Constructing a url from two strings

[greenheart]

Hello, I would like to construct a url from two strings. Here is my attempt:

 

echo "<a href=\"" .print($string). "\"><b>";
echo .print($string2).  "</b></a>\n";

 

The above doesn't work, can anyone please tell me how to do it?

 

Thanks very much.

[ProXy_]

you could try this:

 

echo "<a href='" . $string . "'><b>" . $string2 . "</b></a>\n";

 

give that a try, if this don't work reply with errors.

[greenheart]

Tried it and the error was  "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ECHO"

 

This is what I tried:

 

<?php
$link = www.example.com 
echo '<a href="' . $link. '"><b>' .$link. '\n';
}
?>  

[charlesg]

Try this, I know it looks different this what you are used to, but it is highly optimized and will work great. 

 

Notes: 

• echo is slightly faster than print in PHP because echo does not return a value.
  
• The commas are an alternate way to write echo statements, which are faster to process.
  
• Single quotes are faster than double quotes for PHP to process, because it has to check for variables in double quotes.
  
• You don't have to escape single quotes used inside of double quotes, and you don't have to escape double quotes used inside of single quotes.
  

 

 

echo "<a href='", $string, "'><b>", $string2, "</b></a>";

 

EDIT: You will want to use the following code instead to take advantage of the quote trick

 

echo '<a href="', $string, '"><b>', $string2, '</b></a>';

[greenheart]

Tried this too with no luck (found some mistakes)

 

<?php
$link = www.example.com 
echo '<a href="' . $link. '"><b>' .$link. ,'</b></a>\n';

}
?>   

    

 

 

[jon23d]

<?php
$link = www.example.com 
echo '<a href="' . $link. '"><b>' .$link. '\n';
}
?>  

 

$link = "www.example.com";  <-- quotes and terminator, that fixes your error.

 

Try just: echo "<a href='$link'><b>$link\n";  You can just use variables in your strings as long as you use double quotes.

[greenheart]

Thank you Jon that was silly of me (I am new to php and programming).

 

It's all working now.

 

Thank you all and thanks for the tip Charles.