i ask the dumbest questions...

FrozNic

i'd search for this, but i'm not exactly sure what i'd search for..

how would write this correctly so there's no parse errors?

$redText = <td align="center" height="1" bgcolor=" <? $color;?>"><strong><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="red">

basically i just need to know what way the slashes go... / or \ thanks 🙂

JakesSA

leatherback

Eeehh..
$redText suggests that you are in a PhP section of your page. Although.. <? $color;?> suggests the opposite..!?

Anyway. The slashes go like: \"

sgoku01

You want to assign a string to a PHP var. So you are working in PHP. When you are working in PHP, you don't have to place <?php of <? in front of every var.. :/

So do somthing like this:

<?php
$redText = "<td align=\"center\" height=\"1\" bgcolor=\"" . $color . "\"><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"red\">";

Like leatherback said: To print quotes without parsing errors, place a \ in front of them..

edwardsbc

OR....

$redText = '<td align="center" height="1" bgcolor="'.$color.'"><strong><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="red">';

...which is far more readable and slightly faster. Only use double quotes when you want php to parse the string for variables. Since you contcatenating in the only variable, you don't need to use double quotes.

BTW, use style sheets instead of font tags if at all possible.

FrozNic

thanks tons guys

cdbsi

even better...

$redText = "<td align='center' height='1' bgcolor='$color'><b><font size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' color='red'>";

RedDragon

Originally posted by cdbsi
even better...

$redText = "<td align='center' height='1' bgcolor='$color'><b><font size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' color='red'>";

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i would not suggest anyone using this construction...

the html parameters are not quoted correct, some tags will just not work eg: a tag when xhtml specification

Weedpacket

Originally posted by RedDragon
the html parameters are not quoted correct, some tags will just not work eg: a tag when xhtml specification

Dunno what this means; they all look like they're quoted just fine to me. I don't find anything in the spec that would make the quoting used invalid; HTML 4 says all attribute values should be quoted, XML1, XHTML1 and XHTML2 say they must be quoted, and all four allow both single and double quotes.

My gripe with it compared with the other solutions is that it's detectably slower running.

RedDragon

well using the a tag in a xhtml (strict) declined document with single quotes did not work for me...

Weedpacket

Originally posted by RedDragon
well using the a tag in a xhtml (strict) declined document with single quotes did not work for me...

Errr... whatever; I've had no trouble. Validates, renders, the whole show.