[RESOLVED] Unable to make URL work?

elricstorm

Here's what I"m using:

$url = "<a href=\"http://" . $link . "/sheet.xml?" . $info[$i]['url'] . ">";
echo "<TD ALIGN = \"center\">" . $url . $name . "</a></TD>";

I end up getting:

http://www.link.com/sheet.xml?r=special+search+name</a></td>=

as the link.

Any reason this is happening?

$name is the variable for r=special+search+name

Piranha

You miss a " to end the string. I don't know where to place it since I don't understand exactly what you get and what you want.

NogDog

I often find it easier to maintain my sanity (what little is left, anyway) by doing something like the following instead of jumping in and out of quotes, concatenating variables, etc., and then losing track of what goes where.

$html = '<td align="center"><a href="http://%s/sheet.xml?%s">%s</a></td>';
printf($html, $link, $info[$i]['url'], $name);

contrasites

You didn't close your html href with another double quote....(\")

Try this:

$url = "<a href=\"http://" . $link . "/sheet.xml?" . $info[$i]['url'] . "\">"; 
echo "<TD ALIGN = \"center\">" . $url . $name . "</a></TD>";

elricstorm

Thanks guys.

Sometimes I get lost in the quotes when mixing html and php. I didn't realize I forgot to close the href there. Appreciate the help.

elricstorm

NogDog wrote:
I often find it easier to maintain my sanity (what little is left, anyway) by doing something like the following instead of jumping in and out of quotes, concatenating variables, etc., and then losing track of what goes where.
$html = '<td align="center"><a href="http://%s/sheet.xml?%s">%s</a></td>';
printf($html, $link, $info[$i]['url'], $name);

Yeah, and in fact, that's exactly what happened to me. I'll look over the code you posted and see if I can make my life a little easier.

elricstorm

Rather than using the printf function, is there another function that works similar that allows me to store this into a variable?

For instance:

$variable=(somefunction($html, $link, $info[$i]['url'], $name));

the printf is useful for printing out html information but there are instances in which I will need to utilize html and store it into an data array for parsing.

elricstorm

I found out what I needed. I used the sprintf function and it works beautifully for storing variables.