Re: pretty simple-but i can't figure it out

look at your quotes... you have a " inside of your echo statement, which royally messes up what you'd expect echo to output. and from a style POV, you might want to put "{}" around your vars, for example "more{$i}.php". it will make your vars stick out a bit more and prevent accidental mis-interpretation (if you use "$imore.php", it would not use "$i"'s value but "$imore") -- Scott Hurring Systems Programmer EAC Corporation scott (*) eac.com -- "Tim Blackwell" <timblackwell@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:20020726151301.32813.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > thanks a lot, that helped. now, why doesn't the link below work > > > echo "<a href > ='/myweb2/more$i.php'onClick="window.open('/myweb2/more$i.php' > ,'popup','width=645,height=450,resizable=1,scrollbars=no');return > false;"> > more...</a>"; > > > > > "Peter" <newsaddress@saracenvsu.org.uk> wrote in message > news:20020725205238.37974.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > You could also make a function to simplify things if you have lots of > links > > > > function dolink($href, $text) { > > $text = "<A HREF=\"$href\">$text</A>"; > > return $text; > > } > > > > then calling > > echo dolink("page1.php","Link to page 1"); > > would output a link to page1.php with the text Link to page 1 > > > > > > > > "Tim Blackwell" <timblackwell@hotmail.com> wrote in message > > news:20020725202617.8703.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > > how do you make a link using PHP it's very simple in html and > javascript, > > > but i can't seem to figure out how to make a simple link? > > > > > > i'm making a news site and would like to have enormous articles have a > > nice > > > little more...... link at the bottom of the first portion of the > article. > > > > > > any help would be much appreciated, > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > tim > > > > > > > > > > > >