help with 1 line of code.

[justAnoob]

<?php
echo '".substr($row['description'],0,50),"<span class="style666"><a href="http://xxxxxxxx.com/viewitem.php"> ...View</a></span>';
?>

 

Can't figure out the problem. Keep getting error saying there should be a "," or ";"

[justAnoob]

<?php
echo "".substr($row['description'],0,50),"<a href='http://xxxxxxxx.com/viewitem.php'> ...View</a>";
?>

This works without the span class, having problems inserting the class though.

[justAnoob]

<?php
echo "".substr($row['description'],0,50),"<span class='style666'><a href='http://xxxxxxxxx.com/viewitem.php'> ...View</a></span>";
?>

Got this to work with no errors, but the style is not applied.

 

.style666 {

color: #0099FF;

text-decoration: none;

}

[Helmet]

There's something weird going on with your two quotes (single or double) at the beginning of the string. This should work:

 

echo substr($row['description'],0,50).'<span class="style666"><a href="http://xxxxxxxxx.com/viewitem.php"> ...View</a></span>';

[mikesta707]

I assume you want the double quotes in there? Well they are messing the code up. When you want to output double quotes, you need to use the double quote escape character, which is \". Kinda like the newline character but with quotes instead of n.

<?php
echo "\".substr($row['description'],0,50),\"<a href='http://xxxxxxxx.com/viewitem.php'> ...View</a>";
?>

 

that should fix it