correct way to write this

[stickman373]

Not sure exactly how to write this correctly.

I have some text and the link for it should be as follows:

href="$_REQUEST['cats'] & view.php? & echo $record['id']"

now obviously I can't use & to seperate the pieces but how would I write this correctly?

the "view.php?" is just regular text

thanks

[chrisjk]

. is the concatenation character

e.g

$greeting = 'Hello ' . $name;

[stickman373]

i tried something like this:

<p align="center"><b><a href="<?php $_REQUEST['cats'] . 'view.php?' . echo $record['id']?>"><BR><?php echo $record['title']; ?></a></b></p>

and i get an error

it should take what i posted "cats" and then add the text view.php? and then the releated id that i am pulling from a query and it makes the url. The link should be the title.

any ideas what is wrong?

[Gimlin]

I like to use Print unless it is really long.

<?php

print("<p align=\"center\"><b><a href=\"$_REQUEST['cats'] view.php?$record['id']?\"><BR>$record['title']</a></b></p>");

?>

[chrisjk]

Originally posted by stickman373

any ideas what is wrong?

you're not printing the result. Try this:

<p align="center"><b><a href="<?php print $_REQUEST['cats'] . 'view.php?' . $record['id'];?>"><BR><?php print 'Title: ' . $record['title']; ?></a></b></p>

[da_silvy]

or:

echo "<a href=\"".$_REQUEST['cats'].'view.php?".$record['id']."\">Text</a>"; 

Should work too..

[mralston]

Or

href="<?=$_REQUEST["cats"] . "view.php?". $record["id"] ?>"

or even

href="<?=$_REQUEST["cats"] ?>view.php?<?=$record["id"] ?>"

[da_silvy]

you don't need to "echo" it?

[mralston]

Nah. You can do it like <%= %> in ASP (but obviously with question marks instead of percent signs).

You need to have short_open_tag = On defined in php.ini. It's also possible that they have disabled that functionality in later versions of PHP - I'm using 4.0.6 because I don't have access to upgrade our live servers and I'd like to keep the development server in sync with the live one.

[da_silvy]

but u need an = sign?

[mralston]

In this case

<?=literal ?>

can be used in place of

<? print(literal) ?>

like

<%=literal %>

can be used in place of

<% response.write literal %>

in ASP.