Strange issue

[Pioden]

I'm really not sure how to describe this problem - hence the rather unhelpful title!

 

OK in order to make life easier for designers etc. I wanted all my HTML etc. available in one file - which includes some embedded PHP. In the presentation file i have the line

 

$main_link_display = "<a href=\"index.php?p=$page_uid\">$title</a><br />$subgroup";

 

in the other file (linked by an 'include') where the code is required I have

 

$navigation .= $main_link_display;

 

As you might guess I doesn't work. Instead of the expected HTML and PHP output I get

<a href="index.php?p="></a><br />

 

What am I doing wrong? I have my head on the wrong way round today :-(

[BlueSkyIS]

are you using PHP in a file with a .html extension? if so, you'll either need to change the name of the file to a .php extension OR modify your web server settings to parse .html files as PHP.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

$page_uid and $title must be defined at the time the $main_link_display = "...." statement is executed.

 

If $main_link_display = "...." is more like a "template", then you should use "place holder tags" in it and use the str_replace() function to insert the actual values. Place holder tags are anything you want, but {tagname} is typically used.

[Pioden]

Thanks PFMaBiSmAd (can I call you PFMaBiSmAd?) - that sounds like what's going wrong. I've never used place holder tags - can you give me an example of usage?