Use permalink in PHP with HTML

Question

I have a question using HTML and PHP combined.

I have this little code:

$args = array( 'post_type' => 'program', 'posts_per_page' => 100 );
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );

        while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
        echo '<div class="singleprogram">';
            echo '<div class="entry-title"><a href="'the_permalink()'">';
            the_title();
            echo '</a></div>'; 
            echo '<div class="entry-content">';
            the_content();
            echo '</div></div>';

        endwhile;

If I use this, my page gets all blank. Any ID what I'm doing wrong??

( if i delete the_permalink() and leave a href="" blank then its working but of course it doesn't link to something )

Thanks in advance!

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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You need to properly concatenate the the_permalink() into the string. You can do this using the . operator.

Try this:

echo '<div class="entry-title"><a href="' . the_permalink() . '">';

You can also use the , operator for concatenation inside an echo:

echo '<div class="entry-title"><a href="' , the_permalink() , '">';

which, according to this source, is slightly faster.

Without this, your page "gets all blank" because you have an error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'the_permalink' (T_STRING), expecting ',' or ';' in ...

Which causes your program to crash.

To avoid the "white screen of death", enable error reporting while developing. This will make debugging problems like this much easier.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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answered Jun 17 '14 at 20:32

Mark Miller

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Thanks for the quick reply! When i use the dots in the script, i get the following result: [link]http://www.octest.nl/testerror/error1.png So the permalink is visible but needs to be placed in the a href – stroeda Jun 18 '14 at 08:29
@user2190380 I think that is a different problem. The `.` works fine for the problem as shown. [**See this simple example**](http://codepad.org/qXTN065X) – Mark Miller Jun 18 '14 at 08:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 17 '14 at 20:30

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I think, you forgot the points for string-concatenation (e.g. ' . the_permalink() . ' ... not ' the_permalink ').

answered Jun 17 '14 at 20:30

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Thanks for the quick reply! When i use the dots in the script, i get the following result: [link]http://www.octest.nl/testerror/error1.png So the permalink is visible but needs to be placed in the a href – stroeda Jun 18 '14 at 08:30
Examine the element, using your browser's tools (in case of firefox: right-click and select "inspect element"). Or look at the source-code of the page. Maybe the "the_permalink()"-function creates a complete a-tag, in which case, you might have 2 a-tags inside of each other. - just a guess. – doh-nutz Jun 22 '14 at 09:34

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 30 '14 at 09:11

Thanks for the information. I found my own solution, don't know why this does work but it works.

echo '<div class="entry-title"><a href="';
        echo the_permalink();
        echo '">';
        echo $post->post_title;
        echo '</a></div>';

I had to break up the a href.

Thanks

Use permalink in PHP with HTML

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