Help with php in links

klycette

I'm trying to echo a link to my site's user, but the trick is that I want to append the session id onto the url in the link. This is what I have so far:

echo "<a href=url.php<?=SID?>>account</a>";

Since this line, along with others, is within php tags as well, I think the php engine is reading the ?> after SID as the end of the entire php script and things are stopping there.

I don't want to rely on php to automatically append the SID, I'd rather do it by hand. And I can't just do this in html, without echoing it, since I only want it to appear under certain conditions.

If someone could tell me the proper syntax to append the SID onto a link that's echoed to the user, I'd really appreciate it.

bad76

Hi,
to make cgi request put a ? after script name and then list of var:

I hope this make sense.

see you

yuraupt

Originally posted by klycette

echo "<a href=url.php<?=SID?>>account</a>";

I suppose that the echo statement you posted is already in PHP mode (inside tags <? ?>). So when you try to put <?=SID?> in the echo statement then the ?> just close your first php tag.

You may fix it by closing php mode, output the link and open it again:

?>
<a href="url.php?<?=SID?>">account</a>
<?

Or like that:
echo "<a href=url.php?".SID.">account</a>";

btw, it's always good to enclose href with ". And please, note bad76's point 😉

klycette

Thank you both for your responses. I must have copied my code incorrectly, because in my original code I did have the ? after the script name. And yes, yuraupt, it was already in php tags, so I'll try one of your methods and see if it's successful