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[Kazuya]

Spending at least four hours looking at

Original string

Code:

echo "<p><a href=\"?act=delconf&id=\"" . $user->ID . "\">Yes</a> | <a href=\"?act=editrec&id=\"" . $user->ID . "\">No</a>"

and this is what the parsed looked like in the source code:

Code:

<a href="?act=delconf&id="1">Yes</a> | <a href="?act=editrec&id="1">No</a><br />

trying to figure out what the hell I did wrong.

And then I was raging to vad about not being able to find out why my id was showing up in an echoed out regular string, but not in the url. and then, just staring at he source code again, I realized I cut my url off prematurely with the &id=\"" See the double quotes? The \ character will escape the first quote character, meaning it will show up as just " after its parsed, making my string look like how it did in the source code. After taking that out, it parsed correctly and took out that extra ".


It was supposed to look like this:

Code:

echo "<a href=\"?act=delconf&id=" . $user->ID . "\">Yes</a> | <a href=\"?act=editrec&id=" . $user->ID . "\">No</a>";

So, it would output

<a href="?act=delconf&id=1">Yes</a> | <a href="?act=editrec&id=1">
the joys of coding.