XP or IE6 not compatible?

sdc77

Hi
Im new to this forum and Im not very good with PHP. I wonder if anyone can suggest why the following is happening.
We have a php script that hosts classified ads and it generates dynamic hyperlinks to categories.
My computer is running win98se and IE5.5 and all works fine.
However some computers running IE6 and/or XP will not show these dynamic hyperlinks to categories.
The code that generates these links is;
"<a href='add_ad.php?catid=$catid&catfatherid=$catfatherid'>", $file); }
else { $file = str_replace("{URL}", "<a href='index.php?kid=$catid&catname=$catname'>", $file); }
$file = str_replace("{/URL}", "</a>"

My browser interpretes this as <a href='add.............
The other computers (anf there are lots) interprete it as <!--ref='add.....
This is obviously completely wrong and No One seems to be able to help (including the person who sold it to me .. )
I did pay for this script but i am not looking to advertise in any and will only post the url if asked..
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Steve C

bastien

address...it might be that the IE6 is compliant with the xhtml standards and wil not regard the single quote as correct...

echo "<a href=\"add_ad.php?catid=$catid&catfatherid=$catfatherid\">", $file); }
else { $file = str_replace("{URL}", "<a href=\"index.php?kid=$catid&catname=$catname\">", $file); }
$file = str_replace("{/URL}", "</a>"

the \ character escapes the " to prevent php from reading it as the end of the quoted item....

hth

sdc77

Bastien.. thanks for that It certainly works in my browser.. Ill get people to look tomorrow and get back to ya

sdc77

Nope.. Im told that this still isnt working in some browsers.. sorry 🙁

bastien

looking at the html that is generated...it is probably something with the quotes still...

also try echoing back the individual bits of the URL to ensure that all have values and that the quotes are correctly placed...

hth