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phphtmlwordpresspermalinks
stroeda
stroeda

Reputation: 86

Use permalink in PHP with HTML

I have a question using HTML and PHP combined.

I have this little code: 

$args = array( 'post_type' => 'program', 'posts_per_page' => 100 );
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );

        while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
        echo '<div class="singleprogram">';
            echo '<div class="entry-title"><a href="'the_permalink()'">';
            the_title();
            echo '</a></div>'; 
            echo '<div class="entry-content">';
            the_content();
            echo '</div></div>';

        endwhile;

If I use this, my page gets all blank. Any ID what I'm doing wrong??

( if i delete the_permalink() and leave a href="" blank then its working but of course it doesn't link to something )

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6465

Answers (3)

stroeda
stroeda

Reputation: 86

Thanks for the information. I found my own solution, don't know why this does work but it works. 

echo '<div class="entry-title"><a href="';
        echo the_permalink();
        echo '">';
        echo $post->post_title;
        echo '</a></div>';

I had to break up the a href.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Mark Miller
Mark Miller

Reputation: 7447

You need to properly concatenate the the_permalink() into the string. You can do this using the . operator.

Try this:

echo '<div class="entry-title"><a href="' . the_permalink() . '">';

You can also use the , operator for concatenation inside an echo:

echo '<div class="entry-title"><a href="' , the_permalink() , '">';

which, according to this source, is slightly faster.

Without this, your page "gets all blank" because you have an error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'the_permalink' (T_STRING), expecting ',' or ';' in ...

Which causes your program to crash.

To avoid the "white screen of death", enable error reporting while developing. This will make debugging problems like this much easier.

Upvotes: 1

doh-nutz
doh-nutz

Reputation: 320

I think, you forgot the points for string-concatenation (e.g. ' . the_permalink() . ' ... not ' the_permalink ').

Upvotes: 0

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