html links in PHP

[Anon]

I have a form that checks the database for an email address to send out a password to users who forgot. If the email address is incorrect a message is printed....

$message2="There is no record associated with this email address. Please enter a new one or email us for assistance."

<?php
if ( $message2 != "" )
{
print "<b>$message2</b><p>";
}
?>

My question is can you put a hyperlink in the the actual message? (I tried and got a parser error) Or would I have to just make up an include file for the message?

[gushy]

Uh yeah. Just put <a href=\"#\">text</a>

where # is the link and text is what you want it to say.

You've already used <p>; you can use any html tags, just remember to escape the "s.

-- Nick Gushlow.

[Anon]

yes, you can put in a hyperlink.

I think you got a parse error because you didn\'t escape the quotes.

so you must code it like this:

$message2= \"<a href=\\"somescript.php\\">go here</a>\";

or you can do:

$message2= \"<a href=\'somescript.php\'>go here</a>\";

In your message you didn\'t code a \';\', maybe that\'s the problem ?

[Anon]

That was the problem. I forgot to escape the quotes. Thank you.

[gushy]

It's never anything difficult that stumps us and breaks our programs, it alsways the smallest thing that we forgot. 🙂

I can't count the number of times I've forgotten to escape quotes.

-- Nick Gushlow