Making an HTML link from PHP and MySQL

[Anon]

I was looking at some code for sellecting records from a database I was wondering, being new at PHP and MySQL if this is the way you would selected from the database is made into an html link.

I'm not sure how to get the double quotes (") to print.

if ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

do {
print ("<a href=/"");
print $row["first_name"];
print (".htm/" > ");
print $row["first_name"];
print " </a>"

} while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result));

} else {print "Sorry, no records were found!";}

What I'm trying to get printed it something like this:

<a href="Jason.htm"> Jason </a>

where "Jason" would be taken from the database.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

[Anon]

if ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

do {
printf('<a href="%s.htm">%s</a>', $row["first_name"], $row["first_name"]);

} while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result));

} else {print "Sorry, no records were found!";}

[Anon]

That is the %s in the link?

(I'm really new at this...just a few days actuall.)

Thanks for your help.
Jaymz

[Anon]

check the documentation on printf, the %s is just a plcaeholder for whatever arguments you supply at the end notice how there are two %s in the statement and two variaboles at the end.

[Anon]

Cool...thanks so much for your help.