How can i do this?

[swiftmed]

Hey guys,

on my website there is a page which pulls some articles from a database, and on that page it displays things like the article, author name, author link etc. the thing is right now the page displays the authors link like www.swiftmediauk.co.uk but we want it to say "View Website".

This is the code that pulls that link:

if($row['link . $i'] != null)
                {
                    echo("<a href=\"http://" . $row['link$i'] . "\">" . $row['link$i'] . "</a><br />");
                }

Can anybody tell me what that line should read to make the link appear as View Website please?

[exam]

Change the echo line to:

PHP Code:

echo("<a href=\"http://" . $row['link$i'] . "\">View Website</a><br />"); 


Is the rest of your script working fine? Some of that syntax looks painful...

"<a href=\"http://"
could very well be simplified to:
'<a href="http://'

and

$row['link$i']

doesn't look to healthy.

[swiftmed]

Hello mate,

thanks for doing that, it worked a treat. Im not sure about the script, it was done for my by a "professional", however i removed the "\" as you pointed out, and the page brought up an error, so im not too sure whether there is problems there or now. anyhow thanks for taking the time to help me.

[swiftmed]

Ive just looked at the articles page again and clicked on the "view website" link and for some reason the web address seems to be wrong on all. The url showing is "http:///"... any ideas mate?

[Arenlor]

The way he used it he was using single quotes so you don't have to escape double quotes. I would suggest this for trouble shooting:

PHP Code:

echo $row['link$i']; 


escaping works fine, but if you want to simplify it use the following:

PHP Code:

echo('<a href="http://' . $row['link$i'] . '">View Website</a><br />'); 


I'm not too sure if $row['link$i'] will work or not, but let me know what echoing it shows.