PHP and HTML combined

**vgking101** · 11-09-2004, 12:14 AM

I am still learning PHP and i was writing some Data Base code. I am copying from a book i am learning from and it uses HTML tags inside PHP. It dosent work when i run it though. is there something im doing wrong?

**foobar** · 11-09-2004, 12:22 AM

What exactly doesn't work? It would help a lot if you gave us the relevant error messages, posted a snippet of code and a link to to the site (if it's online that is).

**Christopher** · 11-09-2004, 12:24 AM

If you are copying code directly from a book and trying to connect to a database, then it likely won't work.

The information in the book (username, password and database name) will not be the same as your own. You should ask your host for these details.

**vgking101** · 11-09-2004, 12:26 AM

heheh sorry about that. ERROR: Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<', expecting '}' the rest just says the path and what line its on. Im just wondering if you can use HTML in the PHP section of code.

**lothop** · 11-09-2004, 01:00 AM

Try this..

Replace the '<' with a '}'

If not, please post the section of code and the link it corresponds with.

**Christopher** · 11-09-2004, 01:40 AM

To output HTML, you must break out of PHP, or echo it out.

PHP Code:


			
<?php



echo "<b>in php</b>";



?>



<b>Out of php</b>

**compmodder26** · 11-09-2004, 12:17 PM

What you may have seen is called a here document. It has the syntax of

PHP Code:


			
echo <<<HEREDOCUMENT

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body>

.......

</body>

</html>

HEREDOCUMENT;

That is used to make the output appear exactly as you make it in the here document as opposed to having to add a new line character to each line like this:

PHP Code:


			
echo "<html>\n

<head>\n

</head>\n

<body>\n

...\n

</body>\n

</html>\n

It has other uses, but I won't get into all of them.

**vgking101** · 11-09-2004, 10:27 PM

echoing the stuff out worked