Question

I am trying to query and select data from an sql table and then display it in html. This is my code.

$result = mysqli_query($dbhandle, $query)
    or die(mysql_error().'<br>SQL:'.$query);
echo '<table style ="border:1px solid black;">';

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
    echo '<tr>';
    echo '<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['first_name']}</td>';
    echo '<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['last_name']}</td>';
    echo '<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['grade']}</td>';
    echo '<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['gpaP']}</td>';
    echo "<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['AGP']}</td>";
    echo "<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['awardP']}</td>";
    echo "<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['awardTP']}</td>";
    echo "<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['rigorP']}</td>";
    echo "<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['APP']}</td>";
    echo "<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['positionP']}</td>";
    echo "<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['hoursP']}</td>";
    echo "<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['selectionP']}</td>";
    echo "<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['activityTypeP']}</td>";
    echo "<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['activityYearsP']}</td>";
    echo "<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['date']}</td>";
    echo "<td style="border:1px solid black;">{$row['IP']}</td>";
    echo '</tr>';
}
echo '</table>';

It gives me an error saying there is an unexpected string at the last_name cell. If I remove the style parameters from the cells it works. Somebody point out my error please?

Answer 1

Your code mixes two different styles of quotes, both of which are valid in PHP and both of which require some additional escaping.

You should pick a style (either wrap in single quotes or wrap in double quotes) and then make sure you escape quotes of the same type within the string.