PHP variables in HTML

phenley

Hi,

This is probably a stupid question but, is it possible to make php variables reusable in the html code after the php scripting is finished (see example below). I believe i could put the entire php script in the value=" ", but i'd rather reference the $max variable if its possible.

Also on a separate is it possible to retrieve and display using just HTML the current time and date

Megahertza

Yes you can, it works the same way but you have HTML surrounding it..

<?php
$sql="SELECT Count(*) FROM Customers"; 
$rs=odbc_exec($conn,$sql); 
while(odbc_fetch_row($rs)) 
{ 
$max=odbc_result($rs,1); 
} 
?>
<input name="CustomerNo" type="text" maxlength="5" value="<?php echo "$max"; ?>">

phenley

Thanks Megahertza that was exactly what i was looking for.

I actually got kindda close as at one stage i did try

but as i left out the echo the field was just displaying $max so i though that maybe the php variables only existed within the
<?php ..... ?> structure.

Megahertza

while the page is being generated the variables are remembered so you can go in and out of PHP and HTML as much as you want and the variable $stuff will be all ways be $stuff