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1. bnvt
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi!
   I'm rather new to PHP and WP, and I have recently stumbled upon this odd behaviour. It might be some standard in PHP, but I haven't been able to find any documentation about it.

   Here it goes. I have this rather simple code:
   echo "<img src='" . bloginfo('template_directory') . "/css/imagenes/p_2.jpg' blabla..."

   which, oddly enough, outputs this to html:
   http://localhost:8888/wp-content/themes/Starkers<img src='/css/imagenes/puntuaciones/p_2.jpg' blabla...

   As you can see, the code generated by bloginfo() jumps to the beginning of the html statement, messing the whole thing up.
   I know I could recode the whole thing as
   <img src="<?php echo bloginfo(); ?>" ectcetera>
   but I'd rather not do it, because it's located in a php chunck of code which would get quite messy if I did.

   Am I doing anything wrong?
   Thanks a lot.

2. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Fix
   

   echo "<img src='" . get_bloginfo('template_directory') . "/css/imagenes/p_2.jpg' blabla..."

   You need a return value inside an echo statement, bloginfo echoes it's value (so not suited), but get_bloginfo gives you a return value, which will work appropriately inside the echo statement.

3. bnvt
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Right, that sounds pretty reasonable, Mark. Easy enough :)
   Thanks!

4. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You're welcome... :)

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