Moving the hyperlink in the code

zonkd

I want to change the hyperlink in the code ... but a hundred variations of jiggling with it won't work.

The link is on the first field, of course. I want to make it the last field - on the simulated arrows, in fact.

Be very grateful if a patient Guru could show me how the code should look ...

printf("<a href=\"%s?id=%s\">
<h4>%s</h4></a>

								%s >>> \n",

		$PHP_SELF,$myrow["id"], 
		$myrow["one"], 
		$myrow["two"],  ....et al

justsomeone

Is there any chance you could rephrase that? I don't understand the question.

zonkd

Hi justsomeone

Click on the field that has the <h4> tags, and the full story (the records) appears.

Instead of that field as the link, I'd like the link to be the ">>>", in the third row.

I can't find a way to do it. Be grateful for guidance.

Cheers

justsomeone

zonkd wrote:

printf("<h4>%s</h4>%s<a href=\"%s?id=%s\"> >>></a> \n",
 $PHP_SELF,$myrow["id"],
$myrow["one"],
$myrow["two"], ....et al

should do it

zonkd

If only, justsomeone, but it doesn't seem to. I tried it in all sorts of variations, but it wouldn't do it.

It can't be that $PHP_SELF variable, I suppose? I was about to try that last night at the end, but then it was getting a bit late to concentrate.

Any further ideas would be appreciated very much. Cheers

justsomeone

The only thing I can think of is that possibly the >>> are confusing the browser. You could replace ">>>" with ">>>"

If that doesn't work, do a view source on the generated html and piece the offending code in here.

zonkd

Thanks, justsomeone, and it does seem that >>> confuses the browser. But giving the character doesn't seem to get round it. Well, I'll get busy with it again at the weekend.

Annoying, I can easily live without it, but it would look good on the page, if only I could find a way to use it. Many thanks for your help. Hope to report back on Monday. (I used to hear Leonard Cohen every day once - a lovely friend was crazy about that Canadian poet/songster.)

justsomeone

Sounds a little surprising. Feel free to contact me off the board on this - I'm somewhat curious about it now.

zonkd

Hi justsomeone

Your char ">>>" was a real help, because that was hindering things.

However, I stumbled onto the answer late on Friday night.

Put that "$PHP_SELF,$myrow["id"], " row in third position, corresponding with the linking row.

So third down is ">>>" which (enclosed in a small box via css) is the link.

So I changed

$PHP_SELF,$myrow["id"],
$myrow["one"],
$myrow["two"], ....et al

$myrow["one"],
$myrow["two"],
$PHP_SELF,$myrow["id"], ....et al

and now it works a treat.

Madness, of course. But as long as it works - and as the world is mad now anyway - one might as well embrace the madness. All the best and many thanks, justsomeone