Show a php variable in html?

Anon

Hi,

I tried using both echo & print tags, but I can\'t get my variable to show up in the HTML code, it shows up on the page, but I want the value of the variable to show up in the html code too.

Any help would be appreicated.

Regards,

Anon

What do you mean?

PHP outputs HTML code, which is interpreted by your browser.
IF it shows up in your browser, it must be in the html code.

Anon

What I meant was that when I use $title, and when I go to the page, the title tag is shown in the title of the page, but when I view source via my browser, neither the <? function page_name () { print ( "<title>$title;</title>\n"); } ?> nor is the <title>xyz</title> shown in the source code.

Anon

hmm... did you call the function by any chance? you should copy and paste ur code for both php and html part

Anon

Are you sure you actually call this function in the page you are looking at?

Anon

Hi Riffola,

If I think I got ur problem right then you r trying to see the source of that php page in ur web browser by the 'view source' option. In that case anything that is written with the <? ?> tags would not be shown by the web browser as php is a server side language and it parses the code before it sends out the results in HTML format to u. Hope this helps. In case I have got ur problem wrong then feel free to write.

Regards,
Mandy.

Anon

Riffola,

Your function is the problem, $title is not allowed inside the function without passinfg the variable to the function or globalizing it

<?
function page_name ($title) {
print ( "<title>$title;</title>\n");
}

//Sample usage
page_name("xyz");

OR
<?
function page_name () {
global $title;
print ( "<title>$title;</title>\n");
}

//Sample usage
page_name("xyz");

Anon

Hi,

First up thank you all for your replies.

I'll try out your suggestions in a few minutes.

Yes I was indeed trying to get the output of the variable to show up in the source code, so that my atomz search engine can list the page properly.

Thanks again for your replies.

riffola

Anon

See what I wanted to do was have the title of the page change according to the shown.

Now the way it's supposed to work is as follows:
<?
function page_name (

$title= "default title",
$description= "default description",
) {
?>
<title><? echo $title; ?></title>
<meta name="description" content="<? echo $description ; ?>">
<? } ?>
Which was typed on the head.inc file

<?
page_name ("page title","page description)");
?>
which was written on the nav.inc file

The script worked but it removed the html tags that were in between the function and the <? } ?> lines from the source.

I've tried everything including using an array called $meta = array("title", "desc");

But it just doesn't seem to work.