Echo parse error for creating new php file

Question

Im creating a new php site with this script. I try everything to get $_POST['name'] into the new generated PHP site.

$myFile = "art.php";    
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w'); 
$stringData = "<span>" . echo $_POST['name']; . "</span>";


fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

PHP always tells me that there is an parse error. When I delete the PHP code everything works as expected. I also tried:

$stringData = "<span>" . echo 'test' . "</span>";

So basically every php code I try to add doesn't work.

You can't echo inside of a string assignment. And a semi-colon completely ends the statement. — aynber, Oct 20 '17 at 12:45
You don't use `echo` inside string concatenation. Neither do you use a `;` there. — deceze, Oct 20 '17 at 12:45
Possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35861929/echo-and-echo-in-php/35861959#35861959 — mega6382, Oct 20 '17 at 12:46
Im sorry for the duplicate, I looked at them and tried but it didn't worked for an hour im thankful for every answer. — Alejandro Castro, Oct 20 '17 at 12:53

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 20 '17 at 12:46

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Try this code:

$myFile = "art.php";    
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w'); 
$name = isset($_POST['name']) ? $_POST['name'] : '';
$stringData = "<span>$name</span>";


fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

answered Oct 20 '17 at 12:46

Vasyl Zhuryk

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 20 '17 at 12:44

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Change:

$stringData = "<span>" . echo $_POST['name']; . "</span>";

To:

$stringData = "<span>" . $_POST['name'] . "</span>";

answered Oct 20 '17 at 12:44

Rushikumar

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Echo parse error for creating new php file

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