Question

I need to do a triple embedding of quotes into PHP in order to execute a javascript command correctly and I was wondering if there was any way to do this.
For example, the thing I’m trying to triply embed is

echo ("<tr id='regular' onMouseOver='highlight($emp,$job,$cust,$lat,$lng)' onMouseOut='unhighlight()'>
                    <td>$emp</td>
                    <td>$job</td>
                    <td>$cust</td>
                    <td>$lat</td>
                    <td>$lng</td>
                   </tr>\n");

The thing is that I need to put in ‘$emp’, ‘$job’, and ‘$cust’, but whenever I put those in it ends the onMouseOver right after the first <td>.

Answer 1

You can’t really nest single quotes within single quotes that way. The easiest solution is to use escaped double quotes.

echo ("<tr id='regular' onMouseOver='highlight(\"$emp\",\"$job\",\"$cust\",\"$lat\",\"$lng\")' onMouseOut='unhighlight()'>
                    <td>$emp</td>
                    <td>$job</td>
                    <td>$cust</td>
                    <td>$lat</td>
                    <td>$lng</td>
                   </tr>\n");