Please help with constant error

[lingo5]

I can't see what I'm doing wrong here.

When I use this code, the link HOME gets echoes with no problem:

          
<td valign="middle"><?php echo '<a href="index.php"'; 
if(strstr($checkit,"index.php")) echo ' class="clicked"'; 
else echo ' class="menulinks"';
echo '>HOME</a>'; ?></td>

...but when I swap HOME with a php constant, I get nothing...

          
<td valign="middle"><?php echo '<a href="index.php"'; 
if(strstr($checkit,"index.php")) echo ' class="clicked"'; 
else echo ' class="menulinks"';
echo '><?=CNT_TXT_HOME?></a>'; ?></td>

Please help

[Pikachu2000]

You have PHP tags nested within PHP tags. And you shouldn't use short tags or "quick echo" tags anyhow.

[lingo5]

Thanks Pikachu...could you please tell me how to fix that?...I'm still lerning here.

Thanks

[Pikachu2000]

Get rid of the <?= and ?> before and after your constant. You're already within PHP tags at that point.

[lingo5]

hmmm...I have tried that but all I get is "CNT_TXT_HOME" printed instead of just the value of that costant that should be "HOME..."

[Pikachu2000]

Oh yeah, you need to concatenate the constant into the rest of the string.

echo 'Some literal string with a ' . CONSTANT . ' in the middle.';

 

 

[lingo5]

aaaahhh...I see now...thanks a lot!!