How do I use an IF statement in PHP to decide if I should show an image or not?

Question

Question by Chris Danger Gillett

I’m setting up a weather page using the wunderground.com API. Anyway, I want to do the following:

Of the variable $weather is equal to Clear, I want to display an image.

I’ve tried this:

if ($weather=="Clear") echo <img src="http://example.org/clear.gif" alt="Clear"/>

What do I need to do instead?

Answer 1

Try this

if ($weather=="Clear") echo '<img src="http://example.org/clear.gif" alt="Clear"/>';

Answer 2

The code you tried will render ERROR. You need to place the HTML text and any string within quotes, before you echo them.

if ($weather=="Clear") echo '<img src="http://example.org/clear.gif" alt="Clear"/>'

Remaining, there is nothing else to improve 🙂