Why won't this link work?...

evo4ever

Hey guys! I have a problem echo'ing PART of a link from a db!

heres the code....

<?php echo "<font face=\"Tahoma\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"display.php?mid=\"" . $a_row["username"] . ">" . $a_row["username"] . "</a></font>"; ?>

The text gets echo'ed from the db ok. but it wont get into the link tag it's self!

the result of the link is: display.php?mid=. Any suggestions?

128kb_com

It looks like your quoting you query string which you dont need.

eg.
display.php?mid=\"" . $a_row["username"]....// more stuff

if you want quotes in your query string you'll have to urlencode() them which you should probably do anyway, but name=username&something=theotherthing is sufficient enough.

evo4ever

Hmm. i got rid of \". New code:


echo "<font face=\"Tahoma\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"display.php?mid= " . $a_row["username"] . ">" . $a_row["username"] . "</a></font>";

It didnt work!... well look for yourself! www.clanph.net/display.php

128kb_com

You still have a space in the query string.

display.php?mid= "

Try to keep your query strings in the format of:

var1=value&var2=value ....

and urlencode() your variables:

echo "<font face=\"Tahoma\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"display.php?mid=" . urlencode($a_row["username"]) . "\">" .  urlencode($a_row["username"]) . "</a></font>";

You also missing the > on the opening <a> tag: '<a href.... </a>

evo4ever

Sry u are wrong.. ive just fixed it my way :p lol

new code:


<?php echo "<font face=\"Tahoma\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"display.php?mid=" . $a_row["mid"] . "\">" . $a_row["username"] . "</a></font>"; ?>

"mid" is the last part of the url display.php?mid=$mid. And "username" is the link text (which gets displayed). have a look: www.clanph.net/display.php. Refer to the right hand side of the page, where the members are.

PS: I changed ">" to "\">". Which fixed it