[RESOLVED] Escaping CSS within PHP

SquirrelJ

I am trying to output a page with some css inside it but can't get it to work

here is the code

if ($mailsent) {
  echo "Congratulations $contactname ! The following message has been sent to our specilist gearbox colection service: <br><br>";
  [COLOR="Red"]echo "<span class="historydate">Name:</span> $contactname<br>";[/COLOR]
  echo "Order Number: $customerordernumber<br>";
  echo "Phone Number: $phonenumber<br>";
  echo "Fax Number: $faxnumber<br>";
  echo "Model Number: $modelnumber<br>";
  echo "Serial Number: $serialnumber<br>";
  echo "Size:$size<br>";
  echo "Weight: $weight<br>";
  echo "Packaging: $packaging<br>";
  echo "Number of Packages: $numberofpackages<br>";
  echo "Required Delivery Date: $reqdeldate<br>";
  echo "Handling Issues: $handlingissues<br>";
  echo "gearbox Application: $gearboxapplication<br>";
  echo "Failure Mode: $failuremode <br>";
} else {
  echo "There was an error...";
}
}

How do i get the red line to work correctly??? Also could i put this into an heredoc syntax??? If so how would i do that???

Cheers for any help

NogDog

Quotes within a quoted string literal need to be escaped:

  echo "<span class=\"historydate\">Name:</span> $contactname<br>";

Optionally, use single quotes within double quotes (or vice versa):

  echo "<span class='historydate'>Name:</span> $contactname<br>";

Heredoc:

echo <<<HTML
blah blah blah
<span class="historydate">Name:</span> $contactname<br>"
blah blah blah
HTML;

//

wilku

echo "<span class=\"historydate\">Name:</span> $contactname<br>";
//or
echo '<span class="historydate">Name:</span>'. $contactname.'<br>';
//or (this should be the best in this case, because you don't have to 
//remember about quotes and echoes
echo <<<END
<span class="historydate">Name:</span> $contactname<br>
and the rest of html lines
END;

EDIT: I'm getting slower 🙁

Weedpacket

Using syntax highlighting would have hinted at the problem

<?php
if ($mailsent) {
  echo "Congratulations $contactname ! The following message has been sent to our specilist gearbox colection service: <br><br>";
  echo "<span class="historydate">Name:</span> $contactname<br>";
  echo "Order Number: $customerordernumber<br>";
  echo "Phone Number: $phonenumber<br>";
  echo "Fax Number: $faxnumber<br>";
  echo "Model Number: $modelnumber<br>";
  echo "Serial Number: $serialnumber<br>";
  echo "Size:$size<br>";
  echo "Weight: $weight<br>";
  echo "Packaging: $packaging<br>";
  echo "Number of Packages: $numberofpackages<br>";
  echo "Required Delivery Date: $reqdeldate<br>";
  echo "Handling Issues: $handlingissues<br>";
  echo "gearbox Application: $gearboxapplication<br>";
  echo "Failure Mode: $failuremode <br>";
} else {
  echo "There was an error...";
}
}

And if heredoc was known of, then it wouldn't have taken much to find the relevant section of the manual, which would have not only explained how to use heredoc syntax, but also how to fix the original problem.

For a fourth solution, don't put everything inside echo statements; escape out of PHP and just output plain HTML, using PHP only for the bits that need it.

if ($mailsent) {
?>Congratulations <?php echo $contactname?> ! The following message has been sent to our specilist gearbox colection service: <br><br>
<span class="historydate">Name:</span> <?php echo $contactname?><br>
BLAH
<?php } else {

Ironically, there is no CSS here....

NogDog

Weedpacket wrote:
...
Ironically, there is no CSS here....

The style attribute may be considered the final "cascade" of the "cascading style sheets" for a document, as it is the final and most specific style specification for that element.

Weedpacket

I see no style attribute either 🙂

The class attribute isn't exclusively for CSS, and CSS selectors can refer to any attribute; but I suppose you could refer to "class" as being part of CSS, insofar as the CSS specification provides a special selector shorthand for referring to the attribute when used in (X)HTML documents.

NogDog

Eh...just my confused brain. There was a similar thread somewhere (maybe over at webdeveloper.com) that I was helping someone with that had to do with a style attribute, and I was confusing this thread with that one.

(Anyway, that's my story, and I'm sticking with it.)