forcing double quotes

richard

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May 25, 2012, 1:30:55 AM5/25/12

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echo "<a href='#'>"

how do you make it so that the output will show "#"?
" in place of the ' does not work.

Olaf S.

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May 25, 2012, 2:26:58 AM5/25/12

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echo '<a href="#">#</a>';

Shake

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May 25, 2012, 3:54:08 AM5/25/12

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echo '<a href="#">';

Or

echo "<a href=\"#\">";

Greetings

The Natural Philosopher

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May 25, 2012, 4:46:42 AM5/25/12

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echo "<a href=\"#\">";

or

echo '<a href="#">';

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Scott Johnson

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May 25, 2012, 7:54:45 AM5/25/12

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If you are working with many tags that you have to have in double quotes
and don't want to have many escapes I find this works very well for me.

Heredocs

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc

<?php
// off the cuff
define("SITE_NAME", "SiteName");
$id = 1;
$alt_color = "yellow";
$content = "http://" . SITE_NAME;

$link = <<<EOD // Must be on its own line but not needed to be first.
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellsapcing="0">
<tr class="tr_class">
<td style="border-bottom:1px solid gray; color:{$alt_color};">
<a href="http://{$content}?id={$id}">{$content}</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
EOD; // Must be first and only on its own line.

echo $link;

?>

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn

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May 25, 2012, 9:04:12 AM5/25/12

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PHP is the *P*HP *H*ypertext *P*reprocessor. Use it:

<?php
…
?><a href="#">#</a><?php
…
<?php
…
?>

(Insert line-breaks where convenient, but be aware that they result in
whitespace text nodes which in turn may result in a space character being
displayed. Consult the HTML 4.01 Specification for details.)

This approach (stdin – parse – stdout) wins over a here-doc string in almost
all cases, as by contrast the ending delimiter of a here-doc string must be
at the first column (so is not easy to indent), can only be followed by at
least a semicolon (which means concatenation for more complex expressions),
and requires escaping of some characters that do not have to be escaped with
the approach above.

Incidentally, it is described and recommended by one of the first chapters
of the PHP manual:

<http://php.net/manual/en/tutorial.firstpage.php>

It should also be noted that PHP 5.4 does away with the nonsense that
`<?= … ?>' would not be working with short_open_tag=Off (which required you
to write `<?php echo …; ?>' instead), so there is no good excuse left to
`echo' *everything* (instead of just the dynamic parts) rather ineffiently:

<http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php>

PointedEars
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn

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May 25, 2012, 9:22:50 AM5/25/12

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[Cancel & Supersedes: Sorry, copy-and-paste error resulting in invalid code]

PHP is the *P*HP *H*ypertext *P*reprocessor. Use it:

<?php
…

?><a href="#">#</a><?php

Markus Sonnenberg

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May 25, 2012, 9:57:52 AM5/25/12

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echo "<a href=\"#\">"; does that work?

ct,
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Michael Fesser

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May 25, 2012, 3:19:01 PM5/25/12

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.oO(richard)

>echo "<a href='#'>"
>
>how do you make it so that the output will show "#"?
>" in place of the ' does not work.

What's wrong with the single quotes? HTML doesn't care.

Micha

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Olaf S.

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May 25, 2012, 3:57:28 PM5/25/12

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Am 25.05.2012 15:22, schrieb Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:
> [Cancel& Supersedes: Sorry, copy-and-paste error resulting in invalid code]

>
> Olaf S. wrote:
>
>> Am 25.05.2012 07:30, schrieb richard:
>>> echo "<a href='#'>"
>>>
>>> how do you make it so that the output will show "#"?
>>> " in place of the ' does not work.
>>
>> echo '<a href="#">#</a>';
>
> PHP is the *P*HP *H*ypertext *P*reprocessor. Use it:

YES SIR!

>
> <?php
> …
> ?><a href="#">#</a><?php
> …
> ?>
>

He asked with ECHO. And that is PHP.

Olaf

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

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May 25, 2012, 4:35:43 PM5/25/12

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Olaf S. wrote:

> He asked with ECHO. And that is PHP.

richard doesn't know what he wants, because he has no clue about writing
server-side PHP code...

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Scott Johnson

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May 26, 2012, 10:09:30 AM5/26/12

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On 5/25/2012 1:35 PM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Olaf S. wrote:
>
>> He asked with ECHO. And that is PHP.
>
> richard doesn't know what he wants, because he has no clue about writing
> server-side PHP code...
>

I kind of just realized that myself and think my example might of been
over-kill.