need the php to enclose image please -urgent!

Please help. I have tried looking all over for an example of the correct php to enclose an img tag so I can include an image in the sidebar. I managed at some point to get close, the image appeared, but it did so withextra bits of things around it… like < or ” etc. I tried removing those and the image disappeared and I couldn’t find the right combo of code again. 🙁

I searched the web and could not find an example. I don’t know *any* php, just css and html. I found a site called “lorelle on wordpress” or something like that and it talked about the wordpress text widget AND adding an image…. but something is different in ATW because her line of code doesn’t work. That was my start point. this is what she showed:

<img src=&quot;[Image Link URL]&quot; alt=&quot;[description - what is this]&quot; />

But in ATW it doesn’t result in an image… it results in this:

<img src="imagesourceURL" "description">

that shows up as code in the ATW and not the actual image.

I’m about to cry. I can’t learn all of php just to make this one thing work.

Please show me exactly how it has to be written so I can copy it. It should be easy for anyone with php experience.

thanks in advance

https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-text-widget/