Sending background color values into functions

Lcousins

Hi all,

todays problem is that Im trying to insert a colour value (#669966) into a function. problem is the colour mysteriously changes once its within the function, even though looking at the source code iits the correct color value.

calling the function

<?
aheader('#669966');
?>

the relevant parts of the function:

<?
function aheader($bcol) {
?>
 <table width="100%" height="437" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="
<?
echo $bcol;
?>
">

any ideas what is going wrong and how to do it right??

thanks

mmilano

there is a line break after bgcolor="

this is causing the miscoloration

to fix it start the php tag after that line bgcolor="<?

here are a couple different ways of doing that:

<?
echo "test a: <br>";

function aheader($bcol) 
{ 
  echo "
  <table width='100%' height='437' border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' bgcolor='" . $bcol . "'>
  <tr>
    <td> &nbsp; </td>
  </tr>
  </table>";
}

aheader('#003366');


echo "<br><br>test b: <br>";

function bheader($bcol) { 
?> 
 <table width="100%" height="437" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="<? 
echo $bcol; 
?>">
 <tr>
  <td> &nbsp; </td>
 </tr>
 </table>
<?
}

bheader('#003366');
?>

hope this helps =)

Lcousins

Ive actually narrowed it down further than that now,

bgcolor="996699">

the above works, whereas the following doesnt:

bgcolor="
<?
echo "996699";
?>
">

in the latter, it comes up as a light blue instead of purple, if I add the '#' then I actually get a different color again in a dark blue!

very confused

Lcousins

sorry mmilano, I didnt see your post untl after my second post, thats great, thanks!!