PHP Variable in HTML Table Cell

[johnbrasfield]

In a PHP window that includes an HTML table, how do you put the value of the PHP variable in a table cell?

[Rabbit]

I'm not sure what your question is. There's no difference in how you echo a variable in or out of a table cell. You must have an additional complication that you have not told us about.

[johnbrasfield]

How DO you echo a variable in or out of a table cell

I'm not sure what your question is. There's no difference in how you echo a variable in or out of a table cell. You must have an additional complication that you have not told us about.

I got the value I need into a PHP variable with $uid = $_POST['uid'] and can echo the value of $uid to the window; now I want to put the value into an HTML table cell. Are you saying I should include value=<?php echo $uid ?> when defining the table cell? I do not under stand your phrase 'There's no difference in how you echo a variable in or out of a table cell' how DO you echo a variable in or out of a table cell?

[Rabbit]

An example when you're not doing it in a table cell:

<div><? echo $variable; ?></div>

An example when you're doing it in a table cell:

<td><? echo $variable; ?></td>

There's no difference. Only the surrounding element changes.

[Atli]

PHP doesn't care what you are creating, whether it's a HTML link, HTML table, HTML paragraph, XML elements, JavaScript code, or even things like binary strings. It's all just a bunch of text as far as PHP is concerned. You can put a echo statement wherever you want.

But, just to point one thing out. If you are putting PHP values originating from user input into a HTML page, be sure to run it through htmlentities first. Also, if the values are going into HTML element attributes (like the <input> value attribute), then surround them with quotes.

// Potentially problematic and unsafe.
<input value=<?php echo $variable; ?>>

// Less problematic, but still unsafe.
<input value="<?php echo $variable; ?>">

// Safe and not at all problematic.
<input value="<?php echo htmlentities($variable, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8"); ?>">