[SOLVED] Nested PHP issue

[garfee]

I have a php string that I want to display if a user has logged in to my website. I cannot get it to work however. I think it is because I have php embedded within php tags. The code is below. Does anyone know how I could re arrange this to get it to work? Many thanks.

 

<?

 

if($logged_in){

  echo '<a href="tex.php?id=<?PHP echo $rows['id'] ?>"><?PHP echo $rows['title']." - <i>".$rows['author']."</i>" ?></a>';

}else{

  echo '<p class="logintext"><a href="main.php">Login / Register</a></p>';

 

?>

[premiso]

if($logged_in){
   echo '<a href="tex.php?id=' . $rows['id'] . '">' . $rows['title'] . ' - <i>'.$rows['author'].'</i></a>';
}else{
   echo '<p class="logintext"><a href="main.php">Login / Register</a></p>';
}

 

Should fix you up.

[ricmetal]

when you echo something and insert php in the middle of the echo you have to end the echo where php code restarts.

 

something like that.

 

eg

 

$a = "world";

echo "hello ".$a.", nice to meet you!";

 

the dot is called conctacnation (something!) meaning "attaching"

so youll attaching ehcoed stuff to php stuff to form a big non php line (usually html)

 

echo "not php".$php."not php";

 

more so:

 

echo "<td id='bgColor' style='width: 10%'><a href='add.php?id=".$info['id']."'>;

 

notice the end of the above line

 

"'>;

 

it's

 

" + '>;

 

edit:

ill leave the post, better to teach a man to fish than to give him food ei

besides all this writing isnt going to waste

[garfee]

'Should fix you up.'

 

Thanks for your reply Premiso. I changed the code but when I do it does not build the string including the variables. ie. I only get the hyphen and when hovered over it does not add the id number to the link. So basically my link looks like this  - 

 

Here is the entire code:

 

<?

/* Include Files *********************/

session_start();

include("database.php");

include("login.php");

/*************************************/

?>

 

 

<?php

 

$host="localhost";

$username="username";

$password="password";

$db_name="db";

$tbl_name="tbl";

 

 

mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect");

mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");

 

 

$sql="SELECT * FROM $tbl_name ORDER BY author DESC";

$result=mysql_query($sql);

 

 

while($rows=mysql_fetch_array($result)){

?>

 

 

 

 

<?

 

}

 

 

mysql_close();

?>

<?

if($logged_in){

  echo '<a href="tex.php?id=' . $rows['id'] . '">' . $rows['title'] . ' - <i>'.$rows['author'].'</i></a>';

}else{

  echo '<p class="logintext"><a href="main.php">Login / Register</a></p>';

}

 

?>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[garfee]

Thanks Premiso and Ricmetal.

 

Problem solved. Sometimes I surprise myself with my own stupidty !!!

 

Cheers guys.