Title: Php echoes before everything
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Php echoes before everything

 *  [chrismise](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrismise/)
 * (@chrismise)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-echoes-before-everything-1/)
 * I placed this code on my sidebar to show the recent posts.
    The php tags(the_permalink
   and the_title) appear before everything, not inside the code as i want.
 * I’m usind in_category inside get_posts.
 * The PHP code
 *     ```
       <?php
       $posts = get_posts('numberposts=10&offset=1');
       foreach($posts as $post) :
       setup_postdata($post);
       ?>
   
       <?php if ( in_category(5) ) {
       echo '<li><a href=/"'.<em>the_permalink()</em>.'/" alt=/"Leia o post/"><b>'.<em>the_title()</em>.'</b></a>';
       } else {
       echo '<span class="bad-cat">This is a BAD category</span>';
       }
       ?>
   
       <?php endforeach; ?>
       ```
   
 * The result is like this
 * `http://localhost/wordpress/?p=31Gamurize<a href=/"/" alt=/"Leia o post/"><b>
   </b></a>`
 * And should be like this
 * `<a href="http://localhost/wordpress/?p=31" alt=/"Leia o post/"><b>Gamurize</
   b></a>`
 * Why is this happening???

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 *  [Glenn Ansley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blepoxp/)
 * (@blepoxp)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-echoes-before-everything-1/#post-542946)
 * Check your other post concerning this:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/111657?replies=3](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/111657?replies=3)

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-echoes-before-everything-1/#post-542946)
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