Question

Hi I tried to echo a image (as a part of an if/else code), but I couldn’t really do it.

Here’s my code:

echo "<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" ><img src="<?php bloginfo( 'template_directory' ); ?>/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'image_value', true ); ?>&amp;w=225&amp;h=246&amp;zc=1" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>";

As you can see its obviously because of the ” and ‘.
The tags attributes (by attributes I mean ‘alt’ ‘src’ etc..) require a ” while the php tags only work with ‘ .. so I didn’t really know what to do hehe..

Any suggestions?

By the way, the CMS is wordpres. If it helps..

Answer 1

The issue is WordPress functions like the_permalink and bloginfo use the echo function as well, so it doesn’t work when you try to put the two together. They don’t return anything. Instead, you want to use the functions that will return a string, so you can concatenate the return values with the HTML you want to output.

Try this:

echo "<a href='" . get_permalink() . "' rel='bookmark'><img src='" . get_bloginfo('template_directory') . "'/timthumb.php?src=";

You can fill in the rest.

Note: be wary of the rest of the answers. They appear to be answering the root of your question, but they ignore the nuances of the wordpress functions.