I have a html form with a textbox in which i want to pull the name of the person signed in to automatically be filled in the text box when the page loads. below is the code i am using.
<input type="text" autocomplete="off" name="createdby" id="createdby" value= <?= $first_name.' '.$last_name ?> readonly>
the issue is with the php code
<?= $first_name.' '.$last_name ?>
Because of the space between .' ' . the last name does not show. however when i remove the space both the first name and the last name show but without any spaces. How do i pull both names from the database and have them separated
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I believe it needs to look as follows:
<...value="<?= $first_name.' '.$last_name ?>" readonly>
You should use double quotes around your php tags.
implode()
looks better then such concatenation:
implode(' ', array($first_name, $last_name));
Convert this:
<?= $first_name.' '.$last_name ?>
Into this:
<?php echo $first_name.' '.$last_name ?>
Or this if you want to simplify variables concatenation:
<?php echo “$first_name $last_name” ?>
Use the standard php tags and explicitly echo your values