Question

On my website I have some images that are stored in the same SQL-cell as the rest of the content. When I load the page containing the images and PHP echoes the ‘article’-cell, the images are automatically enclosed in paragraph-tags, which is not what I want. Is there any way to prevent this? I’m not exactly sure wether it’s a browser-side or a server-side issue, but it appears in botch Chrome and FF.

SQL-cell ‘article’:

<img src="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/297522main_image_1244_946-710.jpg"><p>Lorem ipsum</p>

PHP Code:

if ($pageType == 'article') {
            if($pageExists==1) {
                try {
                    $db = new PDO('pdoinfo');
                } catch(PDOException $e) {echo $e->getMessage();}

                $sql = $db->query("SELECT * FROM articles WHERE id=$pageName");
                $result = $sql->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);

                echo ('<div class="article"><h3>');
                echo $result[0]->title;
                echo('</h3><p>');
                echo $result[0]->article;
                echo('<span class="article-data">Geplaatst op <span class="article-date">');
                echo date('d-m-Y', strtotime($result[0]->postdate));
                echo ('</span> door <span class="article-author">');
                echo $result[0]->author;
                echo ('</span><span class="article-broadcast"><span class="st_twitter_hcount" displayText="Tweet"></span><span class="st_facebook_hcount" displayText="Facebook"></span>');
                echo ('</span></span></div>');
            }
            else {
                include('pages/404.php');
            }
        }

Output HTML:

[...]<p><img src="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/297522main_image_1244_946-710.jpg"><p>Lorem ipsum</p>[...]

I just code everything myself, so no CMS involved.
When I enclose the image with p-tags myself, a redundant empty p-tag get’s inserted before the paragraph.

Answer 1

You have an opening <p> on this line echo('</h3><p>'); that never closes so i suspect your seeing that.

There is also no need for all thos echos’s

echo '
<div class="article">
    <h3>'.$result[0]->title.'</h3>
    '.$result[0]->article.'
    <span class="article-data">
        Geplaatst op <span class="article-date">'.date('d-m-Y', strtotime($result[0]->postdate)).'</span> door 
        <span class="article-author">'.$result[0]->author.'</span>
        <span class="article-broadcast">
            <span class="st_twitter_hcount" displayText="Tweet"></span>
            <span class="st_facebook_hcount" displayText="Facebook"></span>
        </span>
    </span>
</div>';