echo " --hyperlink--"; creates bad link

**jake5253** · 08-07-2004, 12:52 AM

Hi.

I'm making a small guestbook for my AIM SubProfile (I host all this myself so I'm not bothered by adverts and other crap. And plus it's just fun to play with the scripts!). When I use the echo " " command to print a hyperlink, the link isn't a valid link of AIM. I'm trying to get it to echo "aim:goIM?screenname=$list->name" the script, when the book is signed, saves it to a MySQL Database and retrieves it and prints upon the view page. I've tried numerous things to try to get it to be a link for my viewers to just click n type rather than copy/paste or whatever. I don't understand why it's giving me such a time.

The view.php script is as follows:

PHP Code:


			
<font color="yellow"><b> Welcome to the GuestBook!</b><br></font>

<br><font color="000000" face="Webdings" lang="143" size="2">3</font><font face="verdana" size="2" >

<a href="index" target="_self">Home</a>

<body bgcolor="green">

<?php

$dbhost = "localhost";  

$databees = "guest";  

$dbusername = "root";

$dbpassword = "mypass";

/* view the submitted entries */

mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbusername,$dbpassword);

@mysql_select_db($databees) or die("Unable to select database");

$view = "SELECT * FROM guestbook ORDER BY id DESC";



$query = mysql_query($view);

$aantalrecords = mysql_num_rows($query);

while ($list = mysql_fetch_object($query)) { 

echo "<p><table><tr><td><b>Name: </b></td><td>$list->naam</td></tr><br>";

echo "<tr><td><b>Screen Name: </b></td><td><a href=aim:goim?screenname=$list->email>$list->email</a></td></tr><br>";

echo "</a><tr><td><b>Comments: </b></td><td>$list->commentaar</td></tr><br></table></p>";

echo "<hr>";

}

Thanks in advance!
~Jake

**webwoRRks** · 04:03 AM

Maybe this will help;
first of all, enclose it in quotation marks, just make sure you escape them;

PHP Code:


			
<?php

echo "<a href=\"aim:........

secondly, collect your data as an array, and use it as such;

PHP Code:


			
<?php

$query = mysql_query($view); 

$aantalrecords = mysql_num_rows($query); 

while ($list = mysql_fetch_array($query)) { 

echo "<p><table><tr><td><b>Name: </b></td><td>".$list['naam']."</td></tr><br>"; 

echo "<tr><td><b>Screen Name: </b></td><td><a href=\"aim:goim?screenname=".$list['email']."\">".$list['email']."</a></td></tr><br>"; 

echo "</a><tr><td><b>Comments: </b></td><td>".$list['commentaar']."</td></tr><br></table></p>"; 

echo "<hr>"; 

}