How do I not detect quotation marks when putting html into a string in php?

Question

The title says everything, it detects the quotation marks in the HTML. How do I get it to not do this?

$html = fopen($videoname."/video.html", "w") or die("Unable to Play Video");
$txt = "<html><body><video width="1000" controls>
    <source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
</video></body></html>";
fwrite($html, $txt);
fclose($html);

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 26 '14 at 02:45

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as victor says, or:

$txt = '<html><body><video width="1000" controls>
    <source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
</video></body></html>';

or

$txt = <<<EOT
<html><body><video width="1000" controls>
    <source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
</video></body></html>
EOT;

edited Dec 26 '14 at 02:45

Funk Forty Niner

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answered Dec 12 '14 at 00:15

or the third and fourth options you can find here: http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php – Dec 12 '14 at 00:16

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 12 '14 at 00:13

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You need to "escape" your quotation marks. Try the following:

$txt = "<html><body><video width="1000" controls>
    <source src=\"video.mp4\" type=\"video/mp4\">
    Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
</video></body></html>";

answered Dec 12 '14 at 00:13

Victory

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 12 '14 at 00:16

This is known as string escaping

$html = fopen($videoname."/video.html", "w") or die("Unable to Play Video");
$txt = "<html><body><video width='1000' controls>
    <source src='video.mp4' type='video/mp4'>
    Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
</video></body></html>";
fwrite($html, $txt);
fclose($html);

Where you have opened your block with double quotes " " any attributes within must be escaped using single quotes ' ' and vice versa.

How do I not detect quotation marks when putting html into a string in php?

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