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Posted by: tudsy Aug 12 2016, 01:51 AM

Hi

I have defined $person above this statement:

<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Click to view '.<?php echo $person ?>.'.'s '>

I was wondering what is wrong with this statement. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Posted by: Christian J Aug 12 2016, 07:25 AM

Is it already part of an echo? If so you can't nest another echo inside it. The period signs look wrong either way.

Posted by: CharlesEF Aug 12 2016, 01:12 PM

Looks to me like you have a syntax error. Change this line:

CODE

To this:

CODE

Posted by: Christian J Aug 12 2016, 01:52 PM

The single quote and period sign before the PHP code still looks wrong to me (assuming $person is part of the INPUT value).

With PHP embedded in normal HTML I'd do it like this:

CODE

...or if all the HTML code is printed by PHP, like this:

CODE

echo '<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Click to view '.$person.'\'s">';

Posted by: CharlesEF Aug 12 2016, 02:16 PM

Yes, that 1 period slipped past me during my edit. I have fixed it now. I just followed the OP's format but your format would work also.

Posted by: Christian J Aug 12 2016, 02:53 PM

There's an extra single quote as well, which will close the VALUE attribute value.

Posted by: CharlesEF Aug 12 2016, 07:21 PM

Boy, my eye is really going bad. Anyway, I would suggest the OP follow your example:

CODE

I always use double quotes with HTML attributes. I think the OP should also.