UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? ...Put links in an IIP Custom Box

I need/want to put a link in one of the custom boxes in IIP but I can't figure out how to do it.

In custombox4pal.php I have the following lines that work.

// URL: http://www.chattersonline.com


echo "$tbopen<tr><td align="left" class="tdheader">"; // Table Start

echo "Living Hope Newsletters"; // Table Heading

echo "</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" class="lighttable">"; // Close Header and Open Content

echo "Check out the March edition of the Living Hope Letter";

echo "</td></tr>$tbclose<br />"; // Close Content and End Table


?>

When I add a link like below - they don't work.

// URL: http://www.chattersonline.com


echo "$tbopen<tr><td align="left" class="tdheader">"; // Table Start

echo "Living Hope Newsletters"; // Table Heading

echo "</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" class="lighttable">"; // Close Header and Open Content

echo "Check out the <a href="http://www.livehope.org/newsletters/0303.pdf">March</a> edition of the Living Hope Letter";

echo "</td></tr>$tbclose<br />"; // Close Content and End Table


?>

I get a parse error:
Parse error: parse error, expecting `','' or `';'' in /usr/local/www/vhosts/livehope/threads/pals/custombox4pal.php on line 30

Any pointers on what Im doing wrong?

What you have to do is escape out (using a \ ) any quotes inside the HTML you need to insert.

So change this:
<a href="http://www.livehope.org/newsletters/0303.pdf">

to this:

<a href="http://www.livehope.org/newsletters/0303.pdf">

(Note the \ before the two quotes.)

This needs to be done because the whole thing is already in quotes. So when it hits a closing quote... it breaks it. The \ allows it to get past that quote without breaking it, until the very end of the line (the real closing quote).

Do that for all the links.

Most excellent. Works like a charm.
Thanks Josh