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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Listing and Sorting Inventory Items Item Details and Redirection

Pepijn Dekker
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Pepijn Dekker
Courses Plus Student 5,231 Points
Posted by Pepijn Dekker
Pepijn Dekker
Courses Plus Student 5,231 Points

Image will not load on the /details.php?id=102.

I think it's got to do with the <img src="<?php echo line. I followed Alena's direction and the alt tags load but the images on each id= page just wont show. Any ideas?

<?php 
include("inc/data.php");
include("inc/functions.php");

if (isset($_GET["id"])){
  $id = $_GET["id"];
  if (isset($catalog[$id])){
    $item = $catalog[$id];
  }
}
if (!isset($item)){
  header("location:catalog.php");
  exit;
}

$pageTitle = $item["title"];
$section = null;

include("inc/header.php"); ?>

<div class="section page">

  <div class="wrapper">

    <div class="media-picture">

      <span>

        <img src"<?php echo $item["img"]; ?>" alt="<?php echo $item["title"]; ?> "/>

      </span>

    </div>

  </div>

</div>
Pepijn Dekker
Pepijn Dekker
Courses Plus Student 5,231 Points
Pepijn Dekker
Pepijn Dekker
Courses Plus Student 5,231 Points

SO I had. 

<img src"<?php echo $item["img"]; ?>" alt="<?php echo $item["title"]; ?> "/>

Found someone had recommended this version.

<img src="<?= $item["img"]; ?>" alt="<?= $item["title"]; ?>" />

Why do we drop the php echo and move the = inside the < ?

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

<?= is a shorthand PHP syntax to echo something to the screen. not recommended historically (not all environments supported it, I think). see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2020445/what-does-mean-in-php

2 Answers

Lyle Lewton
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Lyle Lewton
Courses Plus Student 10,585 Points
Lyle Lewton
Lyle Lewton
Courses Plus Student 10,585 Points

Hey! it looks like you just forgot an equals sign after "src" in your code.

change <img src"<?php echo $item["img"]; ?>" alt="<?php echo $item["title"]; ?> "/> to <img src="<?php echo $item["img"]; ?>" alt="<?php echo $item["title"]; ?> "/>

I hope that helps :)

Dennis Amiel Domingo
Dennis Amiel Domingo
15,357 Points
Dennis Amiel Domingo
Dennis Amiel Domingo
15,357 Points

I too was having the same problem - the image for the item wasn't showing up. I had the exact same code. I checked my image source and the equals sign was already there.

What I did was change the double quotes for $item["img"] to single quotes (did the same for "title"), like so:

<img src="<?php echo $item['img'];?>" alt="<?php echo $item['title'];?>"/>

That solved it!