[RESOLVED] escaping html in php

dcjones

Hi All,

I am rtying to make a variable have a url link attached to it. the part of the code I ned to have the link is:

print ("<td class=\"bodytext\">VIEW</td>");

but how do I code the VEW to link to another page like:

I hope this makes sense.

$count =0;
while ($row_sort_date = mysql_fetch_assoc($sort_date)) {
$variable1=$row_sort_date['member_id'];
$variable2=$row_sort_date['f_owners_name'];
$variable3=$row_sort_date['f_owners_contact'];
$variable4=$row_sort_date['f_person'];
$variable5=$row_sort_date['f_date'];
$variable6=$row_sort_date['f_location'];
if(++$count % 2)
print("<tr class=\"even\">");
else
print("<tr class=\"odd\">");
print ("<td width=\"100\">$variable1</td>");
print ("<td width=\"135\">$variable2</td>");
print ("<td width=\"102\">$variable3</td>");
print ("<td width=\"131\">$variable4</td>");
print ("<td width=\"91\">$variable5</td>");
print ("<td>$variable6</td>");
print ("<td class=\"bodytext\">VIEW</td>");
print ("<td class=\"bodytext\">FILTER</td>");

</tr>

 while ($row_sort_date = mysql_fetch_assoc($sort_date));

laserlight

but how do I code the VEW to link to another page like:

<td class="bodytext"><a href="../sales/index.php" target="_self">VIEW</a></td>

What do you mean by that? It looks like you can just use that line (with double quotes escaped, of course).

dcjones

Hi, Laserlight,

Thanks for your reply.

This is what I have which gives an error:

print ("<td class=\"bodytext\"><a href=\"table_test_filter.php?member_id=<?php echo $row_sort_date['member_id']; ?>\" target=\"_self\">VIEW</a></td>");

ERROR:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /homepages/41/d43000764/htdocs/baggagepin/baggage/agents/table_test.php on line 173

Have I got the quotes in the correct place and the escape \"

Many thanks for your help

NogDog

It looks like you have a set of <?php ... ?> tags within a PHP print statement? If, so, that's the problem.

print ("<td class=\"bodytext\"><a 
href=\"table_test_filter.php?member_id={$row_sort_date['member_id']}\" 
target=\"_self\">VIEW</a></td>");

// ...or...
print ("<td class=\"bodytext\"><a href=\"table_test_filter.php?member_id=" .
$row_sort_date['member_id'] . "\" target=\"_self\">VIEW</a></td>");

// ...or... (note the user of printf instead of print:
printf ("<td class=\"bodytext\"><a 
href=\"table_test_filter.php?member_id=%d\" target=\"_self\">VIEW</a></td>",
$row_sort_date['member_id']);

dcjones

Hi and thanks Laserlight and Nogdog

Problem solved.

Many thanks