Slashes are not being displayed

Question

This is my code:

<?php
      $lname = "templates/generator";
      $link = "<img src=\"{$lname}/data/num_{$row}.png\" alt=\"{$row}\"/>";
      echo $link;
?>

It does return this. Instead of an image, in the Firebug I can read the following:

<img src=" templates generator data num_1.png" alt="1">

So basically it is replacing the slashes with white spaces. Where is the problem in this code?

Answer 1

A better idea would be to stop using messing with your quotes. Just sprintf() for outputting the HTML:

$link = sprintf('<img src="%s/data/num_%s.png" alt="%s"/>', $lname, $row, $row);

Also, while looking at your source, use your browser's View-Source feature, and not Firebug. It may be having it's own issues, as Ben said in the comments.

And to make sure you're not misreading the information, you can use a neat little header() trick:

header('Content-Type: text/plain');

PHP uses Content-Type text/html by default. Add this to the top of your script, and it'll display the HTML without any formatting and you can see what's really going on.

Answer 2

Try this:

Simply you should improve your line like this

$link = '<img src="{$lname}/data/num_{$row}.png" alt="{$row}" />';

Never use same commas in the same line, use different instead.

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Thanks