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[internetking]

I have built myself a little database to hold info for me but would like to add an active url to the output ...

I have it like this:

<td><center><a href="$reboot"></a></td>

$reboot being the url pulled from the database, I think its the " that is causing the probs as i get this error on the page once i insert the above code:

Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/seedfoxu/public_html/admin/index.php on line 35

Any ideas of help is welcomed

Thanks
Mark

[petteyg359]

Is the URL in the database, or the full <a> element? If it's just the URL, and you're outputting with

echo "<td><center><a href="url"></td>";

then the problem should be quite obvious. See the example code. Also, your page is not going to validate, because you're not closing the <center>.

[bear]

Or it could be as simple as the var not having a ";" after it.
<a href="$reboot"> vs <a href="$reboot;">

But it doesn't have the PHP tags around it, so it's hard to say if that's part of the longer echo or something...

[sbink]

You need to use PHP mode to access PHP variables. Do this in one of three ways, depending on how your code is set up:

<!-- method 1, in HTML -->
<td><center><a href="<?=$reboot;?>"></a></td>

<!-- method 2, in HTML -->
<td><center><a href="<?php echo $reboot; ?>"></a></td>

<?php
// method 3, in PHP 
echo "<td><center><a href=\"$reboot\"></a></td>";
?>