variable as Link problem...

[mgandha]

I have a variable called $link = 'Post an Openning' for example sent through the URL..
like so: (i use / instead of & and ?)

http://something.com/dev/list.php/postjob/Post%20an%20Openning

on this page, i print(" $link "); and its fine it will give me Post and Openning.

But if i need to include it in a URL again.. like

<a href=http://something.com/dev/listagain.php/postjob/$link>

how do i do this..?? what is the syntax for including a variable in the href

[phpenth]

Try this:

<a href=http://something.com/dev/listagain.php/postjob/<?php echo($link) ?>>

Obivously the file holding the above should a php file.

Regards

[Jhorra]

Or you could make the whole line php and echo it.

<?php
echo "<a href=http://something.com/dev/listagain.php/postjob/".$link.">";

Either way should work. It didn't work because you had php code outside of a php tag.

[tekky]

I would bet you need to encode the variable...

<?
echo '<a href=http://something.com/dev/listagain.php/postjob/' .urlencode($link). '>'; 
?>

[stolzyboy]

not in all cases do you need to urlencode/urldecode

however it is a good habit to get into and to keep your code portable

[tekky]

I understand that, but from my experience, some browsers ONLY auto encode urls that are typed into the goto bar, hrefs arent always done...