unexpected t_string

[Xtremer360]

I'm getting an unexpected t_string and I'm not sure where on this line I'm missing it.

 

<?php
echo "<img src=\".base_url()."assets/images/avatar.jpg\".$data->avatar_file."" alt=\"\" />";
?>

[JasonLewis]

Are you using a syntax highlighter? You can see your problem above. My general rule of thumb is to use single quotes whenever possible.

 

echo '<img src="' . base_url() . 'assets/images/avatar.jpg" alt="" />';

 

I removed the $data->avatar_file, not really sure what you want done with that?

Basically, you were escaping your quotes but that buggered up your concatenation. You needed an extra quote, here is an example of how you'd do it how you were trying to:

 

echo "<img src=\"" .base_url() . "assets/images/avatar.jpg\" alt=\"\" />";

 

I still prefer the single quotes method though, that way you don't need to escape your double quotes.

[Xtremer360]

Well I didn't notice I had the avatar.jpg part in there but its going to have the users avatar in there so I tried this and I'm still getting the syntax error:

 

<?php
echo "<img src=\"" .base_url() . "assets/images/".$data->avatar_file."\" alt=\"\" />";
?>

[Maq]

Or something slightly different:

echo "avatar_file}' alt='' />";

 

EDIT:  Your new code:

echo "avatar_file}' alt='' />";

[Xtremer360]

I'm an idiot the line before didn't have the ending ";