Posted by Matt Harnaga on 02/01/05 19:15

You are using html entity code for brackets and such. When you use <
instead of <, the web browser prints it literally as a < rather than
interpreting it as an html symbol to mark the start of an anchor (or
whatever). Replace the entity code with their 'regular' equivalents and
you're print problem will go away.

-Matt

Todd Cary wrote:

> Jochem -
>
> Here is the function:
>
> /* Make page path */
> function make_page_path($page_string, $script_name) {
> $parts = explode('|', $page_string);
> for ($i = 0; $i < count($parts); $i++) {
> if ($i == 0) {
> $page_path = '&lt;a href="' . $script_name . '"&gt;' .
> $parts[$i] . '&lt;/a&gt;';
> } else {
> $page_path = $page_path . '->' . '&lt;a href="' . $script_name
> . '"&gt;' . $parts[$i] . '&lt;/a&gt;';
> }
> }
> //print("Page_path: " . $page_path . "<br>");
> return $page_path;
> }
>
> Here is the executing code:
>
> $page_string = make_page_string($page_string, "Search");
> $script_string = make_script_string($script_string, "search.php");
> print("Page_string: " . $page_string . "<br>");
> print("Script_string: " . $script_string . "<br>");
> print("Url: " . $url . "<br>");
> $page_path = make_page_path($page_string, $script_string, $url);
> print($page_path);
>
> To see it execute, this URL will do it:
> http://209.204.172.137/casesearch/php/search.php?search_text=***&page_string=Home&script_string=home.php
>
>
>
> The Title area contains
>
> &nbsp;&nbsp;<? print($page_path); ?>
>
>
> The function that creates the link(s) is
>
>
> /* Make page path */
> function make_page_path($page_string, $script_string, $path) {
> $scripts = explode('|', $script_string);
> $pages = explode('|', $page_string);
> for ($i = 0; $i < count($scripts); $i++) {
> if ($i < count($scripts) - 1) {
> if ($i == 0) {
> $page_path = '&lt;a href="' . $path . $scripts[$i] . '"&gt;'
> . $pages[$i] . '&lt;/a&gt;';
> } else {
> $page_path = $page_path . '-&gt;' . '&lt;a href="' . $path .
> $scripts[$i] . '"&gt;' . $pages[$i] . '&lt;/a&gt;';
> }
> } else {
> if ($i == 0) {
> $page_path = $pages[$i];
> } else {
> $page_path = $page_path . '-&gt;' . $pages[$i];
> }
> }
> }
> //print("Page_path: " . $page_path . "<br>");
> return $page_path;
> }
>
>
>
>
> Thank you for your help...
>
> Todd
>
> Jochem Maas wrote:
>
>> Todd Cary wrote:
>>
>>> OK...I am close, but still missing something. The string returned
>>> by the function is $page_path and it contains
>>>
>>> <a href="http://209.204.172.137/casesearch/php/search.php">Home</a>->
>>
>>
>>
>> ----^
>> what ever else you function is doing this is probably not correct
>>
>>
>>> <a href="http://209.204.172.137/casesearch/php/search.php">Search</a>
>>>
>>> And here is how the function is used:
>>>
>>
>> funny thing is you don't show the code for the function - AND i
>> willing to
>> bet money that the function uses html_entities() - or an equivelant...
>>
>> you say the function returns:
>>
>> <a href="http://209.204.172.137/casesearch/php/home.php">Home</a>
>>
>> but that is bullshit (if everything else you say it true, namely a
>> direct echo of the return
>> value does not show a link), if you bother to look at your own
>> source, then you
>> will see that the string that is output is:
>>
>> &lt;a
>> href=&quot;http://209.204.172.137/casesearch/php/home.php&quot;&gt;Home&lt;/a&gt;
>>
>>
>> actually I noticed that the site had changed a little since I
>> happened to look yesterday.
>> today you are dumping some debug output at the top of the page, where
>> as yesterday
>> you we outputting the borked link next to the logo (the home link
>> there now works - I suspect
>> that this is because you have reverted to functionality there?)
>>
>>
>> post the code for the make_page_path() function!
>
>

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