display post tags on single.php inside loop

Question

I want to display the tags of the current post in the single.php and do the following:

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <h1 class="single_h"><?php the_title(); ?></h1> 
    <p class="single_subline"><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'subline', true) ?></p>
    <!-- everythings fine til here -->   
    <p class="single_tags"><?php echo wp_get_post_tags($post->ID); ?></p> 
<?php endwhile; endif; ?> 

and everything just works fine, except the wp_get_post_tags method. All I get displayed inside the .single_tags is the string Array.

I am new to wordpress and would like to know what I am doing wrong.

Thanks

Answer 1

You're getting Array because that's exactly what wp_get_post_tags returns; an array (and when you try and echo one in PHP it'll simply output Array).

As @Chip Bennet suggested, use the_tags() instead, which outputs an HTML string.