Echo Command With Single Quotes Conflict ?

  • Resolved Glennf

    (@glennf)


    8 years ago

    <?php
    if( aicp_can_see_ads() ) {
    // Shows the ad
    echo ”;
    }
    ?>

    I am putting code like the following (see below) inside the echo ”; but my code contains single quotes which conflict with the echo statement because the first single quote in my code complete the echo command.

    <script>
    document.write(‘<‘ + ‘h3 style=”text-align: center;”><‘ + ‘span style=”color: #a34040;”>’ + ‘More Gardening Ideas & Resources</span><‘ + ‘/h3>’);
    </script>

    What can I do to get around this?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Author iSaumya

    (@isaumya)

    8 years ago

    You can use double quote in echo too. No issues there. If it is conflicting, use double quote. Example echo "something";

    • This reply was modified 8 years ago by iSaumya.
    Thread Starter Glennf

    (@glennf)

    8 years ago

    What about the <div class=”aicp”> ? It has double quotes in it.

    <?php
    if( aicp_can_see_ads() ) {
    // Shows the ad
    echo “<div class=”aicp”>”;
    }
    ?>

    Can I do this?

    <?php
    if( aicp_can_see_ads() ) {
    // Shows the ad
    echo “<div class=’aicp’>”;
    }
    ?>

    Plugin Author iSaumya

    (@isaumya)

    8 years ago

    Hi,
    You can’t do this:

    <?php
if( aicp_can_see_ads() ) {
// Shows the ad
echo “<div class=’aicp’>”;
}
?>

    So, what you need to do is escape the similar quotes inside the start and end. Let’s say you want to say I can't dance. Not as can’t has a single quote in it if you are also using single quote for echo, it is gonna give isues. So, instead of using double quotes we can also escape the single quote in can’t using backslash \, so it would become echo 'I can\'t dance'; and it’s gonna work fine.

    Similarly, you can do this:

    <?php
if( aicp_can_see_ads() ) {
// Shows the ad
echo "<div class=\"aicp\">";
}
?>

    For more explanation you can watch this 1 min video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7qvGQtnEpg

    Thread Starter Glennf

    (@glennf)

    8 years ago

    Thanks SO much. The escape sequence \’ worked.

    Plugin Author iSaumya

    (@isaumya)

    8 years ago

    Glad to know that it helped.

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