Very Confused! Can You Work This Out?

The tiny piece of code below means, if the alias of a person is unavailable in the database, echo the person's name. Otherwise, echo the alias.

echo (empty($row['alias']) ? $row['name'] : $row['alias']);

PHP:

If the alias is going to be echoed, I want it to be echoed in bold, red font, so I used a span tag and added a CSS class:

echo (empty($row['alias']) ? $row['name'] : "Alias is: <span class=\"boldred\">" . $row['alias']) . "</span>";

PHP:

It worked. However, when it echoes the name and not the alias, my HTML doesn't validate, because it also echoes the closing span tag.

In other words, it either echoes this

Alias is: Alias

or this

Name</span>

(of course, you can't see the span tag). Anyone know how I can fix this?

 

You have your closing bracket for echo in the wrong spot.
It should be

echo (empty($row['alias']) ? $row['name'] : "Alias is: <span class=\"boldred\">" . $row['alias'] . "</span>");

PHP:

 

Thanks, Jezz. It worked!

One reputation point for you!

 

That's good to hear, Thankyou for the rep