Quotes question

[buffness80]

To make a long story short I need to figure out how to get quotes to work in a script like this:

$main_menu = "<a href="add_player.php" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Add Player Card','','Images/button_add_player_over.jpg',1)"><img src="Images/button_add_player_off.jpg" alt="Add Player Card" name="Add Player Card" width="110" height="20" border="0" id="Add Player Card" /></a>";

With all those extra " in there it won't work in the PHP file. This is for a mouseover image and for some reason single quotes ( ' ) will not work. It allows the script to work but the mouseover image doesn't work. When I replace the ' with " it works just fine. This is just a general example but it's the same concept that I've been struggling with for a while...I'm somewhat new as you can probably tell, 😃 .

Thanks in advance.

[Kudose]

You need to escape the double quotes.

$main_menu = "<a href=\"add_player.php\" onmouseout=\"MM_swapImgRestore()\" onmouseover=\"MM_swapImage('Add Player Card','','Images/button_add_player_over.jpg',1)\"><img src=\"Images/button_add_player_off.jpg\" alt=\"Add Player Card\" name=\"Add Player Card\" width=\"110\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" id=\"Add Player Card\" /></a>";

That was a lot of double quotes to escape ... whew.

[buffness80]

DOH! I've seen those \ before but didn't know why you needed them...now I know. Thanks for the extremely quick response Kudose and more importantly...thank you for not calling me an idiot, haha.

Have a great day.

[Kudose]

🙂

No problem ... Have a great day as well.