Question

Can anyone explain how to make this code work?

echo '<div id="panel1-under">Welcome <?php echo "$_SESSION['username']"; ?></div>';

I’ve tried removing the single quotes (echo '<div id="panel1-under">Welcome <?php echo "$_SESSION[username]"; ?></div>';), but it doesn’t work.

Answer 1

echo "<div id=\"panel1-under\">Welcome ".$_SESSION['username']."</div>";

or

echo '<div id="panel1-under">Welcome '.$_SESSION['username'].'</div>';

Quick Explain :

• You don’t have to reopen the tags inside a echo String (” … “)
• What I have done here is to pass the string “Welcome “ concatenated to $_SESSION[‘username’] and “” (what the . operator does)

• PHP is even smart enough to detect variables inside a PHP string and evaluate them :

  $variablename = “Andrew”;

  echo “Hello $variablename, welcome “;

=> Hello Andrew, welcome

More infos : PHP.net – echo