Using PHP to make a link table

Anon

Basically, I am using this so I don't have to continually edit the damn html every time a link changes. I was hoping I could get this working even as a newbie, but obviously not. Anyway, here's the code. My host tells me the error's on line 13, in case that helps. line 13 is just after the <?php in case the HTML doesn't show.

<body>
<?php
var $news-m = "<a href="news-m.html">main_news</a href>";
var $news-g = "<a href="g-news.html">gaming_news</a href>";
var $news-t = "<a href="t-news.html">tech_news</a href>";
var $dl = "<a href="dl.html">downloads</a href>";
var $plans "<a href="plans.html">.plans</a href>";
var $about = "<a href="about.html">about</a href>";
var $ao = "<a href="ao.html">anarchy_online</a href>";
var $cs = "<a href="cs.html">counter_strike</a href>";
var $dod = "<a href="dod.html">day_of_defeat</a href>";
var $sb = "<a href="sb.html">shadowbane</a href>";
var $t2 = "<a href="t2.html">tribes_2</a href>";
var $uo = "<a href="uo.html">ultima_online</a href>";
var $emu = "<a href="emu.html">emulation</a href>";
var $console = "<a href="c-gaming.html">console_gaming</a href>";
var $br = "";
var $pc = "<a href="pc-gaming.html">pc_gaming</a href>";
zaurin.net index/
news/
echo $news-m ;
echo $news-g ;
echo $news-t ;
main_area/
echo $dl ;
echo $plans ;
echo $about ;
online_gaming/
echo $ao ;
echo $cs ;
echo $dod ;
echo $sb ;
echo $t2 ;
echo $uo ;
offline_gaming/
echo $emu ;
echo $console ;
echo $pc ; ?>
</body>

Anon

try it without the dashes in your variable names. i haven't tested it, but i don't think any programming language takes a dash as valid character in a variable, it parses as minus or negative.

vsego

Dashes are definitely an error!

And you need to escape double quots (change " to \" inside every string).

Not sure, but also "var" should be used only in classes. Otherwise, you should just use the variable as it is:
$news_m = "<a href=\"news-m.html\">main_news</a href>";
$news_g = "<a href=\"g-news.html\">gaming_news</a href>";
...

This closing "</a href>" - is it some new HTML standard replacing the old "</a>" or it's just your style?

Anon

Hello,

I am a newbie also but this one is easy.

needs to be

Just escape all of those " and it should work.