How can I make the following spit out proper HTML? (i.e. having quotations around $vendor_name)
echo "<input type='text' name='$vendor_name' value='$vendor_name'>";
Just escape your double quotes echo "<input type=\"text\">";
echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"$vendor_name\" value=\"$vendor_name\">";
thank you thank you...
echo <<<EOF <input type='text' name='{$vendor_name}' value='{$vendor_name}'> EOF;