Problem printing html tags

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Here is the problem:

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<?php

print "<table border=1>\n";

for ($y=1; $y<=12; $y++)
   {
   print "<tr>\n";

   for ($x=1; $x<=12; $x++)
      {
      print "\t<td>";
      print "($x*$y)";
      print "</td>\n";
      }
   print "</tr>\n";
   }

print "</table>\n";

?>



This should create a table of 12*12 with numbers inside. The problem is in this line: " print "<table border=1>\n"; "

If I put quotes around the one, then php comes up with an error. Now, why is this? W3C (afaik) says that these kind of things should have quotes around them. Is this a bug in PHP? Or am I doing something wrong?

Machine running OpenBSD, Apache-1.3.26, PHP-4.2.3

Thanks for your help!

[Jay]

You have to use single quotes, or if you want to use double quotes, backslash them (so they're not interpretted literally)

eg:
print "<table width='1'>\n";
or
print "<table width=\"1\">\n";
or
print '<table width="1">'."\n";

You can't mix the same quote style unless you escape the ones you want interpretted non-literally, and there is a difference between using ' and ".

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Thanks very much!