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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Creating the Menu and Footer Starting the Project

Maria De Bruyn
Maria De Bruyn
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Posted by Maria De Bruyn
Maria De Bruyn
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Why do we only echo the date and the title in PHP?

Just curious why we echo the date and title and not any other lines of code for this part of the project.

3 Answers

Jack McDowell
Jack McDowell
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Jack McDowell
Jack McDowell
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The other lines of code that not echoed (like the "Shirts 4 Mike" after the date) are outside of the PHP code (the <?php ?> tags) and are interpreted as HTML, therefore there is no need to echo them out at this point, although they could be echoed out. HTML tags and text would also be echoed out from PHP if it is coming from inside a function or a logic statement, but you'll learn about that later in the videos! -Jack

Jack McDowell
Jack McDowell
37,797 Points
Jack McDowell
Jack McDowell
37,797 Points

You're welcome; do you mind marking the question as answered? Thanks!