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Dyon
Dyon

Reputation: 121

Echoing css-link makes code work. Why?

i just stumbled across the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me in coding. I defined a variable $csslink = '../styles/global.css'; in php and call it in HTML via 

<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='<?php echo $csslink; ?>' />

but it doesn't work. The page is displayed without the styles specified in global.css.

Now when I put

echo $csslink;

after the definition of $csslink and before the html, it works. What the hell?

edit

It's only the case in Firefox (Chrome/IE work without the echo) also it doesn't matter what I echo, if it's echo "xxx"; it still works.

edit2

I changed it to the long <?php tag, doesn't make a difference though.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 109

Answers (3)

Daniel Apt
Daniel Apt

Reputation: 2638

I would use:

<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='<?php echo $csslink; ?>' />

Upvotes: 0

user1823693
user1823693

Reputation:

they are ASP tags.

Try with PHP short open tags:

<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='<?=$csslink?>' />

If this is also not working try with PHP normal tags:

<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='<?php echo $csslink; ?>' />

Upvotes: 0

Liglo App
Liglo App

Reputation: 3819

Try <?=$csslink?>. I guess <% %> is ASP syntax, not PHP.

If it still doesn't work, ensure, that ALLOW_SHORT_TAGS in php.ini is on.

Upvotes: 1

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