Question

I am having a problem converting a div to a php variable. This works great as a div but I need to implement this into my php script to show this if the user is viewing another uses page this will display.

          //Check to see if you are tracking this member. 

   $sqlFollow = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM follow WHERE follower_id= " .$id. " and myMember = " .$viewerID . " LIMIT 1"); 

   $numTrack = mysql_num_rows($sqlFollow);

   if ($numTrack < 1) {
       $divValue = "Track This Person";
       $onclick = "trackMember";    
                  }
    else          {
       $divValue = "Don't Track Person";
       $onclick = "donttrackMember";
            };

    $display_tracking_option = '<div class="track_btn_div" id="addremoveTrack"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="'. $onclick.'"("'.$id.'","'.$viewerID.'");"><span class="follow_b">'.$divValue.'</span></a></div>'; 

Saving this in PHP as a value I am having trouble with the ” vs ‘.

    $display_tracking_option = '<div class="track_btn_div" id="addremoveTrack"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="'. $onclick ."(\''. $id .'\',\''. $viewerID .'\');"><span class="follow_b">"'.$divValue.'"</span></a></div>';

Answer 1

You are adding the stuff to a variable using php so you don’t need to echo anything:

$display_tracking_option = '<div class="track_btn_div" id="addremoveTrack"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="'. $onclick.'("'.$id.'","'.$viewerID.'");"><span class="follow_b">'.$divValue.'</span></a></div>';

Simply concatenate the string.

Alternatively you could use sprintf():

$theString = '<div class="track_btn_div" id="addremoveTrack"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="%s("%s","%s");"><span class="follow_b">%s</span></a></div>'
$display_tracking_option = sprintf($theString, $onclick, $id, $viewerID, $divValue);

Another thing: why do you have inline stuff?