I'm trying to print out the value of a variable within another string.

Here is what I'm trying to do:

$output = '<section >'

$alignment has the value of left or right. The above renders when inspecting:

<section >

I have also tried:

$output = ' <section >'

But this renders:

<section >

And have also tried:

$output = ' <section >'

But this renders:

<section >

I have tried all methods I've seen on other SO questions, but can't get it printing the value?

CodePudding user response：

This code of yours should work

$output = ' <section >'

If it doesn't then the $alignment variable is just empty or doesn't exist, try an "echo $alignment" before your $output line to see if you get something.