[RESOLVED] Including PHP variable in <a href> -- please help!

Feabionsu

Hi there,

I am trying to have a PHP variable in my link, so that my final link would look like this:

http://www.example.com/eformat/variable-goes-here.rtf

I've managed to get http://www.example.com/variable-goes-here using the code below, but I can't seem to insert the "eformat/" and ".rtf" parts. I really don't know PHP very well, so help would be greatly appreciated. Please excuse my beginner level. Thank you!

<?php $eformat = $post–>post_name; echo "<a href=\"$eformat\">Download this blog post in eFormat (.rtf)</a>" ?>

I implemented this code as well but it only gave me http://www.example.com/eformat/.rtf. I'm not sure why it refuses to recognize the variable $eformat, since the previous code above makes it work... any ideas?

<?php $eformat = $post–>post_name; echo "<a href='eformat/{$eformat}.rtf'>Link</a>" ?>

ZibingsCoder

Have you tried just doing:

<?php echo "<a href='eformat/{$post->post_name}.rtf'>Link</a>" ?>

Feabionsu

Oh my God, it works! Genius! Thank you Zibings! 😃

ZibingsCoder

Glad that helped.

Feabionsu

Someone on another forum also brought along a solution, so I thought I'd post it here for reference in case someone else has this question:

<?php $var = $post->post_name; echo '<a href="eformat/' . $var . '.rtf">Link</a>'; ?>

Amazing to see two solutions after hours of trying to figure out even one solution by myself. Thanks again!

dagon

Those are not 2 solutions, but one; the 2nd assigns $post->post_name to a new var, for no good reason. Sorry to be picky.:evilgrin:

bradgrafelman

If that counts as a "second" solution, then I should get the grand prize of coming up with an infinite number of solutions, e.g.:

echo "<a href='eformat/{$post->post_name}.rtf'>Link</a>";

echo "<a href='eformat/" . $post->post_name . ".rtf'>Link</a>";

$foo = $post->post_name;
echo "<a href='eformat/" . $foo . ".rtf'>Link</a>";

(repeat third code snippet for all possible variable names other than 'foo')

Feabionsu

Hahaha, good point everyone. =D I was going to use the "real" solution anyway since it looked shorter.