How to echo my HTML in PHP and get rid of an error message?

Question

I'm trying to loop through an array and pass the values into HTML. My loop echos a large block of code. This is a small portion of the code I'm struggling with.

<p class='gl-item-title'>'.$array['title']'</p>
<p class='gl-item-category'>'.$array['type']'</p>

I get this error message

Parse error:

syntax error, unexpected '' (T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE), expecting identifier (T_STRING) or variable (T_VARIABLE) or number (T_NUM_STRING) in C:\MAMP\htdocs\simsestate\Sims-esate\index.php on line 223

I don't understand this error. Would somebody give tips on how to echo big chunks of HTML in PHP?

Seems like you're missing a catenation operator `.` after the `$array[*]` bits. — Juan Tomas, Jun 23 '16 at 18:41
Seems like you're missing a lot from these two lines of code... — David, Jun 23 '16 at 18:42
I suggest you read through a php tutorial. The first lesson should cover this particular problem. — Christoffer, Jun 23 '16 at 18:49

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 23 '16 at 18:41

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<p class='gl-item-title'>'.$array['title'].'</p>
<p class='gl-item-category'>'.$array['type'].'</p>

When you join strings you have to use dot, I don't know how rest of your code looks like but in this part you forgot dot after array index variable

answered Jun 23 '16 at 18:41

semafor

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score 0 · Answer 2 · 2016-06-23T18:52:08.587

Use double quotes " or escaped single quotes \' for your HTML, additionally you miss a . after $array[''] variables

echo '<p class="gl-item-title">'.$array['title'].'</p>';
echo '<p class="gl-item-category">'.$array['type'].'</p>';

The above can be written also like this:

<p class="gl-item-title"><?php echo $array['title']; ?></p>
<p class="gl-item-category"><?php echo $array['type']; ?></p>

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 23 '16 at 18:45

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You're going to need another dot after the variable. Try this:

echo '<p class=\'gl-item-title\'>'.$array['title'].'</p>';

edited Jun 23 '16 at 18:45

answered Jun 23 '16 at 18:44

thatrandomguy

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How to echo my HTML in PHP and get rid of an error message?

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