Comments on: Echo a variable in PHP which displays as a link http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/echo-a-variable-in-php-which-displays-as-a-link/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:39:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: yuvalshavit http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/echo-a-variable-in-php-which-displays-as-a-link/#comment-54283 yuvalshavit Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:42:18 +0000 #comment-54283 The code seems okay to me. Are you sure $url has a value? PHP doesn’t require you to pre-declare all values, so if you mistyped $url when you assigned it a value, it could be uninitialized (and thus default to an empty string) here. It could also be a scoping issue; if $url is a global value, remember to declare “global $url” in the function. And if you’re getting the value from a database query, make sure the query is correctly returning a value; if it doesn’t, $row['url'] (or whatever it is) will not be set and will thus default to an empty string. You can test this by doing something like: 
$url=isset($row['url'])? '['.$row['url'].']' : "[UNDEFINED_URL]";

Does it output something like this?

<p>Name Genre Bio <a href=''> Profile</a>

If so, I’d check to make sure you’re correctly assigning $url a value. Otherwise, I’ve run out of ideas, sorry. HTH!

]]> By: whiteyoh http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/echo-a-variable-in-php-which-displays-as-a-link/#comment-54279 whiteyoh Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:55:09 +0000 #comment-54279 it outputs $djname $genre and $biography fine, but i want a link to be displayed that takes you to their profile. the url ($url)is stored in the table

]]> By: yuvalshavit http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/echo-a-variable-in-php-which-displays-as-a-link/#comment-54278 yuvalshavit Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:49:09 +0000 #comment-54278 What does it output now?

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