Display PHP variable in <p>

Question

I am trying to display a PHP variable within a <p> tag but I either keep getting errors or the name of the variable is shown but not it's content.

Here is the code:

echo '<div class="item" style="background-color:'.$row[colour].';width:'.$row[width].'px;"><a href="'.$row[link_url].'" title="'.$row[name].'"><p>$row[name]</p></a></div>';

Where I have written:

<p>$row[name]</p>

will not show up in the browser correctly and instead will just show the name of the variable. If I surround the variable with '' I get an error regaurding syntax.

I have also tried to echo the variable:

<p><?php echo $row[name] ?></p>

But on the website nothing is displayed at all and when I look in the FireFox inspector I see this: The code has automatically been commented out?

Kirby · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-01 17:55:35Z

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You need to add '. $row[name] . '

like this

echo '<div class="item" style="background-color:'.$row[colour].';width:'.$row[width].'px;"><a href="'.$row[link_url].'" title="'.$row[name].'"><p>' . $row[name]. '</p></a></div>';

answered Sep 1, 2015 at 17:55

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Splycd Over a year ago

Perfect! Just what I was looking for

Lal · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-01 17:56:03Z

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You have to concatenate the php variable.

Replace

echo '<div class="item" style="background-color:'.$row[colour].
     ';width:'.$row[width].'px;"><a href="'.$row[link_url].
     '" title="'.$row[name].'"><p>$row[name]</p></a></div>';

with

echo '<div class="item" style="background-color:'.$row[colour].
     ';width:'.$row[width].'px;"><a href="'.$row[link_url].
     '" title="'.$row[name].'"><p>'.$row[name].'</p></a></div>';

Notice '"><p>'.$row[name].'</p></a></div>';

answered Sep 1, 2015 at 17:56

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Splycd Over a year ago

Thanks! This helped alot

FuzzyTree · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-01 18:07:02Z

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When interpolating array values in strings you need to use curly brackets and double quotes.

echo ...."\"><p>{$row['name']}</p></a></div>";

When you use single quotes, php does not interpolate variable names inside the string. Instead, it just prints the names, which is what you're seeing in the source code.

And your array keys should be strings, so ['name'] instead of [name]

edited Sep 1, 2015 at 18:07

answered Sep 1, 2015 at 17:55

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Joshua Nightingale · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-01 18:06:51Z

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Not sure if this is 100% as I am half asleep but at least it will help you with your array a bit.

echo "<div class=\"item\" style=\"background-color:".$row['colour'].";width:".$row['width']."px;\"><a href=".$row['link_url']." title=".$row['name']."><p>".$row['name']."</p></a></div>";

answered Sep 1, 2015 at 18:06

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