Quotes not appearing after variables

[Josh]

I have this block of code....

while($i <= $count)
{
$final = mysql_fetch_row($result);
$blocknamelist .= "<a style = \"cursor: pointer\" onmouseout =
\"clear_desc()\" ";
$blocknamelist .= "onclick = delete_block(\"$final[1]\",\"$final[2]\")
onmouseover = display_desc(\"$final[2]\") >";
$blocknamelist .= "<font color = \"red\">X</font></a>&nbsp;<br />\n";
$i++;
}

This is the output:

<a style =" cursor: pointer" onmouseout =" clear_desc()" onclick =
delete_block("QL","Quick Links) onmouseover = display_desc("Quick
Links) ><font color =" red">X</font></a>&nbsp;<br />
<a style =" cursor: pointer" onmouseout =" clear_desc()" onclick =
delete_block("AD","Admin Menu) onmouseover = display_desc("Admin Menu)

<font color =" red">X</font></a>&nbsp;<br />

As you can see, around Quick Links the quote sequence never shows up
as well as around Admin Menu. I can't figure this out. I have tried
these sequences:

'text "' . $variable . '" more text';
"text \"". $variable . "\" more text";
<<<EOD Text "$variable" more text EOD;

Among as many other patterns I could think of.

What I don't understand is. If I do this:

$test = '"' . $variable . '"';
it works exactly how I want it to act, as well as the same with every
above pattern I have tried. it is only when I try and get it to print
in the above manner within the javascript function calls that I get a
problem. Do the parenthesis in the string effect it some how? I've
never seen it do this before, so I am bamboozled. Any and all help is
appreciated.

[Josh]

Someone must have some ideas, come on now, please?

[Josh]

Well I finally got it today. I tried and still try the single quotes
and it fails saying "Unterminated String Literal". Anyways what I
ended up having to do is just add a single quote around the entire
javascript function call. I am really baffled as to why that code
worked for you though :-\. Anyways here is my revised code.

$blocknamelist .= "<a style = 'cursor: pointer;' onmouseout =
'clear_desc()' ";
$blocknamelist .= "onclick =
'delete_block(\"$final[1]\",\"$final[2]\")' onmouseover =
'display_desc(\"Delete $final[2] Block\")' >";
$blocknamelist .= "<font color = 'red'>X</font></a>&nbsp;\n";

I have no idea why adding those single quotes made any effect on it
displaying the double quotes, it still makes no sense to me and I
would be really intrigued to see an explanation of this. Especially
when a variable can hold the information fine, but as soon as I try to
concantenate<sp?> it messes everything all up. Very strange behavior
indeed. But thank you for your responses.

Josh

[Josh]

Well I finally got it today. I tried and still try the single quotes
and it fails saying "Unterminated String Literal". Anyways what I
ended up having to do is just add a single quote around the entire
javascript function call. I am really baffled as to why that code
worked for you though :-\. Anyways here is my revised code.

$blocknamelist .= "<a style = 'cursor: pointer;' onmouseout =
'clear_desc()' ";
$blocknamelist .= "onclick =
'delete_block(\"$final[1]\",\"$final[2]\")' onmouseover =
'display_desc(\"Delete $final[2] Block\")' >";
$blocknamelist .= "<font color = 'red'>X</font></a>&nbsp;\n";

I have no idea why adding those single quotes made any effect on it
displaying the double quotes, it still makes no sense to me and I
would be really intrigued to see an explanation of this. Especially
when a variable can hold the information fine, but as soon as I try to
concantenate<sp?> it messes everything all up. Very strange behavior
indeed. But thank you for your responses.

Josh

[Michael Fesser]

.oO(Josh)

Well I finally got it today. I tried and still try the single quotes
and it fails saying "Unterminated String Literal".
What PHP version? Can you strip it down to a short line of code (as
short as possible) that still shows the error?
I have no idea why adding those single quotes made any effect on it
displaying the double quotes,
Quotes are necessary because onXXX are attributes in HTML, their values
should be single- or double-quoted. But I have no idea how or why this
affects PHP.
it still makes no sense to me and I
would be really intrigued to see an explanation of this. Especially
when a variable can hold the information fine, but as soon as I try to
concantenate<sp?> it messes everything all up.
concatenate

Your (old) code works on my system (PHP 5.0.0 and 4.3.3). And so does
the following:

$blocknamelist = "<a style = 'cursor: pointer;'
onmouseout = 'clear_desc()'
onclick = 'delete_block(\"$final[1]\",\"$final[2]\")'
onmouseover = 'display_desc(\"Delete $final[2] Block\")'<font color = 'red'>X</font></a>&nbsp;\n";

Micha