Display an Gif Image

[Anon]

Hi, Hi have the code below as the main content of my web page, but for some reason The image line gives off an image, There must be a special code or something in PHP to place an image, can anyone please help me out, thanks

<? //page.php
$page_content="
<center>
<h1>The main content of the page.</h1>
<br>
<br>
<img src="http://www.nokia-gizmos.co.uk/addesign1.gif" width="468" height="60">

</center>";

include("template.php");

print($header);
print($page_content);
print($footer);
?>

[nashirak]

Well here is what php is seeing:

$page_content=" <center>
<h1>The main content of the page.</h1>
<br>
<br>
<img src="

then something weird called:

http://www.nokia-gizmos.co.uk/addesign1.gif" width="

and

468" height="60"</center>";

first of all let me say I am very suprised you are not getting a parse error. PHP sees anything between " " as a string. Well in your image tags you have a lot of those, it doesnt really know what to do with em. We need to let PHP not that... hey... we want the symbol " and are not trying to make a new string here. How is that done? With the \" character. By placing a \ in front of the " we are telling PHP to escape trying to make what is inbetween the "" a string, and turn it into a literal. So you should read:

$page_content="
<center>
<h1>The main content of the page.</h1>
<br>
<br>
<img src=\"http://www.nokia-gizmos.co.uk/addesign1.gif\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\">

                    </center>"; 

Hope that helps!