im trying to use the following to pass the value id in a url within a report with now luck

Code:
<td><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.usbdriveguard.com/UpdateTicketFromReport.php?id=<?php echo $id; ?>"<?php echo $id; ?></font></td>
i want the id which is the record number to be the link that sends its value to the UpdateTicketFromReport.php page. i cant seem to get this to work.