Parsing HTML links

[jimleon]

I have a working link that displays two images bup and bdn

<a href="xxxxxxxxx" onMouseOver="catbtn.src='/images/nos/adn.gif'; return true" onMouseOut="catbtn.src='/images/nos/aup.gif'; return true"><img src="/images/nos/aup.gif" width="20" height="20" alt="A" border="0" Name="catbtn"></a>

the code works fine on an html page but in trying to parse it from a php page

echo'
<a href="xxxxxxxxx" onMouseOver="catbtn.src='/images/nos/adn.gif'; return true" onMouseOut="catbtn.src='/images/nos/aup.gif'; return true"><img src="/images/nos/aup.gif" width="20" height="20" alt="A" border="0" Name="catbtn"></a>
'

it throws up the error
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'

I'm sure this has to do with single or double quotes placement.

Any ideas ladies and gentlemen?

Tahnk you

[Atli]

You need to escape any single-quote-marks in a string that is enclose in single-quote-marks. Otherwise PHP will simple close the string and the rest of the string will be parsed as PHP code.

Like, for example:

$string = 'Somebody's name'; # This will cause an error
$string = 'Somebody\'s name'; # This won't
 

On a side-note...
You could also do:

echo <<<END
<a href="xxxxxxxxx" onMouseOver="catbtn.src='/images/nos/adn.gif'; return true" onMouseOut="catbtn.src='/images/nos/aup.gif'; return true"><img src="/images/nos/aup.gif" width="20" height="20" alt="A" border="0" Name="catbtn"></a>
END;
 

[rizwan6feb]

This is the correct syntax. You must escape the character ' with a \

echo'
<a href="xxxxxxxxx" onMouseOver="catbtn.src=\'/images/nos/adn.gif\'; return true" onMouseOut="catbtn.src=\'/images/nos/aup.gif\'; return true"><img src="/images/nos/aup.gif" width="20" height="20" alt="A" border="0" Name="catbtn"></a>
'