beginning delimiter problem, I think

watercrazed

hi, I am trying to get a link to a page display using

echo '<li><a href="<?php ("the_permalink()")?>/">/"<?php echo "<the_title()" ?>/"</a></li>';

the context is I am trying to display an author's page in wordpress list their posts sorted by category. It is sorting and selecting the articles but calling and displaying the permalink is not working.

I played around with the delimiters with a little success but it is still not working

<?php  if ($category->cat_name == $cat_name)  {
// echo 'got the right post'; 
// -- gets the path to ../author
// insert for author page insert for permalink.txt for the full thing

echo '<li>';
echo '<a href= <?php ("the_permalink()")?> >';
echo 'test</a></li>';  //just subsituted plain text to try and get the first section working  it displays [U]>test[/U]

 }

else { echo ' not true '; }
 ?> 

			<?php endwhile;
			echo '</ul>';

to view the page http://www.rradvice.com/author/admin

NogDog

Well, you don't want to go into PHP mode (via <?php tags) when you're already in PHP mode. You can either concatenate the function output into your echo:

echo '<p><a href="' . your_function() . '">Link text</a></p>';

...or exit PHP mode for the plain HTML then go back in to echo your function output:

<?php
// some PHP code
?>
<p>Some plain old HTML.</p>
<p><a href="<?php echo some_function(); ?>">link text</a></p>
<?php
//some more PHP code
?>

Or one of any of a dozen or so variations on those themes.

watercrazed

I was able to get it to work.

I could not figure out how to concatenate the function output into echo:

and ended up using a continue statement to skip the permalink and title output.

				//The Loop
				while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ;?>



 <?php  if ($category->cat_name != $cat_name) {
        continue;}
?>
<!-- Display the Title as a link to the Post's permalink. -->
<p><li> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li></p>

			<?php endwhile;
			echo '</ul>';

jay6390

If what NogDog said didn't work, you might want to look at setup_postdata() in the WP codex