[help] php

[Jo$h]

I have a PHP question. (as I always do)

Will the echo statement be interfered with in the following example?

echo "<form action="" method="post">";

Thanks in advance, Josh

 

[Markshall]

You can do either of these:

echo "<form action=\"\" method=\"post\">";

echo '<form action="" method="post">';

echo "<form action='' method='post'>";

 

[Jo$h]

Alright so I have another issue, What about putting more then one HTML tags inside the same echo statement?

 

[Markshall]

Alright so I have another issue, What about putting more then one HTML tags inside the same echo statement?

Show me an example of what you want

 

[Jo$h]

 echo '<option value="devbest">DevBest</option>';

 

[Markshall]

 echo '<option value="devbest">DevBest</option>';

Yeah, that will work.

 

[Mac]

I prefer you doing " ' ' " because it's standard , you can do it ' " " ' too , but on some versions it doesn't work!

 

[Markshall]

I think W3C prefer it if you use:

<input type="text" />

..etc and PHP prefers you to use

echo "";

So I would do:

echo "<input type=\"text\">";

But I'm lazy, so I really do:

echo '<input type="text">';

 

[Mac]

actually , W3C doesn't give much right details (i think so , some details are against what php.net says) , W3C is more professionalized at HTML and CSS . So i prefer

echo "<form action='lol.php'>";

(what php.net says)

 

[Jo$h]

Thanks Problem Solved in that sense, however, Now I'm having math problems.(no pun intended)

$x=20
$y=50
echo "$x*$y";

Appears as:
20*50 on the page.

 

[Mac]

$x = 20;
$y = 50;
echo $x * $y; # Don't use quotes for calculating! 
?>