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18 Jul 2000, 07:16

In my forumdisplay.php I want to be able to display a separate link dependent on the forum they are reading at the time.

This is what I have:

if ($forumid==4) {
$ForumNews = "<IMG SRC=\"/icons/icon4.gif\" height=15 width=15 border=0>  <A HREF=\"/rules/$forumid.html\"><smallfont Color=Red>Posting Guidelines for the Software For Sale Forum</A> <IMG SRC=\"/icons/icon4.gif\" height=15 width=15 border=0>  <A HREF=\"http://www.xchangecity.com/\">Exchange your used DVDs and CDs here!</smallfont></A> <IMG SRC=\"/icons/icon4.gif\" height=15 width=15 border=0>  <largefont color=red>NO AUCTIONS! ALL SALE ITEMS MUST HAVE A POSTED PRICE</largefont>";
}
elseif ($forumid==5) {
$ForumNews = "<IMG SRC=\"/icons/icon4.gif\" height=15 width=15 border=0>  <A HREF=\"/rules/$forumid.html\"><smallfont color=red>Posting Guidelines for the Hardware For Sale Forum</smallfont></A> <IMG SRC=\"/icons/icon4.gif\" height=15 width=15 border=0>  <A HREF=\"http://www.wildin.com/addatrade.asp\"><largefont Color=Red Size="3">NO AUCTIONS! ALL SALE ITEMS MUST HAVE A POSTED PRICE</largefont></A>";
} else {
$ForumNews = "";
}

This keeps giving me a parsing error.

Any ideas as to what would be causing the error?

Thanks,
Parker

18 Jul 2000, 11:45

Originally posted by Parker Clack
if ($forumid==4) {
$ForumNews = "<IMG SRC=\"/icons/icon4.gif\" height=15 width=15 border=0>  <A HREF=\"/rules/$forumid.html\"><smallfont Color=Red>Posting Guidelines for the Software For Sale Forum</A> <IMG SRC=\"/icons/icon4.gif\" height=15 width=15 border=0>  <A HREF=\"http://www.xchangecity.com/\">Exchange your used DVDs and CDs here!</smallfont></A> <IMG SRC=\"/icons/icon4.gif\" height=15 width=15 border=0>  <largefont color=red>NO AUCTIONS! ALL SALE ITEMS MUST HAVE A POSTED PRICE</largefont>";
}
elseif ($forumid==5) {
$ForumNews = "<IMG SRC=\"/icons/icon4.gif\" height=15 width=15 border=0>  <A HREF=\"/rules/$forumid.html\"><smallfont color=red>Posting Guidelines for the Hardware For Sale Forum</smallfont></A> <IMG SRC=\"/icons/icon4.gif\" height=15 width=15 border=0>  <A HREF=\"http://www.wildin.com/addatrade.asp\"><largefont Color=Red Size="3">NO AUCTIONS! ALL SALE ITEMS MUST HAVE A POSTED PRICE</largefont></A>";
} else {
$ForumNews = "";
}

Should be Size=\"3\" :)

18 Jul 2000, 11:49

hi,

I have added some '\' before the '"'s. You forget them some times. Try the following code. If it doesn´t work, I give you an alternative way to display different links.

Code:
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Greetings, Daniel

[Edited by Daniel on 07-18-2000 at 07:50 AM]

18 Jul 2000, 11:57

or else use a ' instead of a " : $string = "your string";

Some sort of qq function/operator (like in perl) would be usefull in php btw

18 Jul 2000, 14:22

Thanks for all the suggestions. I just needed the \"3\"
as suggested. Forgot about that.

I agree that some sort of qq function in PHP would be nice.

Parker