displaying check in checkbox

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I'm not sure why the following code won't work.

	$publish = "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"publish\" value=\"1\"";
				$pstatus = $row['view'];
					if ($pstatus == "1"){
						$sel = "checked";
				}else{
					$sel = "";

		$published = $publish." $sel>"; 
	echo $published;

}

Nothing at all displays. I'm using similar code elsewhere on the same page without any problems. I change the value of $pstatus to 1 and still nothing echoed. I also tried echoing $pstatus and did not see anything. I looked at the ouput source code and did not see any errors or anything echoed.

This is probably an easy one.

Any ideas?

[xblue]

I really recommend to indent your code.
you'd probably want to close the else block after you assigned $sel, otherwise the echo statement will only be executed if $pstatus is not 1.

[Christian_B_]

The two rows

        $published = $publish." $sel>"; 
    echo $published;

must be outside the else-statement.

Christian