PHP Link Bug

[dylanm312]

Hi all,

First thing's first: I've got to try out one of these smileys, so...

That was fun.



I've been playing around with using PHP to process HTML forms, and my earlier code looked like this:

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<?php
   $gender = $_POST['gender'];
   
   if($gender == 'Male'){
      echo('male');
   }else {
      echo('female');
   }
   echo('<a href="/index.html">Return</a>');
?>

Really, all this does is if the user selected "Male" from the drop-down menu he will receive a nice little message reminding him that he is male, and vice versa. The user also has a return link to go back to the homepage.

My problems arise when I try to replace the text with images:

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<?php
   $gender = $_POST['gender'];
   
   if($gender == 'Male'){
      echo('<img src="/images/its_a_boy.jpg"');
   }else {
      echo('<img src="/images/its_a_girl.jpg"');
   }
   echo('<a href="/index.html">Return</a>');
?>

The link becomes not a link and instead turns into plain text. All efforts to replace its link-ness have failed.

Any ideas?
Dylan

[seandisanti]

if you were manually writing your markup instead of echoing it out; wouldn't you close your image tags with greater than signs?

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          echo('<img src="/images/its_a_boy.jpg"');//see what i mean?
 

[swarups]

Hi dylanm312,

Here your image tag is not closed. So the link comes as a text. Please see the code below:

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$gender = $_POST['gender'];
   

if($gender == 'Male'){
      echo('<img src="/images/its_a_boy.jpg"/>');
   }else {
      echo('<img src="/images/its_a_girl.jpg" />');
   }
   echo('<a href="/index.html">Return</a>');

Thanks
Swarup