PHP echo statement questions . . .

maco

Hi,

Is it possible to change the text font and color using echo statement ?

Thanks . . .

DonkeyStyle \o/

Yes... yes it is.

Civilian_Target

With HTML output? Yes, just add the appropriate tags...

maco

thanks . . .

let say my php code is

echo "this is a test";

how do i display this with a different font and colors ? it defaulted to black at the moment . . .

Karoma

As a script, or is the output to a webpage..?

maco

Sorry for not clarifying it ...

here my php code in html

$query = "Select email from passpf where email = '$emailkey'";
$result = mysql_query($query)
or die ("Couldn't connect to database, please try again");
$num = mysql_num_rows($result);
echo $num;

if ($num == 0)
{
echo "Email ID does not exist, please try again . . .";
}

I just want to display the error message in different font and text. . .

thanks

Bananna man

maco wrote:

Sorry for not clarifying it ...

here my php code in html

$query = "Select email from passpf where email = '$emailkey'";
$result = mysql_query($query)
or die ("Couldn't connect to database, please try again");
$num = mysql_num_rows($result);
echo $num;

if ($num == 0)
{
echo "Email ID does not exist, please try again . . .";
}

I just want to display the error message in different font and text. . .

thanks

Try this:

echo "<font color='red'>Email ID does not exist, please try again . . .</font>";

maco

Thanks Bananna Man it works now . . . .

CuLT

maco, learn html before you learn php.

Or at least learn what php is and what it is used for. It'll save you a lot of hassle.

maco

Sorry Cult if this is a very basic question for you, I know a bit HTML already and just learning PHP, just the sysntax on how to insert color in PHP, I read PHP manual before asking it just does not mentioned there http://ie.php.net/echo, did try few combination but got syntax error. I did spend some time before asking here.

RobertFoster

It might be beneficial to learn HTML first. PHP is all well and good, but you need to know what you want to output before you actually output it.

When using HTML within PHP, probably the most common syntactical error that occurs is users not escaping quotation marks. HTML tags usually define values using quote:
[html]<img src="image.jpg">
...
<a href="link.html">link</a>
...
<div id="main">content</div>[/html]
...and so on.

PHP uses quotation marks to define statements etc. When mixing both HTML and PHP, the quotation marks used in HTML will affect PHP and cause the syntax errors. In order avoid these errors you need to "escape" quotation marks. Bananna man used single quotes ('), but you can also put a backslash infront of each HTML " in your PHP code:
[php]echo("<img src=\"image.jpg\">");
...
echo("<a href=\"link.html\">link</a>");
...
echo("<div id=\"main\">content</div>");[/php]
Like CuLT said, it will save you a lot of hassle in the long run.

CuLT

maco wrote:

Sorry Cult if this is a very basic question for you, I know a bit HTML already and just learning PHP, just the sysntax on how to insert color in PHP, I read PHP manual before asking it just does not mentioned there http://ie.php.net/echo, did try few combination but got syntax error. I did spend some time before asking here.

I'm not looking for an apology or trying to belittle you, php, for the purpose you are using is simply a way of outputting HTML.

If you keep that in mind, it'll be easier to use.

rsynnott

At this point, I would just like to point out this.