HELP!!

[supermancody]

I'm new to PHP and used to program using HTML.  THis is the code I have, which works fine in HTML, yet not in PHP.  Could someone please help.

<?php
echo"<style>"
."#bg {background-image: url(bg.gif); width: 10px; height: 30px;}"
."</style>"
."<div id=\"bg\">"
."</div>";
?>

 

 

THANKS!!!!!!!

 

[only one]

<?php
echo"
<style>
#bg {background-image: url(bg.gif); width: 10px; height: 30px;}
</style>
<div id=\"bg\">
</div>";
?>

[nafetski]

Just to give you a bit more clarification since you're new =)  All echo does is output text which in turn can be parsed as HTML.  If you're going to echo a style statement like that, you can do it one of three ways.

 

1)  The way that was listed above.  It looks a little awkward tho, since you have the open quote before the <style> tag, and the end quote at the end of the </div> tag.  After the end quote of any echo statement, you have to put a semicolon.

 

2)  Echo each line.  This of course isn't reccomended, since it's slow and clunky...but.

 

<?php
echo "<style>";
echo ".bg {background-image: url(bg.gif); width: 10px; height: 30px;}";
echo "</style>";
echo "<div id = "bg">";
echo "</div>";
?>

3)  Or, the way that I like doing it a lot of the time...just break out of php!

 

Say you've got some php you have to use...

<?php
$hello = "Hello!  I am a pointless string";
?>
<td><?php echo $hello; ?></td>

Can get awkward for small things, but if you're going to output a lot of HTML it's your best bet.  Good luck!