PHP coding problem.

Question

I'm trying to display the apostrophe 's after the full name for example Samuel L. Jackson’s but if the last name or middle name is left out the 's is not displayed right for example Samuel ’s can some one help me correct this problem?

Thanks

Here is the PHP code.

if(!empty($first_name) || !empty($middle_name) || !empty($last_name)) {
    echo = $first_name . ' ' . $middle_name . ' ' . $last_name . ' \'s';
}

Answer 1

echo trim($first_name . ' ' . $middle_name . ' ' . $last_name). ' \'s';

should do the trick?

One more issue: If you have a first and last name, there will be two spaces in between... is that going to be a problem at some point?

Answer 2

echo trim($first_name . ' ' . $middle_name . ' ' . $last_name) . '\s';

trim will get rid of any trailing spaces.

Answer 3

Why are you using Single Quote ? You could simply use "'s" no need of escaping.

echo $first_name.(empty($middle_name) ? '' : $middle_name.' ').$last_name."'s"

alternative

$names = array($first_name);
if(!empty($middle_name))
  $names[] = $middle_name;
$names[] = $last_name;
echo implode(' ', $names)."'s";

Answer 4

$full_name = trim($first_name.' '.$middle_name);

if(!empty($full_name) && !empty($last_name)){
  $full_name .=' '.$last_name."'s";
  echo $full_name;
}

Answer 5

$text = array();
if(!empty($first_name)) {
    $text[] = $first_name;
}
if(!empty($middle_name)) {
    $text[] = $middle_name;
}
if(!empty($last_name)) {
    $text[] = $last_name;
}

if(count($text) > 0) {
    echo implode(' ', $text).'\'s';
}

Answer 6

$a = ""
if (!empty($first_name)
  $a .= $first_name . " "
if (!empty($middle_name)
  $a .= $middle_name . " "
if (!empty($last_name) 
  $a .= $last_name . " 's"

This should do the trick.

Answer 7

$full_name = '';

if (!empty($first_name)) {
    $full_name .= $first_name;
}

if (!empty($middle_name)) {
    $full_name .= ' ' . $middle_name;
}

if (!empty($last_name)) {
    $full_name .= ' ' . $last_name;
}

$full_name = trim($full_name);

if (!empty($full_name)) {
    echo $full_name . "'s";
}

Answer 8

echo
  (empty($first_name) ? '' : $first_name) .
  (empty($middle_name) ? '' : ' ' . $middle_name) .
  (empty($last_name) ? '' : ' ' . $last_name) . "'s";

If the variables will always be set:

echo str_replace(
  '  ',
  ' ',
  $first_name . ' ' .
  $middle_name . ' ' .
  $last_name . "'s");

To display a proper single quote in HTML, replace the ' with ’, which displays as ’.

Answer 9

may be

echo htmlspecialchars($full_name, ENT_QUOTES);

will solve the problem