query string problem is whooping my behind..help please!

[Stan007]

this is what i want in the url 
http://localhost/board/italian.php?page=2&country=italian

when this link is clicked 
echo "<a href='?page=".($page_number + 1)." ".(&)." country=".($cleaned_current_page_country)."'>Next</a>";

but i keep getting this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '&' in C:\xampp\htdocs\board\includes\menuboard_main_display.php on line 105

appreciate any help

[ginerjm]

Change ." ".(&

to 

.' '.(&

and why do you wrap things in parens?

$page_number++;
echo "
    <a href='?page=$page_number&country=$cleaned_current_page_country'>Next
    </a>";

Note that I incremented the page num before the href

 

[mac_gyver]

you should use http_build_query() when building the query string part of urls (it automatically urlencodes the values for you.) you should start with a copy of any existing $_GET parameters (before the start of you loop), so that your code only modifies the one(s) they are responsible for. you should use &amp; as the separator in links.

 

 

[Phi11W]

Remember that you're constructing a PHP string that just happens to contain some HTML markup that a web browser can make sense of.  Nothing magical is going to happen to the way PHO does that building just because you're building "HTML" (or "SQL"). 

You must follow PHP Rules for constructing strings and having that "loose" ampersand floating around in the middle, whether or not it's wrapped in braces, just won't work.

How about something more like this: 

printf( '<a href='?page=%d&country=%s'>%s</a>', $page_number + 1, $cleaned_current_page_country, 'Next' ); 

Regards, 
   Phill  W.

 

[Barand]

@mac_gyver gave the correct way to do it - http_build_query()

EG

$url = 'http://localhost/board/italian.php';

$data = [  'page'    => 2,
           'country' => 'italian',
           'comment' => 'this is a (simple) comment'
        ];
        
$qstr = http_build_query($data);
$url .= '?' . $qstr;

echo $url;                   //--> http://localhost/board/italian.php?page=2&country=italian&comment=this+is+a+%28simple%29+comment

Note the encoding of the query string

[Stan007]

Guys i am so thankful for all the help and support, i am overwhelmed. I will try every idea suggested about and get back to you guys......Many thanks guys.