Displaying hyperlink in a php table problem

Catling

Hi,

I am trying to place two hyperlinks as table data(HIGHLIGHTED) in my php table with my while loop. I keep getting the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'

Here is my code:

while($row = MySQL_fetch_array($result))
{

echo "<td>{$row['forename']} {$row['surname']}</td>";
echo "<td>{$row['studentno']}</td>";
echo "<td>{$row['projecttitle']}</td>";
echo "<td><a href="">Mark/Edit</a><ahref="">View</a></td>";

	} 

	echo "</table>";
	"</center>";
              }

Can you suggest anything?

Any help would be much appreciated

dagon

echo '<td><a href="">Mark/Edit</a><a href="">View</a></td>';

its a quote issue

bradgrafelman

The table isn't a "PHP table" - it's simply HTML code.

As dagon points out, the problem was that your string contained quotes that weren't properly escaped. For more information on how to construct a string, see this manual page: [man]string[/man].

nuttynibbles

yes it is a quote issue as pointed out.

if you want to continue using double quote you can use the backslashe like this:

echo "<td><a href=\"\">Mark/Edit</a><a href=\"\">View</a></td>";

Catling

Thanks guys that worked perfectly.

Im now having trouble with my table output. The table prints the 1st record from my table and then the second one right next to it. For example:

forename1 projectno1 projecttitle1 forename2 projectno2 projecttitle2

I want the two records to be on seperate lines like so:

forename1 projectno1 projecttitle1
forename2 projectno2 projecttitle2

Im guessing its something to do with the highlighted line

My code looks like this:

echo "<tr><td>Student Name</td><td>Student No</td><td>Project Title</td><td>Specifications</td><td>Designs</td><td>Demonstrations</td><td>Reports</td></tr>";
while($row = MySQL_fetch_array($result))
{

echo "<td>{$row['forename']} {$row['surname']}</td>";
echo "<td>{$row['studentno']}</td>";
echo "<td>{$row['projecttitle']}</td>";
echo '<td><a href="">Mark/Edit</a> <a href="">View</a></td>';

echo '<td><a href="">Mark/Edit</a> <a href="">View</a></td>';

echo '<td><a href="">Mark/Edit</a> <a href="">View</a></td>';

echo '<td><a href="">Mark/Edit</a> <a href="">View</a></td>';

Do I need a <br> at the end ?

dagon

Catling;10902618 wrote:
Do I need a <br> at the end ?

no, you need <tr>'s

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