Echo a &quot; for html?

Echo a " for html?

sendas

I am having trouble finding a sollution on displaying quotes like for the html code

how can this be done?

Piranha

echo "<img src=\"http://domain.com/picture.jpg\">";

Edited: Oops, wrong slash. Now it's edited and changed to be right.

sendas

Doesnt seem to work for me, what am I doing wrong. I get a
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';


<?php 
echo "<img src=/"http://quieter.noisier.net/pages/images/2004/07/skateboard.jpg/">"; 
?>

NogDog

Should have been back-slashes ("\") to escape the quotes:

echo "<img src=\"http://quieter.noisier.net/pages/images/2004/07/skateboard.jpg\">";

However, note that single quotes are valid for HTML attributes, so you could save yourself a little typing by doing:

echo "<img src='http://quieter.noisier.net/pages/images/2004/07/skateboard.jpg'>";

Or, since there's no variable interpolation in your string, you could invert the single and double quotes:

echo '<img src="http://quieter.noisier.net/pages/images/2004/07/skateboard.jpg">';

Lastly, you can use the "heredoc" method and use both types of quotes as desired without having to escape either (and also do variable interpolation):

echo <<<EOD
<img src='/images/$imageFile' alt="Alt Text">
EOD;
// note: the "EOD;" must not have any whitespace before it

bpat1434

Just as a side note, if you're not putting variables directly in strings, it's best to use single quotes. PHP won't parse variables in single quotes, so the load on the server is less and the parse time is less.

Now, typically I use all single quotes for two reasons:
1.) Speed. It's just faster.
2.) Dinstinguishable variables.

Is it better to see code like this:

<?php
echo "<html>
<head>
  <title>How's my little brother?</title>
  <script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\"><!--
  function showString(str) {
    alert(\"This is a message from the {$_GET[name]}:\n\"+str);
  }
  --></script>";

Or would it be easier to do this:

<?php
echo '<html>
<head>
  <title>How\'s my little brother?</title>
  <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"><!--
  function showString(str) {
    alert("This is a message from the '.$_GET[name].':'."\n"+str);
  }
  --></script>';

There are downsides to using single quotes, but for the most part, it tends to make for cleaner and quicker code.

HereDoc is touchy, and I haven't had too much success with it. It's just as easy to drop out of PHP and write the html as it is to do HEREDOC syntax.