PHP + jquery echo

[amax]

Hi All, can someone please help me get my head straight on this little matter. I am playing about with jquery and PHP to pass it variables e.g.

<img onclick="javascript:switchImage('<?php echo $thumb1; ?>', '<?php echo $thumb1Caption; ?>');" src="<?php echo $thumb1; ?>"/>

My silly question is - "Do I always need to echo a PHP variable?". Is there an alternative in the line above to always using php echo for $myVariable ? I have obviously tried it without the echo and it doesnt work, but was wondering if there is an alternative, or if I am going about this the wrong way.
Would love to have someones advice on this

[big_nerd]

amax,

I would recommend doing it this way..

If you have short-tags enabled in your PHP.INI you could do:

<?=$thumb1 ?>

Or alternatively you could echo the entire <img onclick=.... string

<?php
echo "<img onclick=\"javascript:switchImage('$thumb', '$thumb1Caption');" src="$thumb1\"/>";
?>

Just be 100&#37; sure to escape (with a ) each 'Double Quote' used within the echo statement.

The method you are using is the one that I would prefer to use, however.

[amax]

Hi big.nerd, I really love the short-tags method above, makes it all look so much cleaner in there for me now. Thanks for your help. Fantastic

[dagon]

you shouldn't use short tags, they are being removed in php 6 (deprecated in 5.3), and you don't know if where you are going to host he script in the future has that feature enabled or not.