Hyperlink in PHP Form

[rosschapman]

How do I make he included address into a hyperlink? Putting <a href round it screws the php.

I currently have:



$copy_intro[0]="Thanks for your inquiry, please download our PDF from the following link:<br /><br />http://www.domain.co.uk/download.pdf";


thanks in advance,

[chaos]

Putting <a href round it screws the php.

Screws it how? I don't think there is any other way than to use the anchor tag. The real trick with PHP is remembering that you have to be careful with the quotation marks. Use the single quotations, or use escape \'s. Is this what you're asking?

http://www.hostingfanatic.com/webdev/php/101/faq/quotes-in-string.html

Something like:

echo "<a href='$url'>$url</a>";

I didn't check the code itself, but something like that should work...

[rosschapman]

Like this?

$copy_subject[0]="PDF Download";
$copy_intro[0]="Thanks for your inquiry, please download our PDF from the following link:<br /><br />
echo "<a href='http://www.domain.co.uk/download.pdf'>http://www.domain.co.uk/download.pdf</a>";
$copy_from[0]="email@address.com";

That gives me a Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in ....

[chaos]

Sorry, I must not have been very clear :oops: "Echo" is a PHP command used for printing to screen. I was merely using it as an example, but I forgot to say what that example would do :-)

The following is correct:

<?PHP

//This is what you're concerned with right here :-)
$copy_subject[0]="PDF Download";
$copy_intro[0]="Thanks for your inquiry, please download our PDF from the following link:<br /><br /><a href='http://www.domain.co.uk/download.pdf'>http://www.domain.co.uk/download.pdf</a>";
$copy_from[0]="email@address.com";

//The following code is merely to demonstrate what exactly has been stored and how. This simply takes all the variables and sends them via HTTP to the browser. I added a few "<br/>" to pretty up the output :)

echo $copy_subject[0];
echo "<br />";
echo $copy_intro[0];
echo "<br />";
echo $copy_from[0];

?>

This code will return the following:
http://w3wizardry.com/projects/new.php


Edit:
I presume this is for a premade Form mailer script? Hence the variable names like:
"copy_intro[0]"

[rosschapman]

Fantastic - it's alive!

Thanks for your help Chaos!

[chaos]

Yay! I'm glad that worked.

By the way... I was looking at your portfolio site, and I must say that you've got some fine work in there :) Nice job.

[deathshadow]

I would suggest inverting those quotes for consistancy - AND execution speed. Single quotes in php (and most other languages) mean don't parse for escape codes and vars, while double quotes mean parse. Parsing takes extra time and shouldn't be set up to use unless you need it.

So, unless you need to inline declare a variable (there's no reason to do that since you can just close commma comma open) or use escape codes like /n or /t - there's no reason to use double quotes... AND it means your HTML looks more 'standard'.

Based on your example, I'd be using this:

$copy_intro[0]='
Thanks for your inquiry, please download our PDF from the
following link:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.domain.co.uk/download.pdf">download.pdf</a>
';

[chaos]

That's pretty cool! Thanks for the tip. I honestly never thought about using a single quotation mark at the beginning...

<<goes to change my various other PHP projects>>