quote marks

kdalts

Guys... how would the following code need to be entered as PhP please..... It's the second set of single quotes that are causing me a problem

<a href="http://webquestpro.com" onmouseover="drc('Enter into the world of professional web marketing.','PlanMagic WebQuest Pro'); return true;" onmouseout="nd(); return
true;">WebQuestPro.com</a>

my attempt lloks like this... but it doesn't work.. don't know how to deal with the single quotes

<a href=\"http://webquestpro.com\" onmouseover=\"drc('Enter into the world of professional web marketing.','PlanMagic WebQuest Pro'); return true;\" onmouseout=\"nd(); return
true;\">WebQuestPro.com</a>

NogDog

The simple solution is to use "heredoc" quoting, then you don't have to worry about escaping quotes:

echo <<<END
<a href="http://webquestpro.com" onmouseover="drc('Enter into the world of professional web marketing.','PlanMagic WebQuest Pro'); return true;" onmouseout="nd(); return
true;">WebQuestPro.com</a>
END;
/*
the "END;" must be on a line by itself with no space/tabs before or after it
*/

bradgrafelman

kdalts wrote:
how would the following code need to be entered as PhP

Exactly as you wrote it:

<?php

echo "How do you write it? Like this:<br>";
?>
<a href="http://webquestpro.com" onmouseover="drc('Enter into the world of professional web marketing.','PlanMagic WebQuest Pro'); return true;" onmouseout="nd(); return
true;">WebQuestPro.com</a> 
<?php
echo "<br>See?";
?>

Other than that, or using heredoc syntax as NogDog suggested, your question is a bit ambiguous. All you're doing is outputting a string, so simply escape whatever delimiter you used for that string.

kdalts

the output is part of the $output variable to display in a module...

$output = <a href =\"#\" class=\"hintanchor\" onMouseover=\"showhint('$tip1', this, event, '$tt')\">test</a>";

So there are quote marks all over the place. $tt is actually a variable that determines the size of the popup and $tip1 is the value of the tip. This all works well as normal html.

The javascript is in the tpl_main.php file and the styles are in the css file... I have lots of similar code like this for onclick's etc and they all work - except this one and the only difference is the single quote marks.

Can 'heredoc' quoting be used where the string is for the $output variable? If so, what would the $output variable look like please?

Unless somene has a better popup script that doesnt use single quotes but can accept variable content?

NogDog

Just replace the echo <<<END in my prior reply with $output = <<<END.

kdalts

Just a blank screen

$output . = <<< END
<td class="sectionHeading"><a href ="#" class="hintanchor" onMouseover="showhint('text', this, event, '$tt')">test</a>
END;

NogDog

Perhaps I misunderstood you. The last version assigns the string to the variable $output. Unless you later echo/print that variable, there will be nothing to see.

NogDog

PS: The space between the "." and the "=" will cause a syntax error.