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Escaping Quotes in a URL

Thread began 9/03/2009 7:02 pm by Travis250923 | Last modified 9/08/2009 7:47 am by Travis250923 | 2833 views | 5 replies |

Travis250923

Escaping Quotes in a URL

So there has got to be a better way to get this to work. Here is what is working:

<?php
$url = $row_rsComments[url];
if(empty($url)){
echo $row_rsComments['name'];
}
else {
echo "<a href=\"";
echo $row_rsComments['url'];
echo "\">";
echo $row_rsComments['name'];
echo "</a>"; }
?>

However if I attempt to put the url into one echo statement it doesn't seem to work:

<?php
$url = $row_rsComments[url];
if(empty($url)){
echo $row_rsComments['name'];
}
else {
echo "<a href=\"$row_rsComments['url']\">$row_rsComments['name']</a>";
}
?>

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anonymous

Travis,

Your best bet is to clean up the code a bit and close and re-open the PHP tag in this method:

php:
<?php

$url 
$row_rsComments[url];
if(empty(
$url)){
echo 
$row_rsComments['name'];
}
else { 
?>
<a href="<?php echo $row_rsComments['url']; ?>">
<?php echo $row_rsComments['name']; ?></a>     
 
<?php ?>



Notice how after your else bracelet, I close the PHP to revert back to normal HTML allowing me just to sink PHP echos commands where needed without using escaping slashes... then just simply reopen the PHP tag at the end to clear the bracelet from the original command.

Cheers,

Brian

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Dave BuchholzBeta Tester

Travis,

you need to concatenate your recordset value like so to string it together

php:
<?php

$url 
$row_rsComments[url];
if(empty(
$url)){
echo 
$row_rsComments['name'];
}
else {
echo 
'<a href="$row_rsComments['url']">' $row_rsComments['name'] . '</a>';
}
?>



Note that I use a single quote (') so that I do not have to escape the double quotes in this instance.

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Travis250923

Dave,

Using your code gives me this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\Apache2\htdocs\ecochic\mommatalk_detail.php on line 376

This echo statement is line 376:

echo '<a href="$row_rsComments['url']">' . $row_rsComments['name'] . '</a>';

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Dave BuchholzBeta Tester

Travis,

my apologies, change the echo statement to read

php:
echo '<a href="'.$row_rsComments['url'].'">' . $row_rsComments['name'] . '</a>';



my fault for typing code and then not proof reading it properly !

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Travis250923

That did it thanks.

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