help with echoing something thanks

[Novice@PHP]

I don't think I'm grasping this concept one little bit. can take me months too unfortunately.

 

What I have today is this line of code

echo '<li><?php dp_attachment_image($post->ID, 'thumbnail', 'alt="' . $post->post_title . '" class="footer-thumb" width="40px" height="40px"'); ?><a href="' . get_permalink($id) . '">' . get_the_title($id) . '</a></li>';

 

It doesn't work because it creates a syntax error.

 

I know it's simple too but still can't get my head round this kind of coding.

 

Thanks to everyone who takes their time to reply.

[Genesis730]

I'm no expert but don't you need to escape the quotes so the echo doesn't end before you want it to?

Also you're trying to target your link to a PHP value, but the code isn't in PHP, at least from the code provided, if that's the case you would need the link to be like this

<a href="<?PHP echo get_permalink($id); ?>"> <?PHP echo get_the_title($id) . '</a></li>';?>

 

The whole thing would look something like this, let me know how it goes...

 

<?PHP echo "<li><?php dp_attachment_image($post->ID, \'thumbnail\', \'alt=\'" . $post->post_title . "\' class=\"footer-thumb\" width=\"40px\" height=\"40px\""); ?><a href="<?PHP echo get_permalink($id); ?>"> <?PHP echo get_the_title($id) . '</a></li>'; ?>

[Novice@PHP]

I'm no expert but don't you need to escape the quotes so the echo doesn't end before you want it to?

Also you're trying to target your link to a PHP value, but the code isn't in PHP, at least from the code provided, if that's the case you would need the link to be like this

<a href="<?PHP echo get_permalink($id); ?>"> <?PHP echo get_the_title($id) . '</a></li>';?>

 

The whole thing would look something like this, let me know how it goes...

 

<?PHP echo "<li><?php dp_attachment_image($post->ID, \'thumbnail\', \'alt=\'" . $post->post_title . "\' class=\"footer-thumb\" width=\"40px\" height=\"40px\""); ?><a href="<?PHP echo get_permalink($id); ?>"> <?PHP echo get_the_title($id) . '</a></li>'; ?>

 

Doesn't work but thanks for the advice. Still trying to do it lol.

[wildteen88]

I thinks that is what you want to do.

echo '<li>'. 
            dp_attachment_image($post->ID, 'thumbnail', 'alt="' . $post->post_title . '" class="footer-thumb" width="40px" height="40px"').
            '<a href="' . get_permalink($id) . '">' . get_the_title($id) . '</a>'.
      '</li>';

[Novice@PHP]

I thinks that is what you want to do.

echo '<li>'. 
            dp_attachment_image($post->ID, 'thumbnail', 'alt="' . $post->post_title . '" class="footer-thumb" width="40px" height="40px"').
            '<a href="' . get_permalink($id) . '">' . get_the_title($id) . '</a>'.
      '</li>';

 

Tjis works much better than anything I tried.

 

Though one issue is that it doesn't echo both inside the <li> but rather image outside and url inside. I tweaked it a little and got it  to display them in separate <li>'s but this isn't what i need.

 

Any ideas why they aren't inside the same <li> tags? (by they I mean the .dp_attatchment_image and the permalink fucntion.

 

Thanks.

[DavidAM]

echo '<li>'. 
            dp_attachment_image($post->ID, 'thumbnail', 'alt="' . $post->post_title . '" class="footer-thumb" width="40px" height="40px"').
            '<a href="' . get_permalink($id) . '">' . get_the_title($id) . '</a>'.
      '</li>';

 

if dp_attachment_image() or get_permalink() or get_the_title() are echoing, or printing or otherwise outputting text, it will appear before the output from the echo that is outputting the LI.  The way this code is written, you are expecting these three functions to return a string not output a string.  If these functions do in fact echo the code, you should use something like this:

echo '<li>'; 
dp_attachment_image($post->ID, 'thumbnail', 'alt="' . $post->post_title . '" class="footer-thumb" width="40px" height="40px"');
echo '<a href="'; 
get_permalink($id);
echo '">';
get_the_title($id);
echo'</a></li>';

 

which is kind of ugly; and probably whey some PHP native functions (like print_r) have a paramter called $return which can be set to true to return the string; and defaults to false to output the string.