PHP Outputting Data with Escape Sequences

Question

I am trying to concatenate retrieved data from the database into a table cell and make the URL clickable.

I am using the tag with the an href attribute to achieve that, but for some reason it is not working and I'm presented with a blank table cell. Any idea why?

echo "<tr>" . 
         "<td>" . $historyData['Name'] . "</td>" . 
         "<td><a href=\"" . $historyData['URL'] . "\"/a></td>" .
      "</tr>";

Also tried

echo "<tr>" . 
          "<td>" . $historyData['Name'] . "</td>" . 
          "<td><a href="" . $historyData['URL'] . ""/a></td>" .
      "</tr>";

Thanks in advance.

I really, really would suggest to stop using capitalized letters in array indexes. — Xorifelse
– Xorifelse, Commented Nov 17, 2016 at 0:42

Xorifelse · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-17 00:46:28Z

1

You have an option to make a string with ' and ".

if(isset($historyData['Name']) && isset($historyData['URL'])){
  echo "<tr>" . 
         "<td>" . $historyData['Name'] . "</td>" . 
         '<td><a href="' . $historyData['URL'] . '">title</a></td>' .
       "</tr>";
} else {
  echo 'Whoops, I made a booboo with my indexes..';
  print_r($historyData);
}

Then there is also the option of doing something like this:

echo "<td><a href='{$historyData['URL']}'>title</a></td>";

Note that you require to use the not literal string, "

answered Nov 17, 2016 at 0:46

Xorifelse

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