Question

I’ve been trying for hours to figure out how to put a link into the following text output via PHP echo(). I basically want to make the title field I’m pulling from my events table (as seen in #4 in the code below) to come back into the browser as a link instead of just text…

the original code that brings back the event title:

<?php
// 3. Perform database Query to bring list of events
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM events", $connection);
if (!$result) {
    die("Database query failed: " . mysql_error());
}

// 4. Use returned Data
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    echo $row ["eventtitle"]."<br/>".$row["eventdesc"]."<br/>";
}
?>

How would I go about getting that $row["eventtitle"] to appear in the browser as a link? Let’s say if the link was just “eventprofile.php”. This is probably an easy fix, but I’ve been getting a million errors with trying different things with <a href>s.

Answer 1

<?php
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM events", $connection);
if (!$result) {
 die("Database query failed: " . mysql_error());
}
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
 echo "<a href=\"eventprofile.php\">".$row["eventtitle"]."</a><br/>".$row["eventdesc"]."<br/>";
}
?>