How can I echo an HTML "a href" link?

[Anon]

I'm getting errors if I try something along the lines of...

echo "<a href="http://www.phpbuilder.com" target="_blank">phpbuilder</a>";

Can I not do this? If not, how could I?

[khaine]

The problem is the quotes in the echo try using

echo "<a href=\"http://www.phpbuilder.com\" target=\"_blank\">phpbuilder</a>";

instead.

[tijger]

it is indeed possible to escape the quotes with slashes, but that is more typing ;-) and we programmers are lazy, yes?

so you could do the following when you have to use double quotes in HTML:

echo '<a href="http://www.phpbuilder.com" target="_blank">phpbuilder</a>';

use single quotes for your echo, and problem is solved. (mind: when you have text with many single quotes you have to escape the single quotes.)

i almost always use the single quotes, the double quotes come in handy when you have to use \n etc.

greetings