PHP, post variable over url

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<?php
    echo "<a href='display_emp.php?employee_id=$rs['emp_id']; onClick=\"return confirm('Are you  that you` `want to DELETE this Data?')\" ><FONT COLOR='#F00'>Click To Delete</FONT></a>";
?>

error: Parse error: parse error, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING'

I am newbie in PHP, can anyone teach me how to solve this error? thanks..

Sammaye · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-23 09:58:59Z

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Try something like:

echo "<a href='display_emp.php?employee_id=".$rs['emp_id']."' onClick='return confirm(\"Are you  that you want to DELETE this Data?\")' ><FONT COLOR='#F00'>Click To Delete</FONT></a>";

Let me just say: that is some terrible html your using there...FONT...really??

answered Jun 23, 2012 at 9:58

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Manikandaraj Srinivasan · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-23 10:05:35Z

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Just remove the quotes surrounding emp_id ($rs[emp_id])

echo "<a href='display_emp.php?employee_id=$rs[emp_id]; onClick=\"return confirm('Are you that you want to DELETE this Data?')\" ><FONT COLOR='#F00'>Click To Delete</FONT></a>";

answered Jun 23, 2012 at 10:05

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PeeHaa · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-23 09:58:31Z

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You are using the double quotes (") inside your string, this makes the string end prematurely and that causes the error.

onClick=\"return

That's your problem

edited Jun 23, 2012 at 9:58

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answered Jun 23, 2012 at 9:58

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Mark Byers Over a year ago

But it's escaped, so shouldn't that be valid?

hjpotter92 · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-23 10:02:22Z

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When you're putting an array-variable with alphabetic index, you should not use another quote.

Here, this one will be correct:

echo "<a href='display_emp.php?employee_id=$rs[emp_id];' onClick=\"return confirm('Are you  that you` `want to DELETE this Data?')\" ><FONT COLOR='#F00'>Click To Delete</FONT></a>";

or as Sammaye suggested, concatenate different parts of strings.

answered Jun 23, 2012 at 10:02

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prakash · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-23 10:13:08Z

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this is the solution

$test = $rs['emp_id'];
$msg = "Are you  that you want to DELETE this Data?";
echo "<a href=display_emp.php?employee_id=".$test." onClick='return confirm(\"".$msg."\")' ><FONT COLOR='#F00'>Click To Delete</FONT></a>";

edited Jun 23, 2012 at 10:13

answered Jun 23, 2012 at 10:02

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kiritsuku · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-13 13:53:40Z

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This should work:

<?php
echo "<a href=\"display_emp.php?employee_id=" . $rs['emp_id'] . "\" onClick=\"return confirm('Are you  that you want to DELETE this Data?');\"><FONT COLOR=\"#FF0000\">Click To Delete</FONT></a>";
?>

edited Nov 13, 2012 at 13:53

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answered Jun 23, 2012 at 9:59

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