$username variable not passed in link

[aquatradehub]

Hi, I am trying to pass a user to the page that contains any customer reviews. I am using the link 

<a href="reviews.php?username=$username">See reviews</a>

on line 26 to try and access the users review.php page, but hovering over the link or clicking on it results in the following

http://e-quatics.com/reviews.php?username=$username

this should read

eg. http://e-quatics.com/reviews.php?username=member1

Here is the code for the page. I cant seem to figure out why the $username value is not picked up by the code and used in the link.

<?php
include 'core/init.php';
include 'includes/overall/header.php';

if (isset($_GET['username']) === true && empty($_GET['username']) === false) {
	$username 		= $_GET['username'];
	
	if (user_exists($username) === true) {
		$user_id		= user_id_from_username($username);
		$profile_data	= user_data($user_id, 'username', 'date');
		$count_items_listed   = count_items_listed($user_id);
		$count_live_items_listed   = count_live_items_listed($user_id);
		// $count_items_sold   = count_items_sold($user_id);
		// $count_items_purchased   = count_items_purchased($user_id);
		// $count_reviews   = count_reviews($user_id);



		?>
	
		<h1><?php echo filterBadWords($profile_data['username']); ?>'s Profile</h1>
		<br>
		<p>Member Since: <?php echo $profile_data['date']; ?></p>
		<p>Number of items sold: <?php // echo $count_items_sold; ?></p>
		<p>Number of items purchased: <?php // echo $count_items_purchased; ?></p>
		<p>Number of customer reviews: <?php // echo $count_reviews ?><a href="reviews.php?username=$username">See reviews</a></p>
		<p>Number of live items currently listed: <?php echo $count_live_items_listed; ?></p>
		<p>Number of items currently listed: <?php echo $count_items_listed; ?></p>
		
		
	<?php
	} else {
		echo 'Sorry, that user doesn\'t exist!';
	}
} else {
	header('Location: index.php');
	exit();
}

include 'includes/overall/footer.php'; ?>

As always guys, your help is much appreciated.

aquaman

[aquatradehub]

Its ok, worked it out

<p>Number of customer reviews: <?php echo '<a href="reviews.php?username=' . $username . '">See customer reviews</a>'; ?></p>

 

 

[ginerjm]

Because of your penchant to go into and out of PHP mode constantly, your error is because you are building that tag OUTSIDE of php mode.

 

Better script organization and techniques would alleviate the need to use <? more than once in a script.