How do I echo a tag which has an href that is using php echo base_url()

Question

Hi I am trying to produce a <td> which also contains an <a> link which will redirect to a function in my controller which also echos the id of my data. Here is my code so far:

<?php 
    if ($this->session->userdata("username")==$info->U_username) {
        echo '<td><a href="<?php echo base_url()gamestalker/edit_content/<?php echo $info->C_id;?>">EDIT</a></td>';
    }
?>

This code produces an error Disallowed Key characters. Any help or comment is highly appreciated.

you're already in PHP (and echo), so there's no need for addtional PHP tags and echo — Funk Forty Niner, Apr 27 '15 at 13:16
having use http://php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php would have helped you and avoided this question entirely — Funk Forty Niner, Apr 27 '15 at 13:18

pavel · Answer 1 · 2015-04-27T13:20:14.393

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For concatenating strings PHP has . operator.

echo '<td><a href="' . base_url() . 'gamestalker/edit_content/' . $info->C_id . '">EDIT</a></td>';

edited Apr 27 '15 at 13:20

answered Apr 27 '15 at 13:17

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The closing php tag looks false ("?>" after "$info->C_id . '") :) – Florian Apr 27 '15 at 13:20
@Florian: you're right, I've forgotten to delete it. Thanks. – pavel Apr 27 '15 at 13:20

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 27 '15 at 13:17

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You need to add the result of base_url() to the string you want to output, e.g.:

echo '<td><a href="' . base_url() . '/gamestalker/edit_content/' . $info->C_id . '">EDIT</a></td>';

answered Apr 27 '15 at 13:17

Florian

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 27 '15 at 13:18

Either you need to concatinate instead to use php multiple time .use like this

<?php 
    if ($this->session->userdata("username")==$info->U_username){
        echo "<td><a href='".base_url()."'/gamestalker/edit_content/'".$info->C_id."'>EDIT</a></td>";
    }
?>

or don't include html into php tags like this

<?php 
    if ($this->session->userdata("username")==$info->U_username){ ?
       <td><a href="<? echo  base_url() ; ?>/gamestalker/edit_content/<? echo $info->C_id ; ?>">EDIT</a></td>
  <?  }
?>

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 27 '15 at 13:20

You need string concatenation. In PHP you use . for that.

Also codeigniter's base_url can take an argument:

<?php 
    if ($this->session->userdata("username")==$info->U_username){
        echo '<td><a href="'.base_url('gamestalker/edit_content/'.$info->C_id).'">EDIT</a></td>';
    }
?>

How do I echo a tag which has an href that is using php echo base_url()

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