Could you help a neophite? Absolute positioning of the variables of an array

[sptrsn]

Could someone help an absolute beginner? I've been searching for hours and can't figure it out.

 

I have an array and I would like to position each of the variables in various positions around a page.

I have a div tag with an absolute position statement, how would I wrap it around the one variable below..."$name" ?

I actually have several variables in the array. I've reduced it to one for simplicity.

 

Thanks so much for any help.

 

 

<?php
$query = "select * from todolist where id='$id'";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
extract($row);


echo "$name";       //this is the element that I want to position


?>

 

I had envisioned that it would be something like this....

'<div id="position1">' echo "$name" '</div>'; 

 

But yea, that doesn't work.

 

[AbraCadaver]

Read about the diff between " and ' also the . concatenates strings together: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

 

echo '<div id="position1">' . $name . '</div>'; 

 

Or this:

 

echo "<div id=\"position1\">$name</div>"; 

[sptrsn]

AbraCadaver you are awesome! That worked great. Thank you so much.

 

I actually have been reading several articles about the ' and ".

 

Just not the brightest crayon in the box.

Thanks again.

[anups]

use this way

 

echo '<div id="position1">'.$name.'</div>';

[sptrsn]

Right on.

Thanks again all.

It worked great!