sptrsn Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Could someone help an absolute beginner? I've been searching for hours and can't figure it out. I have an array and I would like to position each of the variables in various positions around a page. I have a div tag with an absolute position statement, how would I wrap it around the one variable below..."$name" ? I actually have several variables in the array. I've reduced it to one for simplicity. Thanks so much for any help. <?php $query = "select * from todolist where id='$id'"; $result = mysql_query($query); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) extract($row); echo "$name"; //this is the element that I want to position ?> I had envisioned that it would be something like this.... '<div id="position1">' echo "$name" '</div>'; But yea, that doesn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbraCadaver Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Read about the diff between " and ' also the . concatenates strings together: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php echo '<div id="position1">' . $name . '</div>'; Or this: echo "<div id=\"position1\">$name</div>"; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sptrsn Posted February 9, 2011 Author Share Posted February 9, 2011 AbraCadaver you are awesome! That worked great. Thank you so much. I actually have been reading several articles about the ' and ". Just not the brightest crayon in the box. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anups Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 use this way echo '<div id="position1">'.$name.'</div>'; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sptrsn Posted February 9, 2011 Author Share Posted February 9, 2011 Right on. Thanks again all. It worked great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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