if?

[uummmhhhh]

am a bit of a n00b with php, and am just wondering if "if" is the right code for what I need.

I want to make button links unclickable when their page (s) are called and was wondering the best way to do it.

I have been trying to make the if tag work for it, and maybe it's just that im doing something wrong, but, it won't.

here are the 2 states I want:

active:

<a href="index.php"><img src="index.jpg"/></a>

inactive:

<img src="index.jpg"/>

I was trying to simply use this, but it won't work for me:

if ($page == "index") 
{
echo "<img src="index.jpg"/>";
} 
else {
echo "<a href="index.php"><img src="index.jpg"/></a>";
}

Can anyone help please?

Thanks.

[etully]

The easy part to fix is the echo statements. You either need to escape the quotes like this:
echo "<img src=\"index.jpg\"/>";
Or (preferably) use single quotes for the echo statement itself like this:
echo '<img src="index.jpg"/>';

That might be all you need. (Which means you were pretty close).

Since we don't know how or where you are assigning a value to the $page variable, we have no idea whether it's really going to be equal to "index" or not. So if fixing the quotes in the echo command doesn't completely fix the problem, the next place to look is to see what $page is set to.

[uummmhhhh]

well, I was plain and simply getting errors from my code, which as I can see now, was wrong, I'm hoping this will work, if not, I'll follow up if thats ok?

thanks a lot for your help, its much appricated.