Question

function holiday_hitlist($tablename, $hit_user){      global $host, $user, $pass, $dbname;      $link = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass, $dbname);      print '<div class=\'hit_list\'>             <h3>My Holiday Hitlist</h3>             <p>Five things I want the most, based on my desirability ratings.<br/>You can't go wrong with this stuff!</p>             <ol>';      $sql = 'SELECT title, URL, price FROM $dbname.$tablename WHERE user='$hit_user' AND rank >= 3 ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 5';     $result = mysql_query($sql) or die ('Couldn't retrieve holiday hit list for this user. ' . mysql_error());     while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {         $title = $row['title'];         $url = $row['URL'];         $price = '$' . $row['price'];         $output = print '<li><a href=\'$url\' target=\'_blank\'>$title</a> $price</li>';     }     print '</ol></div>';     return $output; } 

On an HTML page, it puts the ‘1’ immediately following the closing div tag. Why?

Answer 1

See the line

$output = print '<li><a href=\'$url\' target=\'_blank\'>$title</a> $price</li>'; 

you should probably remove the print after the $output =

Or maybe you just need to remove the $output =

I am not quite sure what you intend.

To explain, $output is getting the return value of print ‘…’