Echo as Link

Andyr6381

I am trying to echo the follwoing variable as hyperlink, i cannot seem to get this right, any 1 have an idea?

<?php echo $row_Recordset1['url'] ; ?>

regards
Andy

cgraz

What exactly is the problem? If your problem is you're not getting a hyperlink out of that, it's because you need to use <a href. . .> tag

<?

$url = $row_Recordset1['url'];

echo "<a href=" . $url . ">" . $url . "</a>";

?>

Cgraz

Andyr6381

i just tried every way i new, and thought it could be and couldnt get the dam thing to echo as a hyperlink, ive done it with other text but not variables.

cgraz

With text or variables its the same thing. To make a text link:

Take this and apply it to variables. All a variable is is text represented by $variable_name

<?

$url = $row_Recordset1['url'];
echo "<a href=" . $url . ">" . $url . "</a>";

?>

If $url is equal to [url]http://www.yahoo.com,[/url] then this will output (in html)

<a href=http://www.yahoo.com>http://www.yahoo.com</a>

What's not working? Works for me. The only thing I can see that wouldn't work is if your variable has no value. If you echo your variable $row_Recordset1['url'] and it displays properly, then the above code will work. If it doesn't echo properly, then your first problem is figuring out why it's not.

Cgraz

Andyr6381

all good, thanks