concatenation problem (I think)

[wmk86]

ok, here is the line of code that is giving me a problem (The one that start with "$tag...")

function create ()
    {
    $tag = "<font style=\"font-family: '" . font_name() . "'; font-size: " . font_size() . "pt; " . font_bold() . font_italic() . "\">";
    echo $tag;
    } 

then later I have:

<? create(); ?>hi!</font>

then and it prints:

sans-serif21<font style="font-family: ''; font-size: pt; ">hi!</font>

whats wrong!? Those are my own functions and they all echo something (for example, font_size() echo's a number)

[Fubonis]

In the font_size(), etc. use

function font_size()
{
     // Just an example
     return 8;
} 

return would work, I believe.

[burchyk]

Hey, men, watch your quotes carefully!

I was looking at your code & I can't figure out
the arrangement of quotes

Try this style:

' any tags with <xxx> and ...="xxx" '.$variable.' tags again'

Maybe it's not the key here, but in my case the single
quotes are always doing their job

[wmk86]

thanks to both of you

return is exactly what I need

and I did change all the quotes to single, much easier

thanks again