Error trying to echo html

[essjay_d12]

I have the following error pointing at the first echo line...

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_LNUMBER, expecting ',' or ';'

[code] <?php
if (isset($_SESSION['username'])) {

    echo "<td width="143" height="107" valign="top"><p>You are logged in....</p><p>Welcome";
    echo $_SESSION['username'];
    echo "</p><p><a href="logout.php">logout</a></p></td>";

                        }
if (!isset($_SESSION['username'])) {

    echo "<td width="143" height="107" valign="top"><form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="auth2.php">Username:<input type="text" name="username" />Password:<input type="password" name="password" /><input type="submit" name="Submit2" value="Login" /><a href="register.php">Register</a></form></td>";

                        }
?>[/code]

What is wrong there? is it the quotes conflicting?

[kenrbnsn]

When ever you have double quotes in a string delimited by double quotes you need to escape them or you can surround the string with single quotes.
[code]<?php
    echo "<td width=\"143\" height=\"107\" valign=\"top\"><p>You are logged in....</p><p>Welcome";
    echo $_SESSION['username'];
    echo "</p><p><a href=\"logout.php\">logout</a></p></td>";
?>[/code]
or
[code]<?php
    echo '<td width="143" height="107" valign="top"><p>You are logged in....</p><p>Welcome';
    echo $_SESSION['username'];
    echo '</p><p><a href="logout.php">logout</a></p></td>';
?>[/code]

I prefer the second method since it's more readable be humans.

Ken

[essjay_d12]

I took the quotes out of the html part and it works, but I was wondering if this would have an effect later on somewhere?

[obsidian]

[!--quoteo(post=354913:date=Mar 14 2006, 10:31 AM:name=Essjay_d12)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Essjay_d12 @ Mar 14 2006, 10:31 AM) [snapback]354913[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
I took the quotes out of the html part and it works, but I was wondering if this would have an effect later on somewhere?
[/quote]

you really don't want to remove the quotes, as then your markup won't validate, but if you use the suggestion above and simply escape the quotes with backslashes, you should be fine.