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Setting a Background Image problem

Dec 5th, 2008

Hi All,
I am trying to set background image. I retreived it from the database into $xyzimage variable and then trying it to display in the <body > tag.
When i am trying to display it a tabel cell like <td> it works, but not in <body> tag.
Is there a specific way to do this other than :

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$xyzimage;
//retreived it from database
echo '<body BACKGROUND='.$xyzimage.'>';
$xyzimage;
//retreived it from database
echo '<body BACKGROUND='.$xyzimage.'>';

The same $image works while put in a table cell.

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Re: Setting a Background Image problem

Dec 5th, 2008

Well it could be because the "BACKGROUND" attribute hasn't been used in about 10 years.

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<style type="text/css">
  background-image:url('<?php echo $xyzimage ?>');
</style>
<style type="text/css">
  background-image:url('<?php echo $xyzimage ?>');
</style>

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Re: Setting a Background Image problem

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Originally Posted by ShawnCplus

Well it could be because the "BACKGROUND" attribute hasn't been used in about 10 years.
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<style type="text/css">
  background-image:url('<?php echo $xyzimage ?>');
</style>
<style type="text/css"> background-image:url('<?php echo $xyzimage ?>'); </style>

Thanks fr the quick reply,
Getting error when i use it..

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<style type="text/css">
             background-image:url('<?php echo $profpic ;?>');
       </style>
<style type="text/css">
             background-image:url('<?php echo $profpic ;?>');
       </style>

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<'

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Re: Setting a Background Image problem

Dec 5th, 2008

heh, the style tags can't show up in PHP code.
For future reference echoing out HTML in PHP can create some serious spaghetti code so you should avoid it if possible.
So instead of echoing you would close your PHP tag, then put in those style tags, then re-open your PHP tags

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// some code
?>
<style type="text/css">
 ...
</style>
<?php
 // rest of your code
// some code
?>
<style type="text/css">
 ...
</style>
<?php
 // rest of your code

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Re: Setting a Background Image problem

Dec 5th, 2008

But how is it possible when my image which is retrieved from database is in a php variable

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Re: Setting a Background Image problem

Dec 5th, 2008

If you're inside a PHP script you can open and close your PHP tags as much as you want. Anything not inside the tags will be rendered to the browser as text just as if it were in an HTML file.
The code <?php echo $xyzimage ?> in the CSS is what puts the background image in the CSS

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Re: Setting a Background Image problem

Dec 5th, 2008

Nope not working this code too..

I tried passing it to switch and echo <body> tag from switch.. but seems no luck here too..

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Re: Setting a Background Image problem

Dec 5th, 2008

Just do this if you want to assign it to the body:

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<style type="text/css">
body{
background-image:url('<?php echo $profpic ;?>');
}
</style>
<style type="text/css">
body{
background-image:url('<?php echo $profpic ;?>');
}
</style>

Note: This should go in the head of the document.

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Re: Setting a Background Image problem

Dec 5th, 2008

Can someone tell me Whats wrong with the below part of the code

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I keep getting parse error
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'

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//part of the code
echo '
</head>  
 
';
//$home variable is retrieved from a db 
 
switch ($homelay){
	case 1:
                echo "<body BACKGROUND="bckgnd\bg1.jpg">";
		break;
	case 2:
                echo "<body BACKGROUND="bckgnd\bg2.jpg">";
		break;	
	case 3:
                echo "<body BACKGROUND="bckgnd\bg3.jpg">";
		break;	
 
 
       default: echo "<body BACKGROUND="bckgnd\bg2.jpg">";
		break;
}
 
echo ' <table>';
// rest of the code
//part of the code
echo '
</head>  

';
//$home variable is retrieved from a db 

switch ($homelay){
	case 1:
                echo "<body BACKGROUND="bckgnd\bg1.jpg">";
		break;
	case 2:
                echo "<body BACKGROUND="bckgnd\bg2.jpg">";
		break;	
	case 3:
                echo "<body BACKGROUND="bckgnd\bg3.jpg">";
		break;	
	
       
       default: echo "<body BACKGROUND="bckgnd\bg2.jpg">";
		break;
}

echo ' <table>';
// rest of the code

the above code is the part which keep giving me Parse error as mentioned above.
Any help is appreciated.
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Re: Setting a Background Image problem

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Originally Posted by buddylee17

Just do this if you want to assign it to the body:
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<style type="text/css">
body{
background-image:url('<?php echo $profpic ;?>');
}
</style>
<style type="text/css"> body{ background-image:url('<?php echo $profpic ;?>'); } </style>
Note: This should go in the head of the document.