echo double quotes for javascript

[ggalan]

i have to echo out a line :


echo "<td valign='top' align='right' height='38'><a class='textBlockClick1' href='javascript:loadContent('#popoutBox', 'inst.html');'>click btn</a></td>";


but the single quote around javascript have to be double


href="javascript:loadContent('#popoutBox', 'inst.html');"


how can do this? or is there a workaround??

[bluewalrus]

You can do it three ways
1. Use single quotes
2. Escape them with \
3. Just output it as html/javascript



1.

echo '<td valign="top" align="right" height="38"><a class="textBlockClick1" href="javascript:loadContent("#popoutBox", "inst.html");">click btn</a></td>';

2.

echo "<td valign=\"top\" align=\"right\" height=\"38\"><a class=\"textBlockClick1\" href=\"javascript:loadContent(\"#popoutBox\", \"inst.html\");\">click btn</a></td>";

3.

?>
<td valign="top" align="right" height="38"><a class="textBlockClick1" href="javascript:loadContent("#popoutBox", "inst.html");">click btn</a></td>
<?php

[ggalan]

awesome, thank you.
btw what does escape do?

[traq]

backslashing ( \ ) a special character (in this case, double-quotes) tells php to treat it as the literal character, and not parse it as php code.

[bluewalrus]

Wasn't really sure of a good definition so here's a link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_character