I'm trying to get my website to display who's logged in, (i.e Hello Mike, or Welcome Mike) in PHP

Question

as above when a user is logged into my website, I want it to say hello or welcome "user"

i'm using the code below:

 [code]      
 <?php
 $user = $_GET['session_is_registered'];
 echo ('$user'); 
 ?>
 [/code]       

but the php just displays "$user"

what am I doing wrong?

thanks

Answer 1

When using ' single quotes, it means literal. You don't need any quotes.

 echo $user;

Thats it.

Answer 2

Use double quotes if you want to evaluate $user variable inside a string. Otherwise just use:

echo $user;

As other answers have already stated.

Answer 3

just use

echo $user;

echo is a keyword, not a function, so you don't need the parenthesis. Also, to evaluate variables inside a string you need to use double quotation marks e.g. echo "Hello, $user";. If you're just using the variable on its own you don't need the quotation marks at all.

echo $user;
echo 'Hello, ' . $user;
echo "Hello, $user.  Your last visit was $lastVisitDate.";