[RESOLVED] Writing hyperlink into html file

kiwibrit

<?php
$url_1="http://www.example.com/sample/index.php";
$anchor_1="Jim's text";
if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
	$anchor_1 = stripslashes( $anchor_1 );
        }

$myFile = "../siteinc/news.html";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = '<a href=\"'.$url_1.'\">'.$anchor_1.'</a>';
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
?>

reusults in this html

<a href="%5C%22http://www.example.com/sample/index.php%5C%22">Jim's text</a>

In practice, $url_1 is a variable that has been posted to the php file.

[php5 in use - though I don't think that affects things here]

How can I get rid of the two lots of %5C%22 that have been inserted into the hyperlink in the final file?

kkobashi

Try this instead:


$url_1 = "category";
$anchor_1 = "click here";
$stringData = "<a href='/" . $url_1 . "/'>" . $anchor_1 . "</a>";

echo $stringData;

kiwibrit

Thank you. That resulted in an unwanted /, but got me digging further.

<?php
$url_1="http://www.example.com/sample/index.php"; 
$anchor_1="Click here";
$myFile = "../siteinc/news.html";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = "<a href=" . $url_1 . ">" . $anchor_1 . "</a>";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
?>

Does it -but this is a Newbies section - and although I have used php for quite a while, I don't write it very much. However I am trying to understand it better. As I thought double quotes to be passed always had to be escaped, can anybody explain why the code for $stringData works? It does seem that php has magically added the extra double quotes where I wanted them.

[edit] Scrub that. double quotes don't come through.

kiwibrit

$stringData = '<a href="' . $url_1 . '">' . $anchor_1 . '</a>';

Does it correctly on the php4 test server I am presently using.