HTML/CSS/PHP - multiple quotation marks

Question

We all know that a quotation mark must have it's partner. But how will I do it if I got 3 consecutive elements that wil use up a quotation mark (PHP echo, HTML and CSS class, Javascript function)? Something like this

echo '
    <tr class="table-body" onclick="showMenu('edit-user-window')">
        <td> <input type="submit" class="delete-but graphic-buts" value="" /> </td>
        <td> <a href="/res/doc.docx" target="_blank"> User </a> </td>
        <td> Pass </td>
        <td> user </td>
        <td> View-Only </td>
    </tr>
';

The echo's quotation mark breaks at the start of my onclick function. How do I do it?

Use backward slash before the quotation mark... – qtgye Jul 31 '14 at 01:03 — qtgye, Jul 31 '14 at 01:03

Darren · Answer 1 · 2014-07-31T01:53:13.930

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You can simply escape it:

echo ' <tr class="table-body" onclick="showMenu(\'edit-user-window\')">.....';

Notes

The error you are receiving comes because you effectively "break" the string at those points. It is bad concatenation. And by using the \ before those commas ('), you're telling the php interpreter to ignore the character that follows that slash (\) which, in this case is the comma (').

edited Jul 31 '14 at 01:53

answered Jul 31 '14 at 01:09

Darren

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The first solution would not work as the OP is also using speech marks in the string. – Dave Clarke Jul 31 '14 at 01:10
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@swiss196 Good spot, Didn't see that. Edited. – Darren Jul 31 '14 at 01:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 31 '14 at 01:10

Skip it using the slash

echo '
    <tr class="table-body" onclick="showMenu(\'edit-user-window\')">
        <td> <input type="submit" class="delete-but graphic-buts" value="" /> </td>
        <td> <a href="/res/doc.docx" target="_blank"> User </a> </td>
        <td> Pass </td>
        <td> user </td>
        <td> View-Only </td>
    </tr>
';

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 31 '14 at 01:10

You can use \ to escape a character, so your example would look like:

echo '
    <tr class="table-body" onclick="showMenu(\'edit-user-window\')">
        <td> <input type="submit" class="delete-but graphic-buts" value="" /> </td>
        <td> <a href="/res/doc.docx" target="_blank"> User </a> </td>
        <td> Pass </td>
        <td> user </td>
        <td> View-Only </td>
    </tr>
';

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 31 '14 at 01:11

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Use backslash like this...

onclick="showMenu(\'edit-user-window\')"

Backslashes are used in PHP to escape special characters within quotes.

answered Jul 31 '14 at 01:11

jned29

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 31 '14 at 01:11

Use either a backward slash \ before ' -> \' (also works if you work with strings encapsulated in " -> \")

echo '
    <tr class="table-body" onclick="showMenu(\'edit-user-window\')">
        <td> <input type="submit" class="delete-but graphic-buts" value="" /> </td>
        <td> <a href="/res/doc.docx" target="_blank"> User </a> </td>
        <td> Pass </td>
        <td> user </td>
        <td> View-Only </td>
    </tr>
';

or use heredoc syntax

echo <<<EOT
    <tr class="table-body" onclick="showMenu('edit-user-window')">
        <td> <input type="submit" class="delete-but graphic-buts" value="" /> </td>
        <td> <a href="/res/doc.docx" target="_blank"> User </a> </td>
        <td> Pass </td>
        <td> user </td>
        <td> View-Only </td>
    </tr>
EOT;

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 31 '14 at 01:17

when you are using single quotes use only double qoutes in it or vice versa as

echo '
 <tr class="table-body" onclick="showMenu("edit-user-window")">
        <td> <input type="submit" class="delete-but graphic-buts" value="" /> </td>
        <td> <a href="/res/doc.docx" target="_blank"> User </a> </td>
        <td> Pass </td>
        <td> user </td>
        <td> View-Only </td>
    </tr>

'

or

echo "
 <tr class='table-body' onclick='showMenu('edit-user-window')'>
        <td> <input type='submit' class='delete-but graphic-buts' value='' /> </td>
        <td> <a href='/res/doc.docx' target='_blank'> User </a> </td>
        <td> Pass </td>
        <td> user </td>
        <td> View-Only </td>
    </tr>

"

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