Quotes not appearing after variables

[Josh]

I have this block of code....

while($i <= $count)
{
$final = mysql_fetch_row ($result);
$blocknamelist .= "<a style = \"cursor: pointer\" onmouseout =
\"clear_desc()\ " ";
$blocknamelist .= "onclick = delete_block(\" $final[1]\",\"$final[2]\")
onmouseover = display_desc(\" $final[2]\") >";
$blocknamelist .= "<font color = \"red\">X</font></a>&nbsp;<br />\n";
$i++;
}

This is the output:

<a style =" cursor: pointer" onmouseout =" clear_desc()" onclick =
delete_block("Q L","Quick Links) onmouseover = display_desc("Q uick
Links) ><font color =" red">X</font></a>&nbsp;<br />
<a style =" cursor: pointer" onmouseout =" clear_desc()" onclick =
delete_block("A D","Admin Menu) onmouseover = display_desc("A dmin Menu)[color=blue]
><font color =" red">X</font></a>&nbsp;<br />[/color]

As you can see, around Quick Links the quote sequence never shows up
as well as around Admin Menu. I can't figure this out. I have tried
these sequences:

'text "' . $variable . '" more text';
"text \"". $variable . "\" more text";
<<<EOD Text "$variable" more text EOD;

Among as many other patterns I could think of.

What I don't understand is. If I do this:

$test = '"' . $variable . '"';
it works exactly how I want it to act, as well as the same with every
above pattern I have tried. it is only when I try and get it to print
in the above manner within the javascript function calls that I get a
problem. Do the parenthesis in the string effect it some how? I've
never seen it do this before, so I am bamboozled. Any and all help is
appreciated.

[Josh]

Re: Quotes not appearing after variables

Someone must have some ideas, come on now, please?

[Josh]

Re: Quotes not appearing after variables

Well I finally got it today. I tried and still try the single quotes
and it fails saying "Unterminat ed String Literal". Anyways what I
ended up having to do is just add a single quote around the entire
javascript function call. I am really baffled as to why that code
worked for you though :-\. Anyways here is my revised code.

$blocknamelist .= "<a style = 'cursor: pointer;' onmouseout =
'clear_desc()' ";
$blocknamelist .= "onclick =
'delete_block(\ "$final[1]\",\"$final[2]\")' onmouseover =
'display_desc(\ "Delete $final[2] Block\")' >";
$blocknamelist .= "<font color = 'red'>X</font></a>&nbsp;\n";

I have no idea why adding those single quotes made any effect on it
displaying the double quotes, it still makes no sense to me and I
would be really intrigued to see an explanation of this. Especially
when a variable can hold the information fine, but as soon as I try to
concantenate<sp ?> it messes everything all up. Very strange behavior
indeed. But thank you for your responses.

Josh

[Josh]

Re: Quotes not appearing after variables

Well I finally got it today. I tried and still try the single quotes
and it fails saying "Unterminat ed String Literal". Anyways what I
ended up having to do is just add a single quote around the entire
javascript function call. I am really baffled as to why that code
worked for you though :-\. Anyways here is my revised code.

$blocknamelist .= "<a style = 'cursor: pointer;' onmouseout =
'clear_desc()' ";
$blocknamelist .= "onclick =
'delete_block(\ "$final[1]\",\"$final[2]\")' onmouseover =
'display_desc(\ "Delete $final[2] Block\")' >";
$blocknamelist .= "<font color = 'red'>X</font></a>&nbsp;\n";

I have no idea why adding those single quotes made any effect on it
displaying the double quotes, it still makes no sense to me and I
would be really intrigued to see an explanation of this. Especially
when a variable can hold the information fine, but as soon as I try to
concantenate<sp ?> it messes everything all up. Very strange behavior
indeed. But thank you for your responses.

Josh

[Michael Fesser]

Re: Quotes not appearing after variables

.oO(Josh)
[color=blue]
>Well I finally got it today. I tried and still try the single quotes
>and it fails saying "Unterminat ed String Literal".[/color]

What PHP version? Can you strip it down to a short line of code (as
short as possible) that still shows the error?
[color=blue]
>I have no idea why adding those single quotes made any effect on it
>displaying the double quotes,[/color]

Quotes are necessary because onXXX are attributes in HTML, their values
should be single- or double-quoted. But I have no idea how or why this
affects PHP.
[color=blue]
>it still makes no sense to me and I
>would be really intrigued to see an explanation of this. Especially
>when a variable can hold the information fine, but as soon as I try to
>concantenate<s p?> it messes everything all up.[/color]

concatenate

Your (old) code works on my system (PHP 5.0.0 and 4.3.3). And so does
the following:

$blocknamelist = "<a style = 'cursor: pointer;'
onmouseout = 'clear_desc()'
onclick = 'delete_block(\ "$final[1]\",\"$final[2]\")'
onmouseover = 'display_desc(\ "Delete $final[2] Block\")'[color=blue]
><font color = 'red'>X</font></a>&nbsp;\n";[/color]

Micha