inserting php within an html tag

Is the following code legitimate?

<li<?php if ($page_identity == "About Us")
echo " id=\"currentpage\""; ?>>
<a href="AboutUs.php" title="...">About Us</a>
</li>

I.e. can I insert the php code within the <li> tag?

It seemed to work before but now by text editor (BBedit) doesn't seem to be recognizing it and this is confirmed when I run the code in my browsers.

Pitto

 

Also, must I escape the ">" character in order to print it within an echo statement?

Take my previous example,
<li<?php if ($page_identity == "About Us")
echo " id=\"currentpage\""; ?>>
<a href="AboutUs.php" title="...">About Us</a>
</li>

Could I add a ">" like this(see bold, underlined >),
<li<?php if ($page_identity == "About Us")
echo " id=\"currentpage\">About Us"; ?>>
<a href="AboutUs.php" title="...">About Us</a>
</li>

or do I need to escape it with a "\"?

If this isn't allowed it could be my problem.

Thanks again,
Pitto

 

Yes you can drop into PHP. And no you don't have to escape the >. If you did escape the output would be:
About Us> About Us .
Problem must be somewhere else.

 

Why not simply echo the '>' as well?

<li<?php if ($page_identity == "About Us") {
echo " id=\"currentpage\"" . ">"; } ?>
<a href="AboutUs.php" title="...">About Us</a>
</li>

Try that.

 

Another easiar to read way

<?PHP
if ($page_identity == "About Us") {
	$id = 'id="currentpage"';
}else{
	$id = ''
}
?>
<li <?php echo $id;?>>
<a href="AboutUs.php" title="...">About Us</a>
</li>

PHP:

 

Jason in your example you forgot to add the id attribute for the li tag.

It should be:
<li id=<?=$id;?>>

 

thanks guys. That got it working.