PHP only displaying first word of string in table

Question

I'm dynamically creating a table from a MySQL query. For some reason, the 'notes' field below is only returning the first word of the string, although when I test it with echo($notes) it shows up just fine. $status is similarly set, and also is fine. What am I missing? I assume it has something to do with prepopulating the text field with the value. I'm using codeigniter.

$notes = empty($row["notes"]) ? "None" : $row["notes"];
    echo($notes);
    echo('
    <tr class="even">
        <td class="status-icons">'.$error_level.'</td>
        <td>'.$row["name"].'</td>
        <td>'.$status.'</td>
        <td class="notes-col">
          <input type="text" name="submit_notes" value='.$notes.' class="notes-copy">
        </td>
    </tr>'

Probably not related, but echo is not a function, the correct way is 'echo $notes;' — Kevin
– Kevin, Commented Jul 26, 2013 at 22:08
Good to know, but that's just there for debugging. Is there a difference, or is that just a standard? — thumbtackthief
– thumbtackthief, Commented Jul 26, 2013 at 22:08
according to the manual it can be used as a function but will not always work like it. — Kevin
– Kevin, Commented Jul 26, 2013 at 22:11
@thumbtackthief, just a standard used to differentiate functions from language constructs. echo is not a function in php — Mark Basmayor
– Mark Basmayor, Commented Jul 26, 2013 at 22:11
possible duplicate of Only first word In a multi word variable is being displayed — thumbtackthief
– thumbtackthief, Commented Jul 30, 2013 at 15:58

thumbtackthief · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-29 14:32:21Z

14

replace this

   value='.$notes.'

with

    value="'.$notes.'"

the double quotes are for the Value because it originally has two quotes like: value=""

edited Jul 29, 2013 at 14:32

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answered Jul 26, 2013 at 22:12

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4 Comments

Kevin Over a year ago

always the little things :) like a space before the opening php tag -_-

echo_Me Over a year ago

@MarkBasmayor sorry i didnt mean to beat you to it :), if i knew you will post it i should let you :) .

Orangepill Over a year ago

should probably urlencode the value as well or a stray ' is going to blow it up.

thumbtackthief Over a year ago

@Orangepill I'm using codeigniter and django--isn't that automatic? I tested some values with quotes and didn't seem to have a problem.

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