Avoid escape characters in PHP echo

Question

Is there a way to avoid the \ escape character in an echo? This works fine but is hard to read. What is the recommended way to handle this?

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
  {
  echo "<td><input id=\"EmpFirstName\" name=\"EmpFirstName\" type=\"text\" value=\"" . $row['EmpFirstName'] . "\"></td>";
  }
echo "</table>";

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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Use single-quotes for the HTML attributes:

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
    echo "<td><input id='EmpFirstName' name='EmpFirstName' type='text' value='{$row['EmpFirstName']}'></td>";
}
echo "</table>";

It doesn't matter if you use single-quotes or double-quotes for HTML attributes. (See the Stack Overflow question Single vs Double quotes (' vs ") )

I also changed ".$row['EmpFirstName']." to {$row['EmpFirstName']}, which is slightly cleaner, and equally valid in PHP when using echo "";.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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answered Feb 27 '14 at 14:31

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`'$row[EmpFirstName]'` is even more cleaner – Your Common Sense Feb 27 '14 at 14:38
it is not the same as I posted it and it will produce an error – Your Common Sense Feb 27 '14 at 17:26

Avoid escape characters in PHP echo

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