Error with print function

bakercreative

I'm getting an error with the line highlighted in red when I preview the page in Internet Explorer. I've tested it without this piece of code and no errors are returned. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with my use of ' and "

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks

print '<table>
<tr>
<td>hello bmi</td><td><select name="jumpMenu" size="1" class="tabledata" id="jumpMenu">
<option value="test_search_results.php?project=">Choose a project type</option>
<option value="test_search_results.php?project=phoneshop">Phoneshop</option>
<option value="test_search_results.php?project=pfs">PFS</option>
<option value="test_search_results.php?project=car park">Car Park</option>
<option value="test_search_results.php?project=internals">Internals</option>
</select></td>
<td><input type="button" name="go_button2" id= "go_button2" value="Submit" onclick="MM_jumpMenuGo('jumpMenu','parent',0)" /> </td>
</tr>
</table>';

dagon

you need to escape the ' within the sting with a [/B] as you are using them to mark the begging and end in the function.

bakercreative

Hi Dagon,
I'm very new to PHP and not sure how to do this. Can you point out exactly these should go please?

thanks

Emma

bakercreative;10973562 wrote:

print '<table>
		<tr>
		<td>hello bmi</td><td><select name="jumpMenu" size="1" class="tabledata" id="jumpMenu">
            <option value="test_search_results.php?project=">Choose a project type</option>
            <option value="test_search_results.php?project=phoneshop">Phoneshop</option>
            <option value="test_search_results.php?project=pfs">PFS</option>
            <option value="test_search_results.php?project=car park">Car Park</option>
            <option value="test_search_results.php?project=internals">Internals</option>
        </select></td>
		[COLOR="Red"]<td><input type="button" name="go_button2" id= "go_button2" value="Submit" onclick="MM_jumpMenuGo('jumpMenu','parent',0)" />[/COLOR]		</td>
		</tr>
		</table>';

If you had put your code in the

 tags you would have seen that jumpMenu and parent are in blue (blue double underlined is just an advert - ignore those).  The reason they are blue is because, as Dragon said you started the print function with a single quote i.e. 
[code=php]print '<table><tr><td>I want all of this to print out, don't know why it is not'</td></tr>

The next time the programme sees a single quote it thinks you've finished. So to tell it you haven't you need to escape that single quote by putting a slash in front of it.

print '<table><tr><td>I want all of this to print out, don\'t know why it is not</td></tr>'

Notice how it is all red now. Also don't worry about the slash it won't actually print that.

bakercreative

I've followed your instructions and done this to the line of code in question:

    <td><input type="button" name="go_button2" id= "go_button2" value="Submit" onclick="MM_jumpMenuGo(\'jumpMenu\',\'parent\',0)" />

However this has raised a new problem - The submit button has stopped working:queasy:

Emma

Ahh. How did you know the submit was working before you fixed the print issue?

Haddman

I find it much easier to display html outside of php, ecspecially if it's a chunk of code like you have, that way i don't have to worry about those " or ' messing with each other.

Not sure why your submit button isn't working but are you sure that the function MM_jumpMenugo is working?, or maybe you forgot the <form> tag?

bakercreative

I knew the submit button worked because I built the code outside of the php tags to test it and then moved it to inside the tags.

It's not the end of the world as I've recreated it as a jump menu that doesn't need a submit button!