Question

I have a crazy situation that I cannot figure out:

I have this string:

$description = "<a href='".$link."'><img src='".$image."' border=0 ></a>".$description;

and sometimes the printout looks like this:

<a href='http://www.domain.com'><img src='http://www.domain.com/image.jpg' border=0 ></a> Other Text

and other times it looks like this.

<a href=''><img src='' border=0 ></a> Other Text

I would think that something is happening to my variables, but if I do the following:

  $description = $link."<a href='".$link."'><img src='".$image."' border=0 ></a>".$description;

then it outputs the $link variable in front of the html 100% of the time:

http://www.domain.com<a href=''><img src='' border=0 ></a> Other Text

What is going on!?

— SOLVED —

I had parsing scripts that were misbehaving removing the links. The solution should of been intuitive but I thought the string was not being ran through any other functions. too many LOC. Thanks for the support! For those of you who stumble upon this check your parsing functions!

Answer 1

Turn error reporting on to see more information during development…

ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL|E_STRICT);