[RESOLVED] Variable trouble

Xaero

Hey guys, I'm not exactly the most experienced with PHP... I'm trying to basically take variables I have already defined and put them into another variable and then echo it to check it is coming out properly but it only displays firstname and lastname. I have the feeling it is to do with the < > 's i have inside the quotes but I'm not sure how to get around it as I need those in there.

$firstname = $_REQUEST['firstname']; 	
$surname = $_REQUEST['surname']; 
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];

$replytome = "$firstname $surname<$email>";

echo "$replytome";

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've probably done something really obvious and stupid 😃

Bjom

get rid of the " and use ' then concatenate, or use sprintf.
like so:

$replytome = $firstname . ' ' . $surname . '<' . $email '>';

$replytome = sprintf('%s %s <%s>', $firstname, $surname, $email);

Xaero

Thanks for the reply Bjom but it didn't seem to help =(
If I do it my way or I remove the < and > from the sprintf version it works fine, there must be SOME way I can include those symbols? Any ideas why it is ignoring it in the first place? Is it trying to interpret it as an html tag or something?

Thanks

bradgrafelman

Xaero wrote:
Is it trying to interpret it as an html tag or something?

That depends on what you mean by "it."

PHP is a server-side language, so it doesn't know what an HTML tag is (okay, we're not talking about DOM stuff). Your browser, on the other hand, will of course interpret it as an HTML tag (isn't that how all other HTML tags look?).

If you want to actually output the <>'s without having them interpreted as HTML, then use their HTML-safe equivalents < or > respectively (e.g. by using [man]htmlentities/man).

Xaero

OMG! How could I have missed something so obvious! Thanks brad.
Yea I know php doesn't interpret html tags, but I thought because it was in quotes it was reading them as plain text and therefore html tags and I was right but brain dead for the answer to eliminate the problem, I use stuff like   all the time how did this slip by me? xD

Thanks again mate =)