[RESOLVED] problems building a url string

bdee1

i am having some trouble buildign links that have url variables.

i am trying to build a link that looks like this:

<a href="deleteItem.php?id=7">X</a>

i am using the following code:

echo("<a href='deleteItem.php?id=".$id."'>X</a>")

but the browser renders the link as:

<a href='deleteItem~id~4.php'>X</a>

what am i doing wrong??

HalfaBee

I can't explain why it is doing that.
You could try using

printf( "<a href='deleteItem.php?id=%d'>X</a>" , $id );

bdee1

that gives me the same result... thats so weird.

HalfaBee

Does

echo("<a href='deleteItem.php?id=4'>X</a>")

or even
echo("href='deleteItem.php?id=4" );

give the same result?

nrg_alpha

$id = 7;
echo '<a href="deleteItem.php?id=' . $id . '">X</a>';

Note: For echo, you don't need the parenthesis.

bdee1

HalfaBee;10899413 wrote:
Does

echo("<a href='deleteItem.php?id=4'>X</a>")

or even
echo("href='deleteItem.php?id=4" );

give the same result?

yea they both give the same result.

HalfaBee

Some part of the script must be changing it.

Does the same thing happen on a simple php script outputting the url?

bdee1

yes the same result from any page i put it in.

whats weird is that if i take out the ?id= portion it work fine (i.e. <a href="deleteItem.php">). but as soon as i add the ? in there it screws up.

Weedpacket

What browsers have you tried this in? Does it do the same thing in others? Is it all links (with or without a query-string part) on all pages, or just that one?

bdee1

Yes it does it in all browsers but only on links with a query string. Take a look for yourself... Http://Www.Blairdee.info/php

bdee1

ok so here's something interesting... i emailed the two files (index.php and file.xml) to my buddy who is running WAMP on his local machine and when he viewed my files, it worked fine. so it HAS to be some kind of setting in php on my server... but what could it be??

bdee1

ok problem solved... turns out i had an old IIS plugin called LinkFreeze which was some kind of url renaming tool. i uninstalled it and its fixed.

laserlight

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