Echo and Sessions

kool77 · #1 (**permalink**) May 30th, 2007, 12:37

Hi I have a code of sessions I want to write "Welcome .$_SESSION['user_name']." to the site "after the user login. but I need the user name and the welcome message to be bold and have a color too, I don't know how to do that in php .. because the code is on the left top corner it is a session. ((it is not in the HTML tags))

I know this only

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<?
session_start();
 
if( isset($_SESSION['user_name']) ){
 
ECHO " Main Menu ";
 
ECHO " Welcome ".$_SESSION['user_name']." to the site";
}
?>

I can't change the style or whatever!

Thanks

karinne · #2 (**permalink**) May 30th, 2007, 13:17

It has to be in HTML tags! Whatever you're spitting out on the browser has to be in HTML tags.

kool77 · #3 (**permalink**) May 30th, 2007, 20:13

I don't know how to add html to a php code, should i use "Print" command and then <font color='red'> for example.. before the message?

Bradster · #4 (**permalink**) May 30th, 2007, 23:01

No, say example on your second echo you wanted it to be red you would write it as this.

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ECHO " <font color='red'>Welcome ".$_SESSION['user_name']." to the site</red>";

Just write in the html code into the echo strings. I think anyway, Im not so good at php myself.

karinne · #5 (**permalink**) May 31st, 2007, 13:01

Yeesh ... <font> element is deprecated!

You can just do

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<?
session_start();
if( isset($_SESSION['user_name']) ){
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">

<head>
    <title>Some title</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    
</head>

<body>
<h1>Main Menu</h1>
<h2>Welcome <?=$_SESSION['user_name']?> to the site</h2>
</body>
</html>
<? }?>

Accurax · #6 (**permalink**) Jun 1st, 2007, 00:16

or you acn echo html tags themselves

eg ;

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echo "<h2>";
echo "Welcome";
echo $_SESSION['foobar'];
echo "To Our site";
echo "</h2>";

you can even add a class or id to the h2 to style it;

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echo "<h2 id=\"welocome\">";
echo "</h2>";

ps;
please keep your php commands in the corect case... echo should be in lower case not capitals

kool77 · #7 (**permalink**) Jun 1st, 2007, 22:32

oh that's very good I learnt a lot about echo.. I didn't imagine that it does all that work.

Thank you very much all.

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