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jasonkim
jasonkim

Reputation: 706

Failed to escape double quotes in echo statements

So I wanna display a checkbox associated with the ID of sponsors:

echo "<tr>";//line 1
echo '<td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">';//line 2
echo '<input name="checkbox[]" type="checkbox" id="checkbox[]" value="{$row['sponsors_id']}" />';//line 3
echo '</td>';//line 4

Then I got the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in line 3

I tried to escape via \"stuff\" and {},they both did not work though.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1021

Answers (4)

gen_Eric
gen_Eric

Reputation: 227180

echo '<input name="checkbox[]" type="checkbox" id="checkbox[]" value="{$row['sponsors_id']}" />';

Single quotes do not parse variables in it. Try it in double quotes instead:

echo "<input name='checkbox[]' type='checkbox' id='checkbox[]' value='{$row['sponsors_id']}' />";

Upvotes: 0

Steve Lewis
Steve Lewis

Reputation: 1302

try this for line 3:

echo '<input name="checkbox[]" type="checkbox" id="checkbox[]" value="'.$row['sponsors_id'].'" />';

a single-quoted string isn't parsed for replacement variables, even when delimiting them with { and }.

Upvotes: 3

Joseph Silber
Joseph Silber

Reputation: 219910

You are missing the concatenation dots:

echo '<input name="checkbox[]" type="checkbox" id="checkbox[]" value="' . $row['sponsors_id'] . '" />';

Upvotes: 1

Aurelio De Rosa
Aurelio De Rosa

Reputation: 22142

Since you're using the single quote on the line 3, the following piece of code is breaking your syntax:

{$row[**'**sponsors_id**'**]}

Please, note the single quote between the **.

You should change line 3 in:

echo '<input name="checkbox[]" type="checkbox" id="checkbox[]" value="' . $row['sponsors_id'] . '" />';//line 3

Upvotes: 0

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