How do I get this to show as a link?

[crh1972]

I have this login page, but I want either the logged in person to go directly to the page, or to allow a link to have the user click to go to the page.

How do I get a link to show up here that will allow the user to click on it to get to the website? Just after it says "Logout", I want it to say on a new line "You are now allowed to go to: www.blah.com" But I want www.blah.com to be a link directly to the blah.com site. Currently it just displays plain text. Keep in mind that blah.com is not the real website..just an example.

Start of code (snippet)--------------------------

}

/**
Determines whether or not to display the login
form or to show the user that he is logged in
based on if the session variables are set.
/
function displayLogin(){
global $logged_in;
if($logged_in){
echo "<h1>Logged In!</h1>";
echo "Welcome <b>$_SESSION[username]</b>, you are logged in. <a href=\"logout.php\">Logout</a>";
echo "<br>You are now allowed to go to: www.blah.com";
}

End of code (snippet)--------------------

[bastien]

echo "<br>You are now allowed to go to: <a href="www.blah.com">www.blah.com</a>";

[onion2k]

Originally posted by bastien
echo "<br>You are now allowed to go to: <a href="www.blah.com">www.blah.com</a>";

Its a seperate website, so you'll need to have the 'http://' bit at the start of the link.

<a href="http://www.blah.com">www.blah.com</a>

Otherwise the link will go to something like http://www.domain.com/www.blah.com

[crh1972]

Thanks for the quick replies
I made the changes (see below), but now I get the following error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\web\login.php on line 80

}

/**
Determines whether or not to display the login
form or to show the user that he is logged in
based on if the session variables are set.
/
function displayLogin(){
global $logged_in;
if($logged_in){
echo "<h1>Logged In!</h1>";
echo "Welcome <b>$_SESSION[username]</b>, you are logged in. <a href=\"logout.php\">Logout</a>";
echo "<br>You are now allowed to go to: <a href="http://www.blah.com">www.blah.com</a>";
}

[onion2k]

Originally posted by crh1972
echo "<br>You are now allowed to go to: <a href="http://www.blah.com">www.blah.com</a>";

Yout need to backslash your quotes in the link..

<a href=\"http://www.blah.com\">www.blah.com</a>

[crh1972]

Thanks for your help...Im new..so you'll see me on here a lot.

[zapa]

try useing a function if you use more then 1 url easy way to code.

<?php

function urlMake($name, $urllink){
echo '<A HREF="'.$urllink.'">'.$name.'</A>';
}

urlMake('php Builder','http://www.phpbuilder.com');
?>

out put will be <A HREF="http://www.phpbuilder.com">php Builder</A>

or you can use

urlMake('text dispaly on screen', '/link.php');
urlMake('text dispaly on screen', './../link.php'); etc..

[onion2k]

Nice idea, but that doesn't offer much flexibity for onClick, style, target, and both the parameters of the function are required.

Even a small addition like...

function urlMake($urllink,$name=""){
echo "<A HREF=\"".$urllink."\">".(($name!="")?$name:$urllink)."</A>";
}

...would make it more useful.