Problem with <a href> and variable

[dmendez12]

Hi,

 

I have this piece of code that I can´t make it work. To give you a little background, this is not in a php file itself, it is part of a component in Joomla, which is based in php, and there is a section where I can input PHP code to modify some output.

 

The only thing I am pending is to add target="_blank" so it can open in New Window. I have tried all sort of things and nothing is working.

 

Here is the line that it WORKS but I need to add the target.

 

$items["title"]["value"] = "<a href=".$items['title']['value'].">Download Document</a>";

 

Please help me!

[cssfreakie]

have a look at the following, note though i added a line break on purpose so you can see what parts this link consists of.

 

<?php

$items['title']['value']= 3;  // just some value because i have no idea what is in there.

$items['title']['value'] =  //note the single quotes!!

'<a href="'                                 //note the single quotes around the first part and the double quotes to surround the attribute property 
.$items['title']['value'].               //note the appending dots
'" target="blank">Download Document</a>';   //note the single quotes around the last part and the double quotes for the attribute property

echo $items['title']['value'];



?>

[dmendez12]

Thanks but that didn´t work.

 

I have tried that.

 

Just to make it clear, the echo of that is a filename.

 

echo $items['title']['value']; // the result of that is FILENAME.pdf

 

Any other idea? Or is there a way to declare the target attribute of <a> somewhere else?

[cssfreakie]

the above just works, so you might want to run as stand alone. and see why it works

also pay attention to the difference between double and single quotes!

[QuickOldCar]

$items['title']['value'] = "<a href='".$items['title']['value']."'>Download Document</a>";
echo $items['title']['value'];