

Anon

I am new at PHP, and would appreciate any help available. I am trying to display a image file on my site using the 'else' function. I have a collum in MySQL database titled "image" containing a name of a file (not in a file format).

I've used the following code, as I don't want a broken image displayed when the collum "image" is blank:

<?
if (pv($prod->image) == 0) {
echo (" ");
}
else {
echo ("<class=label> Image
<class=normal><img src="\images/cart/products/<? pv($prod->image) ?>.jpg">");
}
?>

The above code results in a "parse" error. Even though the following code does work:

<img src="\images/cart/products/<? pv($prod->image) ?>.jpg">

Also if I remove the <img extention to the echo, the html ( Image) is not displayed in the web browser when (pv($prod->image) == 1) (i.e. the file is present)

What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions taken. Thanks in advance.

Luke.

terje-s

Well, okay. First things first.

echo("Text");

echos "Text" to the browser, I assume you understand that.

echo("<? pv($prod->image) ?>");

echos "<? pv($prod->image) ?>" to the browser. This means that the above text is actually sent to the browser, and NOT parsed by PHP (wich is a server-side language, remember?)

So, what you need to make this work, is loose the quotes, so it's treated as a function (wich it is), and not as text;

echo(pv($prod->image));

Now, if you want to echo a quote ('"') to the browser, you'd do the following;

echo("\"");

Put a slash in front of the quote to escape it, so PHP knows that this is not the end of a string. You escape the 'i' in 'images', not the quote.

To combine a string with output from a function, use '.' to concatenate it, i.e.:

echo("this is a string containing function output: " . some_function() . ", wich is nice.");

What you want to do is most likely;

echo("<class=label> Image
<class=normal><img src=\"images/cart/products/".pv($prod->image).".jpg\">");

Or something like that.. 🙂 In a hurry, hope I didn't miss anything important 😛

Anon

Thank you for your reply Terje! I gave it a try, fortunately there was no error msg, but unfortunately no link/broken image was displayed on the screen whatsoever. I've gone over the general <img src="" tag, but I can't seem to find the problem.

Any suggestions?
Luke