Styling An Echo ( Php )

Spencer · January 25, 2013

Hey there!

I want to style an "echo" in PHP. ( You know. Make it blue, position it, ect. ) All the examples and places I have learned about this work, but this echo has a variable in it:

echo '<div id="welcome_username">"Welcome, " . $myusername . "!"</div>';

The variable is $myusername ( Making it say "Welcome, Username!" =P )

Is there a different way to style an echo, when it has a variable?

Thanks for your time. ~ Spencer

( If you must, here is the whole code... I do't think it is needed though. )

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

<?php
session_start();
if(!session_is_registered(myusername)){
header("location:main_login.php");
}

$myusername = $_SESSION['myusername'];


?>



<html>
<head>

<title>Mbox:homepage</title>

<script>
window.setInterval(function(){
window.scrollTo(40, 220);
}, 50);
</script>
<style>

/*3DS SCREEN START*/

div#topscreen
{
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
height: 218px;
width: 320px;
background-color:#E0FFFF;
z-index:2;
}

div#bottomscreen
{
position: absolute;
top: 218px;
left: 0px;
height: 212px;
width: 320px;
background-color:#E0FFFF;

}

/*3DS SCREEN STOP*/


/* WELCOME USERNAME STYLE START */

div#welcome_username
{

color:#0000EE;
font-weight: bold;
position:absolute;
top:5px;
left:50px;

}

/* WELCOME USERNAME STYLE STOP */

</style>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=320">
</head>
<body>


<!-- TOP SCREEN -->
<div id="topscreen">

<?php

echo '<div id="welcome_username">Welcome, . $myusername . !</div>';



?>

<p style="color:red; text-decoration:underline;">Homepage under construction.</p>
</div id="topscreen">

<!-- BOTTOM SCREEN -->
<div id="bottomscreen">

</div id="bottomscreen>"

</body>
</html>

Shinryuu · January 25, 2013

2:49:40 PM - Shinryuu_: Mega_: '' don't process variables

2:49:47 PM - Shinryuu_: only ""

2:53:00 PM - Shinryuu_: one way to do it is to break out of the parser first, ?><div id="welcome_user"><?php echo "Welcome, $username"; ?></div> <?php

2:53:38 PM - Shinryuu_: Mega_: otherwise you have to hack the crap out of it with the concat operator .

For future reference.

ethanh · January 31, 2013

You are using your quotes incorrectly. When referencing a variable you can either do it straight from the string using double quotes or put a string and variable together using a '.'

Here is an example for how to add variables to a string:

$name = 'Bob';

//Following outputs: My name is Bob
echo "My name is $name";

//Following outputs: My name is $name
echo 'My name is $name';

//Following outputs: My name is Bob
echo 'My name is '.$name;

For what you are doing you need to change some quotes.

Either one of these should work for you.

$myusername = 'Bob';


//Outputs: "Welcome, Bob!"
echo '<div id="welcome_username">"Welcome, ' . $myusername . '!"</div>';

//Outputs: Welcome, Bob!
echo '<div id="welcome_username">Welcome, ' . $myusername . '!</div>';

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