[RESOLVED] How do I escape this URL to I can passit as a variable??

dmacman1962

Hi All,

I have a page that gets the productID and then displays the correct path and concatenates the prodid to the end. The challenge is that one of the links needs to go to a different path.

So I made a if else loop to change the path for the special product. The challenge is that I can't seem to escape the href correctly.

Here is what I have in the code now:

<a href="http://www.intheclassroom.com/cgi-bin/storefront.cgi?page=prod&prod=<?php echo($row['ProdID']); ?> target="_blank">

and what I am trying to do is:

$RegularURL = '<a href=\"http://www.intheclassroom.com/cgi-bin/storefront.cgi?page=prod&prod=<?php echo($row['ProdID']); ?> target=\"_blank\">' ;
$SpecialURL = '<a href=\"http://www.intheclassroom.com/cgi-bin/storefront.cgi" target=\"_blank\">' ;

Then I can just :

if ($row['ProdID'] = 0) {
$URL = $SpecialURL ;
} else {
$URL = $RegularURL ;
}

and then echo $URL in the loop for the products.

Is that clear or confusing??

Thanks,

Don

infolock

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infolock

While you are looping through your result, I would just check right in it. So your URL variable would look like this :

 $URL = '<a href="http://www.intheclassroom.com/cgi-bin/storefront.cgi'.($row['ProdID'] = 0 ? '' : '?page=prod&prod='.$row['ProdID']).'> target="_blank">';

which will validate and populate the URL exactly how you are wanting it to be done..

dmacman1962

Thanks, Infolock, that gets me close, but I must be missing something, here is what I get, notice the "target=" in the url when you mouseover the links.

Test Page with your code.

Also, not that when you point at the yellow fleece jacket at the bottom (this is the product with ID=0, so I am trying to display the URL as 'http://www.intheclassroom.com/cgi-bin/storefront.cgi" not concatenate the page=prod&prod=[ID].

Hopefully this can be resolved.

Thanks,

Don

infolock

opps that was just a mistake on my part.

 $URL = '<a href="http://www.intheclassroom.com/cgi-bin/storefront.cgi'.($row['ProdID'] = 0 ? '?' : '?page=prod&prod='.$row['ProdID'].'&').' target="_blank">';

that should fix the minor typo i had.

anyways, if you are meaning you want to hide that data from displaying in the url itself(either by redirect or if you onmouseover), you can't unless you put an onmouseover javascript function in that href tag. only other method is to throw it into a POST, hidden div tag, hidden input type, or store it into a session, or something else along those lines.

dmacman1962

Thats not fixing the 2 issues.

1) it is adding the target= to the url, instead of parsing it as HTML.

2) it keeps the page=prod&prod=(the ID number) for the last product, which is the one that shouldn't. The URL stops with "storefront.cgi"

I don't understand the code that evaulates if prodid = 0, so I cannot get it to work.

Thanks,

Don

bpat1434

 $URL = '<a href="http://www.intheclassroom.com/cgi-bin/storefront.cgi'.($row['ProdID'] = 0 ? '?' : '?page=prod&prod='.$row['ProdID'].'&').' target="_blank">';

Should be:

 $URL = 'http://www.intheclassroom.com/cgi-bin/storefront.cgi'.($row['ProdID'] == 0)? '?' : '?page=prod&prod='.$row['ProdID'].'&';

Then, wherever you need to use the "$URL" variable, use it in this fashion:

echo '<a href="'.$URL.'" target="_blank">Some Link text</a>';

~Brett

dmacman1962

Thanks bpat1434, but I am messing this up somehow.

Here is my use of the above code.

<?PHP
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
		$ManID = $row['ManufacturerID']; 

 $URL = 'http://www.intheclassroom.com/cgi-bin/storefront.cgi'.($row['ProdID'] == 0)? '?' : '?page=prod&prod='.$row['ProdID'].'&'; 
 ?>


//Then the images that have the dynamic URLS

<div align="center"><?PHP echo '<a href="'.$URL.'" target="_blank">' ; ?><img src="../images/<?php echo($row['Image']); ?>" alt="<?PHP echo($row['Alt']); ?>" title="<?PHP echo($row['Title']); ?>" width="100" height="100" border="0"></a></div>

This is just giving me a "?" where the links for the URL should be.

Thanks for the patience,

Don

bpat1434

?PHP
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
		$ManID = $row['ManufacturerID']; 

// Set the base of the URL path:	
$URL = 'http://www.intheclassroom.com/cgi-bin/storefront.cgi';

// Append the suffix of the URL:
$URL .= ($row['ProdID'] == 0)? '?' : '?page=prod&prod='.$row['ProdID'].'&'; 
// ( [COMPARATIVE EQUATION] ) ? ( EQUATES TO TRUE ) : ( EQUATES TO FALSE )
 ?>


//Then the images that have the dynamic URLS
<div align="center"><?PHP echo '<a href="'.$URL.'" target="_blank">' ; ?><img src="../images/<?php echo($row['Image']); ?>" alt="<?PHP echo($row['Alt']); ?>" title="<?PHP echo($row['Title']); ?>" width="100" height="100" border="0"></a></div>

That should work for you....

~Brett

dmacman1962

BINGO!

I did make 2 little changes to your code.

I changed...

$URL .= ($row['ProdID'] == 0)? '?' : '?page=prod&prod='.$row['ProdID'].'&';

$URL .= ($row['ProdID'] == 0)? '' : '?page=prod&prod='.$row['ProdID'].'';

since if it was the ProdID = 0 I got an extra "?" at the end of the URL and if it was any of the other products, I got a "&" at the end of the URL.

Thanks a bunch,

This one is going into my library of code.

Like my name says, "//Addicted to

 !"

Don