php table help

[Porkie]

 

 

print ("<table>");
    print ("<tr>");
    print ("<td>");
echo 'smooth'
print ("</td>");
print ("</tr>");
print ("<tr>");
    print ("<td>");
    echo 'lala'
    print ("</td>");
    print ("<td align="left" valign="top">");
    echo '<h2>Description</h2>';
echo stripslashes($video['description']);
    print ("</td>");
    print ("</tr>");
    print ("</table>");

 

my problem is i want description to be shown at the top of the box so i tried using valign however dont understand why i get an error?

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/public_html/Newdirectory/video.php on line 70 , line 70 being the valign line

 

cheers in advance

[Ken2k7]

The double quotes around your HTML attributes are messing up the ones you're using for print.

 

print "<td align='left' valign='top'>";

 

See the difference? One more thing worth noting, print is a language construct and not a PHP function so the parentheses are not needed.

[wildteen88]

You need to escape any double quotes within your string, like so

print ("<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">");

 

If you don't escape your quotes PHP will end your string prematurely and thus you'll get the error you're retrieving.

 

Or start your string with single quotes

print ('<td align="left" valign="top">');

 

Also there's no need to echo each line separately. echo/print can span multiple lines, like so

echo '<table>
  <tr>
    <td>smooth</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>lala</td>
    <td align="left" valign="top">
      <h2>Description</h2>'.
      stripslashes($video['description']).'
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>';