PHP echo inside input dont work?

Question

<input name="name" type="text"  
       id="nome" size="45"  maxlength="35" value=<?php echo "need help" ?>/> 

// output "need" but i expect "need help"

it was a POST var string of a name, but just out puts the fist name, then i realised the echo or print do not work with whitespace inside the tag value, like echo do outside

what the solution to "need help"??

Answer 1

Currently, your HTML mark up would look like:

<input name="name" type="text"  
           id="nome" size="45"  maxlength="35" value=need help/> 
                                               ^--------^

As it's evident from the syntax highlighting here, only need is considered as part of the value attribute. help is being considered as a separate new attribute.

You need quotes around the attribute value:

<input name="name" type="text"  
       id="nome" size="45"  maxlength="35" value="<?php echo "need help" ?>"/> 
                                                 ^                         ^ 

Answer 2

try this code.

<input name="name" type="text"  
       id="nome" size="45"  maxlength="35" value="<?php echo 'need help'; ?>"/>