Formating PHP | NUB question

[tarleton]

Hi all real nub questions so sorry.

 

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);

require("C:/xampp/htdocs/game/forums/SSI.php"); 
$array = ssi_recentTopics( 3, null, 'array');
foreach ($array as $post)
{
  echo '<li>';
  echo '<a href="', $post['href'], '">', $post['subject'], '</a>';
  echo '</li>';
}
?>

 

I want to make

<a href="', $post['href'], '">

<strong> and

$post['subject']

<em> however i get errors whenever i add the tags around them.

 

[mikesta707]

echo '<strong><a href="'. $post['href']. '"><em>'. $post['subject']. '</em></a></strong>';

 

you were concatenating incorrectly. You use periods ('.') not commas to concatenate

[cags]

Actually not wishing to confuse the OP, but...

 

echo '<a href="', $post['href'], '">', $post['subject'], '</a>';

 

...is a perfectly valid way of outputing data. Some argue it's actually better than....

 

echo '<a href="' . $post['href'] . '">' . $post['subject'] . '</a>';

 

It is not concatinating the strings together, it is using echo's ability to accept multiple parameters to output the data.

 

As to tarleton, what error are you getting?

[tarleton]

Thanks for ur help guys, Mikes thing didn't work kinda screwed up the display of everything. This is what i've tried

  echo '<strong><a href="', $post['href'], '</strong>">', <em>$post['subject'], '</a></em>';

 

Get this error

Parse error: parse error in C:\xampp\htdocs\game\manager\includes\document.parser.class.inc.php(770) : eval()'d code on line 9

[cags]

Try this...

 

echo '<strong><a href="', $post['href'], '</strong>">', '<em>', $post['subject'], '</a></em>';

 

Your open <em> tag was not in speach marks to signify it as a string, it was also not concatenated with the . or seperated with a comma.

[mikesta707]

Oh my bad, learn something new every day i suppose. I thought only python did that. thats pretty cool

 

  echo '<strong><a href="', $post['href'], '"</strong>>', '<em>'.$post['subject'], '</a></em>';

 

you can do that, but that doesn't really make much sense, and isn't remotely close to valid XHTML

 

it would basically look like

<strong><a href="somevalue"</strong>><em>somevalue</a></em>

 

you cant have other tags inside some tags. you close tags out of order, and it seems that you are trying to bold the first part of the <a> tag. I'm not sure why you are doing that, but even if that was valid, it wouldn't do anything. What exactly are you trying to get the output to look like?

[cags]

Ooops, I didn't even check the validity of the HTML, I just saw the PHP was wrong and fixed it.