echo statement showing up in browser

sean_paul

I'm creating a web site that will show a different background each time the page is visited.

here's the code:

<?
$pictures = array("dollar1.gif", "dollar2.gif", "dollar3.gif", "dolllar4.gif", "dollar5.gif", "dollar6.gif" , "dollar7.gif" , "dollar8.gif", "dollar9.gif" , "dollar10.gif" , "dollar11.gif");
shuffle($pictures);
echo "<body>"
echo "<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" background="images/backgrounds/>";
echo $pictures[$0];
echo "">";

?>

here's the link: http://www.caillouette.com/pixellux_web/

why is

" echo ""; ?>

showing up in my browser window?

Thanks in advance

theeper

Try this instead.

<?
$pictures = array("dollar1.gif", "dollar2.gif", "dollar3.gif", "dolllar4.gif", "dollar5.gif", "dollar6.gif" , "dollar7.gif" , "dollar8.gif", "dollar9.gif" , "dollar10.gif" , "dollar11.gif");
shuffle($pictures);
echo "<body>";
echo "<body leftmargin=\"0\" topmargin=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" background=\"images/backgrounds/";
echo $pictures[0];
echo "\">";
?>

sean_paul

I tried the backslashes earlier and I cut an pasted your code and it doesn't work.

For some reason I still get "; echo ""; ?> in my browser window.

Could it have something to do with the fact that my host recently set everyone up with their own php.ini file. So I have a fresh php.ini file. Maybe I need to switch on magic quotes or something.

any help is greatly appreciated

eternalprophet

<?
$pictures = array("dollar1.gif", "dollar2.gif", "dollar3.gif", "dolllar4.gif", "dollar5.gif", "dollar6.gif" , "dollar7.gif" , "dollar8.gif", "dollar9.gif" , "dollar10.gif" , "dollar11.gif");
shuffle($pictures);
echo "<body>";
echo "<body leftmargin=\"0\" topmargin=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" background=\"images/backgrounds/" . $pictures[0] . " \>"; 
?>

Try the above

You may still get "; echo ""; ?> because.... (maybe, not definately)

You get "; echo""; ?> in your browser because it appears the quotes have been inserted improperly (I could be wrong). Try the code I listed, if that doesnt work, check this line, it looks problematic (I did change it in my version, but I am not perfect by any means)

echo "\">";

if you want a \ to apear, i think you need to double it. \" would be for if you had to nest double quotes in a string. (\ should output a backslash I think)

Keep in mind, I am a newbie, but I think the code above may work (first set of code)

eternalprophet

Might want to take out

echo "<body>";

Not sure why that is in there, you would have two body tags that way, I do not believe the first one is necessary.

blindeddie

It looks like the body tag is being malformed due to improper concatenation (sound impressive huh?) try the following. replace the three echo statements with just this one statement, and always remember to use Single Quotes inside of double quotes....

echo "<body leftmargin='0' topmargin='0' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0' background='images/backgrounds/".$pictures[0]."'>";

blindeddie

Sean Paul,

I just went to look at your page and when I view the source, I can see the PHP code in the source code... This should not be... are you sure that php is running on the server your pages are on? If php is not installed then nothing we do here tohelp is going to work. If it is installed,then there are other problems in the code. if it is installed on the server, post the whole page of code so I can take a look.

eternalprophet

is it saved as .php?

blindeddie

I was just about to say the same thing.

sean_paul

My host, Prohosting, reecently set up a php.ini page for each hosting account. So I have a fresh php.ini file. I had to turn on register globals to make some earlier shopping cart code work. But the shopping cart, built in php, worked just fine.

I'll contact my host and see if it's on their end.

Thanks everyone

😕

sean_paul

I was saving my page as a .html page instead of a .php page.

Thanks forr being patient with me.