Quickie - Real simple I'm sure

Tab

Hi.....

I currently have this piece of code which outputs what it should perfectly :

echo '&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="javascript: openpopup(\''.$song.'\',\''.$category.'\')">Listen</a>';
			echo "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$song";
			echo "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$lexdownload<br>";

What want to do is take away the echo's and add the lines to a variable.... I tried this :

$boxstuff = '&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="javascript: openpopup(\''.$song.'\',\''.$category.'\')">Listen</a>';
			$boxstuff .= "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$song";
			$boxstuff .= "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$lexdownload<br>";

But it REALLY didnt work, I'm sure all the speech marks etc.. in the strings are getting it confused...

Any idea how I can get the above three strings into the $boxstuff variable???

Thanks

Tab 🙂

bubblenut

what's this bit all about?

">penpopup(''.$song.'',''.$category.'')">Liste
if the penpopup function is javascript then it should be in some on[action] attribute if it's supposed to be php then bring it out of the string. Also, yes, you do have a problem with your quotation, your single quotes to be precise./ In the same string, above, you try to drop out of the string but to not escape the single quotes (unless it's the board screwing up the backslashes.) If that's the case then the only problem is going to be that erroneously placed function call.
Bubble

The_Chancer

Try this instead

$boxstuff = "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"java script: openpopup(\''.$song.\'',\''.$category.\'')\">Listen</a>";
$boxstuff .= "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$song";
$boxstuff .= "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$lexdownload<br>";

Tab

Hi bubblenut...

The forum took the colon and the letter o and inserted a link the smilie on this board, I've fixed it now by puting a space between the colon and the o, just so it displays correctly.......

Any chance you could give us an example of how I should wirte the code correctly to get the code into the variable?

Thanks for your help

Tab

Thanks Chancer, that worked a treat !! 😃