PHP - How To Restore / Close Truncated Html Tags..?

Hello,

I'm having a bit of trouble with the following:

<?php echo htmlentities('<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory');?>/images/my-image.png" / rel="nofollow">'); ?>

As you can see, I am trying to use php to call the template directory but it isn't being recognized as a php statement.  I'm new to php and I'm pretty certain my syntax is not right.  Can someone provide a bit of guidance?  Thank you.

Quint

Say I have the following text stored in a MySQL database...

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<b>Classic Quote from movie</b>
and I retrieve it into a variable called $text, how do I properly echo that so that it keeps the bold tags and actually display the text "Classic quote from movie" in BOLD?

I'm doing something wrong somewhere along the line (simply doing "echo $text;") because it displays on the page as...

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<b>Classic Quote from movie</b>

Instead of...

Classic Quote from movie

Any info on properly storing and echoing back HTML would be very appreciated.

Do anyone know how i can put the html tags in the same line as the other html tags?

Here's an example:

Code: [Select]
Images | Link | Delete | Enabled

On my code, it break the tags to the new line without put on the same line as the other tags.


Here's the code:

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[code]<?php
session_start();
    define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
    define('DB_USER', 'myusername');
    define('DB_PASSWORD', 'mypass');
    define('DB_DATABASE', 'mydbtable');

    $errmsg_arr = array();
    $errflag = false;

    $link = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD);
    if(!$link) {
  die('Failed to connect to server: ' . mysql_error());
    }

    $db = mysql_select_db(DB_DATABASE);
    if(!$db) {
  die("Unable to select database");
    }

   function clean($var){

return mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($var));
    }

    $username = clean($_GET['user']);
    $password = clean($_GET['pass']);
    if($username == '') {
  $errmsg_arr[] = 'username ID missing';
  $errflag = true;
    }
    if($password == '') {
  $errmsg_arr[] = 'PASSWORD ID missing';
  $errflag = true;
    }

    if($errflag) {
  $_SESSION['ERRMSG_ARR'] = $errmsg_arr;
  echo implode('<br />',$errmsg_arr);
   }
   else {
  $qry="SELECT * FROM members WHERE username='$username' AND passwd='$password'";
  $result=mysql_query($qry) or die('Error:<br />' . $qry . '<br />' . mysql_error());

if(mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
  $qrytable1="SELECT images, id, public FROM members WHERE username='$username'";
  $result1=mysql_query($qrytable1) or die('Error:<br />' . $qry . '<br />' . mysql_error());

  while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result1)) {  
  echo '<p id="images"> <a href="images.php?id='.$row['id'].'">Images</a></td> | <a href="http://' .  $row["links"] . '">Link</a> </td> | <a href="delete.php?id='.$row['id'].'">Delete</a> </td> |  <p> <p id="test">'.$row['Public'].'</td>'';
  }
}
}
?>[/code]

Not to say that this occurs in every php software out there, but I far too occasionally notice that the application is written with scattered php open and close tags, for instance

<?php if(true) ?>
<?php { ?>
Blah blah blah, because it's true
<?php } else { ?>
because it's not true
<?php } ?>

To me, it is extremely irritating.   Regardless, I see a lot of open source software written this way and I can't help but think that there must be some underlying reason for it.  Magento, for example, is written exactly in this manner.  The templates are infested with these opened and closed php snippets.  Obscurity is not security so I'm ruling security reasons out.  Maybe it is more efficient? -- But I couldn't understand why, if so.  It seems like that would put more of a drag on the system itself causing php to start and stop parsing continually and excessively, then again, I'm no expert in the field of memory consumption and other operating system complexities.   Honestly, in my opinion, it is stupid.  i would never write a program that way..   HEREDOCs are much more useful and eye pleasing than that awful <?php { ?>   I had the misfortune a few months ago when I purchased an invoicing/customer maintenance system that I didn't know was written for PHP 5.2 or something lower, one that allowed short tags; and thus short tags were used in the same manner as I've described.   Is this just plain disorganization or is there some deep-seated inner lining advantage that I'm not aware of?

I have some data that when I type in a string in a text box, (e.g. John Smith), the data is trunctated when it is inserted into the database (only 'John; would show up).  I noticed that it seems to cut the data off after a white space. If I combine the words, then they are inserted properly.

Does this sound like something simple I'm missing or is it something more complex?

The text size is 20 and the db field is Varchar 30.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.