Question

I want to display a image from the database by using an img tag. Here is my code:

if(  !empty( $cat_id ) ) {
    $cats = getImagesByCategory( $cat_id );
    foreach( $cats as $image ) {
        $id = $image['id'];

        echo <<<IMAGE
        <img src="images/'.$category['name']. '/' .$image['name'].'" />
IMAGE;

I’m getting a error on the img tag: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING

I’m clearly concatenating wrong – how can I fix this error?

Answer 1

Your <img> tag is broken:

<img src="images/'.$category['name']. '/' .$image['name'].'" />
                ^^^                ^^^   ^^^            ^^^

You’re using heredoc syntax, you don’t do string concatenation in heredoc. Try something along the lines of:

<img src="images/$category[name]/$image[name]" />

Cheers