Adding a variable into a <a href> tag

What are you trying to have it default too?

try this:

<a href="http://www.sky2five.com/jpegged/index.php?PostID=<?=$post_ID?>">

that will add a QueryString Variable "PostID" with the value of post_ID.

Not sure if that's what you want.. maybe some more clarification will help,

CHeers.

Good day:

The problem is indeed in your syntax.  First, the script doesnt know that you are passing any data to it because you haven't defined a variable in the URL.  Without any html code, your url should look something like this:

http://www.sky2five.com/jpegged/index.php?post_id=5

You'll notice there that I added the question mark (which means that a single variable is getting ready to follow), then I added post_id=5.  post_id is just a variable name that I made up.  You can name it anything you like.  Then you see = and then the number 5.  The number 5 in this case, obviously represents your variable $post_ID in your script.  I just gave it a value in this case so you can see how it all fits together.

So in order to fix your script, you have to add a variable name to the url, and then pass the value.  I chose to use a full <?php ?> block here, for clarity, but it should work the same either way.

<?php

echo "<dl class=\"gallery\"><dd><a href=\"http://www.sky2five.com/jpegged/index.php?post_id=\"".$post_ID."\">Click here</a>";

?>

Now in your script (index.php) you will need to retrieve this value like this--

<?php

// index.php--
// Your code should already be here someplace--

$postID=$_GET['post_id'];
if(!isset($postID) || empty($postID)) {
      // Handle the error here--
} else {
     // Script continues--
}

?>

Please let me know if there is any other way that I could clarify this for you.   Hope it helps!  Have a wonderful day!

Inorrect: <dl class="gallery"><dd><a href="http://www.sky2five.com/jpegged/index.php<?=$post_ID?>">

Correct: <dl class="gallery"><dd><a href="http://www.sky2five.com/jpegged/index.php?post_id=<? echo $post_ID; ?>">

If your $post_ID = 1, then the URL looks like the one below that I posted. I actually went to your site, you pass a parameter to index.php and assign a number to it. So far, I noticed two parameters - cat and p. Try to modify the URL as I suggested. It worked on my server.

<?php
//just an example

      $post_ID=1;
?>


<dl class="gallery">
  <dd>
      <a href="http://www.sky2five.com/jpegged/index.php?cat=<?php print $post_ID?>">Click here</a>

Here is "proper" way to do this. First we check whether variable is set or not, then if true we echo out ?post_ID=value, otherwise we don't do anything.

<dl class="gallery"><dd><a href="http://www.sky2five.com/jpegged/index.php<?php echo (isset($post_ID) ? '?post_ID=' . $post_ID : ''); ?>">

You must be careful with variable names because $post_ID is not the same as $post_id!!