this is wrong?

[jasondavis]

$bulletinMessage = getParam('bulletinMessage','Hi! I found an awsome site <a href="http://www.site.com/index.php?action=newmember&friendid=$friendid">www.site.com</a> ! Go take a look!');

Im not sure what is wrong but $friendid won't show up in this but if I echo it anywhere else it shows do I have it wrong?

[alimadzi]

It's because you're using single quotes around the entire string. Change to double quotes and add backslashes () around the href quotes. Should work then.

[NogDog]

Just to clarify: variables are only interpolated within a string literal if it is double-quoted, not if it is single-quoted. Also, since using single quotes for HTML attribute values is perfectly OK, you could simply do the following rather than escaping double-quotes within the double-quoted string literal:

$bulletinMessage = getParam('bulletinMessage',"Hi! I found an awsome site <a 
href='http://www.site.com/index.php?action=newmember&friendid=$friendid'>www.site.com</a>! 
Go take a look!");