easy question on variables

[icu90ucme]

im trying to pass this variable through this link

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<td>Suspended <a href="take_off_suspension.php?username=$usr[username]">Take off</a></td>


on the take_off_suspension.php page i have

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  $username = $HTTP_GET_VARS['username'];
  echo $username;


the result that is echo'd is "$usr[username" instead of the actual value... does anybody know a fix

[swirlee]

First, of all, you're calling your array element wrong. When specifying an associative index, the index must be specified as a string, e.g. between quotation marks:

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<?
   $arr = array('a' => 1, 'b' => 2);

   // this is very wrong:
   echo $arr[a];

   // this is correct:
   echo $arr['a'];   
?>

Doing it without the quotes still works, but it's deprecated functionality and should never be done. You can read about it in the "Array do's and don'ts" section on this page.

Secondly, I think your problem is that you're trying to access a variable from outside PHP. PHP ignores everything that isn't between <? and ?> tags. So, instead of this:

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<a href="take_off_suspension.php?username=$usr[username]">Take off</a>

You want this:

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<a href="take_off_suspension.php?username=<? echo $usr['username']; ?>">Take off</a>

Or you can use the short syntax:

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<a href="take_off_suspension.php?username=<?= $usr['username'] ?>">Take off</a>