Unterminated string constant

[Sirus]

What exactly is an unterminated string constant, and how do I get rid of it?

<a href="#" onclick="window.open('https://www.paypal.com/cart/add=1&business=Sirus%40peoplepc.com&item_name=<? echo "$item" ?>&amount=<? echo "$output[0]" ?>&item_number=<? echo "$output[3]" ?>','cartwin','width=600,height=400,scrollbars,location,resizable,status');">

That is the line it is happening on.

If I remove the amount=<? echo "$output[0]" ?> and replace it with amount=2 then it works just fine. How can I fix this?

Also, sorry I have been asking so many questions lately.

-Jeff

[seanf]

Don't apologise for asking questions that's why we are all here

How are you assigning values to $output?

Sean

[Sirus]

<? $output = file("$dir/$item"); ?>

$output[0] has a value of 5.00

Is it the decimal that is causing it?

-Jeff

[Sirus]

Ok, I know why now.

The string has a line break in it. How can I strip the line breaks from a string, so it is all one line?

Thanks,
-Jeff

[seanf]

I am not getting any errors from your code so it must be something to do with the way you are assigning the values to $output. Can you post the whole code please

Sean

[seanf]

Originally posted by Sirus
Ok, I know why now.

The string has a line break in it. How can I strip the line breaks from a string, so it is all one line?

Thanks,
-Jeff

Like this:

$string = str_replace("\n", "", $string); 

Sean

[Paul S]

Originally posted by Sirus
Ok, I know why now.

The string has a line break in it. How can I strip the line breaks from a string, so it is all one line?

Thanks,
-Jeff

That's right, when you use the file() function, each array element contain a line of the file, incluiding the line, break.
There are several way to do that. I believe the simple one is using the function chop(), which only remove the last character in a string.

[Sirus]

Thanks everyone.

I just did something like this:
$p = str_replace("/n", "", $p);

and it seemed to work, so I am happy.

I won't be asking any more questions for a while because I am finished! Yay!

-Jeff

[Defender1]

Paul, would chop() consider \n one character or 2?

[seanf]

One character:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rtrim.php

Sean