A noob's php link question

[MrFancypants]

I'm currently trying to post a link as part of a newspost on a site (can't link to it here as it is work related). The box for newsposts allows html code, but whenever I try to put in a link to another part of the site the code shows up in the page without being converted. I suspect this has something to do with Php which I don't really know much about.

The link I'm trying to put in looks like this: www.abc.de/index.php/location
If I use this with the normal html command <a href=""></a> nothing happens.
If I use www.abc.de/location as address the link is properly converted but doesn't work. Help please?

[Yannick]

index.php/location does not exist/is invalid. It's the same as saying C:\Documents\hello.txt\whatever. You're trying to continue a directory from within a file.

Link directly to the page you are trying to post.

[MrFancypants]

I'd like to, the problem is that the URL of that location is diplayed to me as index.php/location/. When entering this URL in my browser it actually shows me the right page, but I cannot enter the URL into a link.

[Cheese!]

Try not having the last slash at the end. Also, you're doing this?

<a href="somesite.com/index.php/location">linkzorsz</a>

[goody10]

Some site prefer it that way instead of the href and some only work with the " and some without.

[url="link in here"]link title here[/url]

[Graeme]

That is BBCode and HTML. I assume you want to use hyperlink in PHP? If so, either use the echo function or print.

PHP Code:

<?php print( '<a href="http://www.abc.de/index.php/location">Whatever text you want</a>' ); ?>

[Cheese!]

I don't think he would want to link in PHP. Hence:

I suspect this has something to do with Php which I don't really know much about.

It sounds more like the CMS is not liking it. You could also try linking to just the "index.php/location", that is if your news post is in the same directory (it should be).

[Graeme]

Originally Posted by thecheeseman

I don't think he would want to link in PHP.

In some cases, HTML linking within a PHP template causes problems like these; not being able to parse, or convert properly.

[Yannick]

He said the box he's trying to link through supports html; there's no guarantee it has php running on it.

I've still never seen this .php/x thing either. If it's querying something within the php page then it should have a question mark at least.

[MrFancypants]

Thanks for all the input, I tried the other suggestions but it didn't work. I think the page just isn't set up properly.

When inputting a link to box for adding content the link isn't properly converted, it always inserts something (www.nameofsite.de/index.php/content) in front of the address that is used in the html tags. Maybe the box wasn't intended to support html after all.