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Mikedefieslife
Mikedefieslife

Reputation: 522

Output links in php

I've got a piece of wordpress code that outputs a string (which is a url)

I need to convert this output to a link.

echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "Link", true);

The code is already inside tags as there are other php calls in the file too.

How do I modify the code to output a link?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 267

Answers (2)

heartyporridge
heartyporridge

Reputation: 1201

Because PHP can echo literal HTML code, you can simply output the link inside a hyperlink.

echo "<a href=\"" . get_post_meta($post->ID, "Link", true) . "\">Your Link Name</a>";

Alternatively, you can choose to close and reopen the PHP tag before and after the echo statement. The above is the same as...

?>
<a href="
<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "Link", true); ?>
">Your Link Name</a>
<?php

The second method is handy when you have large blocks of output and you don't want to make individual echo statements all over the place.

Upvotes: 0

StormRideR
StormRideR

Reputation: 1758

something like this?

echo '<a href="'.get_post_meta($post->ID, "Link", true).'">'.get_post_meta($post->ID, "Link", true).'</a>';

or 

$link=get_post_meta($post->ID, "Link", true);
    echo '<a href="'.$link.'">'.$link.'</a>';

Upvotes: 1

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