embiding a link in a variable

[Tara83]

i'm working on a project where i need to embed an html link in a variable


$link = "<a href=\"update.p hp?id='.$row['id'].\'">Update</a>";


and i keep getting this:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_ WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING on line 88
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on the other hand i tried to test it as an echo

echo '<a href="update.ph p?id='.$row['id'].'">Update</a>'; <<<< works

any idea what is the right syntax


hope some one can help

[Motoma]

The difference between the echo statement and the $link statement is the type of quotes you use: in the $link version, you start off with double-quotes, but try to escape them (for the row id) with single quotes.

i'm working on a project where i need to embed an html link in a variable

$link = "<a href=\"update.p hp?id='.$row['id'].\'">Update</a>";

and i keep getting this:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_ WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING on line 88
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

on the other hand i tried to test it as an echo

echo '<a href="update.ph p?id='.$row['id'].'">Update</a>'; <<<< works

any idea what is the right syntax

hope some one can help

[Tara83]

any idea how?

i tried $linko = "<a href=\"update.p hp?id='.$row[\'id\'].'\">Update</a>";

but didnt work

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[PHP]$linko = '<a href="update.ph p?id='.$row['id'].'">Update</a>';[/PHP]but