Sending variables in URLs in PHP with echo
- by alexpelan
Hi all,
I can't really find good guidelines through google searches of the proper way to escape variables in URLs. Basically I am printing out a bunch of results from a mysql query in a table and I want one of the entries in each row to be a link to that result's page. I think this is easy, that I'm just missing a apostrophe or backslash somewhere, but I can't figure it out. Here's the line that's causing the error:
echo "<a href = \"movies.php/?movie_id='$row['movie_id']'\"> Who Owns It? </a> ";
and this is the error I'm getting:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING
If you could elaborate in your answers about general guidelines for working with echo and variables in urls, that would be great. Thanks.
