URL link with variable?

[JMair]

 

what I'm trying now

<?php
$foldername = 'ABBA'; //some folder name

echo '<a href="media/music/$foldername">$foldername</a>';

?>

 

I hope you can see what I'm trying to do. But my return is.

$foldername

 

 

So how can I add a variable into this link?

[chmpdog]

Oh this is pretty, actually really easy to do. Basically you need to tell php to "stop" echoing. You do this by removing the quotes. Here take a look:

 

$foldername = "asdf";
echo '<a href="media/music/$foldername">'.$foldername.'</a>';

 

 

[Maq]

You need the whole string in double quotes or else the variables won't interpolate.  For attributes use single quotes.

 

echo "$foldername";

[Maq]

Oh this is pretty, actually really easy to do. Basically you need to tell php to "stop" echoing. You do this by removing the quotes. Here take a look:

 

$foldername = "asdf";
echo ''.$foldername.'';

 

 

 

Your code just needs a minor adjustment to work 

 

$foldername = "asdf";
echo '' . $foldername . '';

[Andy-H]

$foldername = "asdf";
echo '<a href="media/music/' . urlEncode($foldername) . '">' . stripSlashes(htmlEntities($foldername, ENT_QUOTES)) . '</a>';

 

[Maq]

Hehe good idea Andy-H 

[Andy-H]

Thanks

 

BTW, I was wondering if capitalising the characters in standard PHP functions make a script slower?

 

Does it treat it as a seperate function, have to check the code for case-sensitivity; or are functions case-insensitive?

 

Sorry to go off-topic but I like to use this method to make it more readable and have always pondered the above, thanks for any answers.

[Maq]

Does it treat it as a seperate function, have to check the code for case-sensitivity; or are functions case-insensitive?

 

No functions in PHP are not case-sensitive.  Being a Java developer, I tend to do the same thing.  I believe this style of naming is referred to as CamelCase.

[Andy-H]

Thankyou Maq

[JMair]

just a note, this works fine for names with no spaces, but if there is a space the output for this

$foldername = "Pan Cakes";
echo '<a href="media/music/' . urlEncode($foldername) . '">' . stripSlashes(htmlEntities($foldername, ENT_QUOTES)) . '</a>';

 

is Pan+Cakes

leading to a dead link.

[premiso]

is Pan+Cakes

leading to a dead link.

 

Make your folder names have - or _ in them, so Pan-Cakes  I take it you want to do this for SEO Reasons. That is the best way to do it. A space is not kosher as it breaks the structure to say and causes you to have to use %20 for it to work.

 

Convert your folder names to have - or _ in them whereever there is a space, then you can simply use a str_replace on space characters and convert them to whichever character you have chosen.