Passing Variables Around

holoiii

I'm not sure if this is a common question or not (I'm fairly new to PHP and HTML in general) but this has plagued me for the past couple of days. Basically, all I want to do is use PHP to manipulate a string and make the string show up as a link on a page.

This is the code for the string manipulation:

<?php
$url   = "{$test}";
$test2   = "?test2={$test2}";
$finishedurl = $url . $test2;
?>

I want to insert $finishedurl from the above into this html code:

<a href="{$finishedurl}" class="blueoff">Finished URL!</a>

I tried a few things, all of which do not work, here's an example:

<?php
$url   = "{$test}";
$test2   = "?test2={$test2}";
$finishedurl = $url . $test2;
<a href="{$finishedurl}" class="blueoff">Finished URL!</a>
?>

I also read somewhere that adding echo ""; before html commands should make them work, but after some testing it didn't work.

I've nearly given up on this.. it seems so simple yet I can't seem to make it work. Any takers?

Huuggee

you are there nearly, you just don't need the braces {} around your variables. and you need to echo your output to the browser
Braces are used to encompass function declarations and encompass conditionals, such as if..else and do...while statements

this should work for you, as long as you have vaues for test, test2

<?php
$url   = $test;
$test2   = "?test2=$test2";
$finishedurl = $url . $test2;

echo "<a href=\"$finishedurl\" class=\"blueoff\">Finished URL!</a>";

// although you could just do:
?>
<a href="<?php echo $url . '?test2=' . $test2; ?>">Finished URL</a>

Canacas

Originally posted by Huuggee

<?php
$url   = $test;
$test2   = "?test2=$test2";
$finishedurl = $url . $test2;

echo "<a href=\"$finishedurl\" class=\"blueoff\">Finished URL!</a>";

// although you could just do:
?>
<a href="<?php echo $url . '?test2=' . $test2; ?>">Finished URL</a>

You can also do it like this.. (insted of using \ infront of the ")

<?php
$url   = $test;
$test2   = "?test2=$test2";
$finishedurl = $url . $test2;

echo "<a href='$finishedurl' class='blueoff'>Finished URL!</a>";

// although you could just do:
?>
<a href="<?php echo $url . '?test2=' . $test2; ?>">Finished URL</a>

This will make " " declare the start and end of your php echo function. And ' ' to declare start stop inside your html snippet.

This works so the transelator dont mix upp the start stop's so they are sepperated =)

Huuggee

Canacas:
the problem with that is that it then becomes invalid html

yes it works, and most browsers interpret it properly, but it's not coherring to standards, which in my book makes it wrong.