PHP echo displaying outside set html

Question

I know this is something really simple but it is not working for me....

I am using the following to display a variable within html.

<?php if (!empty($data['title_text'])) {
    echo '<h1 class="site-title animated fadeInDown">' .$data['title_text']. '</h1>'; 
}

It is displaying but the varibale is not within the html element. It is displaying like so

TEST DATA
<h1 class="site-title animated fadeInDown"></h1>

Please provide the output of var_dump($data)

Christian Bergau
– Christian Bergau

2014-01-09 16:31:59 +00:00
Commented Jan 9, 2014 at 16:31 — Christian Bergau
– Christian Bergau, Commented Jan 9, 2014 at 16:31
What encode do you use?

RDK
– RDK

2014-01-09 16:38:18 +00:00
Commented Jan 9, 2014 at 16:38 — RDK
– RDK, Commented Jan 9, 2014 at 16:38

jeroen · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-09 16:48:23Z

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Your variable might contain characters that invalidate / mess with the html. You should always make sure that cannot happen:

echo '<h1 class="site-title animated fadeInDown">' . htmlspecialchars($data['title_text'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') . '</h1>';

(assuming you are using utf-8)

edited Jan 9, 2014 at 16:48

answered Jan 9, 2014 at 16:33

jeroen

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Christian Bergau Over a year ago

If you're using UTF-8 then htmlentities($data['title_text'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') might be a better use, right?

jeroen Over a year ago

@CBergau When not inside an html tag / property value I don't see how single quotes could do any harm and utf-8 is the default from php 5.4 on. Anyway, it certainly won't hurt :-) Edited!

Christian Bergau Over a year ago

I wasn't mentioning htmlentites because of the quotes. Just wanted to point on the encoding :)

Christian Bergau Over a year ago

Actually i made i mistake here. The default value is already UTF-8 see de2.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php :-)

jeroen Over a year ago

@CBergau No, see my previous comment, only since php 5.4, check the manual on the encoding parameter.

RDK · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-09 16:41:20Z

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Try this add this part of code on your page:

define('CHARSET', 'ISO-8859-1');
define('REPLACE_FLAGS', ENT_COMPAT | ENT_XHTML);

answered Jan 9, 2014 at 16:41

RDK

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