trying to make text and images into clickable links

[scmeeker]

I'm trying to make my text and images into clickable links. The images and text are in a database so its getting really tricky for me since I'm new to PHP. I've tried many different ways without success.

 

Here is a snippet of the code I'm working with. As you can see, I'm also working with an image re-sizer. I would really like to make those images and text

clickable links(i.e. Title). Any help is appreciated!

 

if ($res) {

while ($newArray = mysqli_fetch_array($res, MYSQLI_ASSOC)) {

$detail = $newArray['id'];

$photo = $newArray['photo'];

$id = $newArray['title'];

$price = $newArray['price'];

 

 

list($width) = getimagesize($photo);

// set the maximum width of the image here

$maxWidth = 100;

if ($width > $maxWidth)

 

 

echo "<p><img alt=\"Image\" width=\"$maxWidth\" src=\"$photo\" />";

 

echo "Title:".$id." Price:".$price."<br/";

[Catfish]

Just add the link details (<a href></a>) into the output strings:

 

 

echo "<p><a href=\"http://url.to.file/"><img alt=\"Image\" width=\"$maxWidth\" src=\"$photo\" />";

 

echo "Title:".$id."</a> Price:".$price."<br/";

[scmeeker]

For some reason it keeps giving me this error when I try to use it:

  Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'

 

Here is the changed code:

 

echo "<p><a href="painting.php"><img alt=\"Image\" width=\"$maxWidth\" src=\"$photo\" /></a>";

 

 

[Rustywolf]

For some reason it keeps giving me this error when I try to use it:

  Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'

 

Here is the changed code:

 

echo "<p><a href="painting.php"><img alt=\"Image\" width=\"$maxWidth\" src=\"$photo\" /></a>";

 

I believe it should be

echo "<p><a href="painting.php"><img alt=\"$Image"\ width=\"$maxWidth"\ src=\"$photo"\ /></a>";

the second \ for each one was outside the ""'s and images was missing a $

[isedeasy]

For some reason it keeps giving me this error when I try to use it:

  Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'

 

Here is the changed code:

 

echo "<p><a href="painting.php"><img alt=\"Image\" width=\"$maxWidth\" src=\"$photo\" /></a>";

 

 

 

echo "<p><a href=\"painting.php\"><img alt=\"Image\" width=\"{$maxWidth}\" src=\"{$photo}\" /></a>";

[scmeeker]

Wow!  Thanks everyone!  It was isedeasy's post who resolved the problem.  It was the brackets {} that I needed.  This was the code that resolved my issue: 

 

echo "<p><a href=\"painting.php\"><img alt=\"Image\" width=\"{$maxWidth}\" src=\"{$photo}\" /></a>";

 

Thank you!

[isedeasy]

Actually it was the backslashes for the commas on the anchor tag that were needed. The curly brackets around the variables is just a habit of mine, they are not needed and to be honest I'm not sure if its good practise.

[vijiravi]

I am trying to allow users to enter records that contain text and an image, then I want to fetch these records and make the image clickable link. How can this be done in PHP?

Thanks

[QuickOldCar]

You should probably switch these around to make more sense.

from:

$detail = $newArray['id'];
$photo = $newArray['photo'];
$id = $newArray['title'];
$price = $newArray['price'];

 

to:

$id = $newArray['id'];
$photo = $newArray['photo'];
$detail = $newArray['title'];
$price = $newArray['price'];

 

 

You should really do all the positioning with some sort of css styling to get it the exact way you want.

echo "<p><a href=\"$photo\"><img title=\"$detail\" alt=\"$detail\" width=\"$maxWidth\" src=\"$photo\" /></a><br />$detail";

 

Other ways you can do the same links.

 

If wrapped with double quotes, all single quotes within

echo "<p><a href='$photo'><img title='$detail' alt='$detail' width='$maxWidth' src='$photo' /></a><br />$detail";

 

or use concatenation

echo "<p><a href='".$photo."'><img title='".$detail."' alt='".$detail."' width='".$maxWidth."' src='".$photo."' /></a><br />".$detail;