how would i escape this?

[joemorris86]

hey guys, would someone be able to show me how i would escape this so the echo works. Thanks

echo "[ - <a href="/$dir/game_play.php">Play</a> - ]";

[justsomeguy]

Just put backslashes before the double quotes. If your string starts and ends with double quotes, then you need to escape double quotes inside the string. You can also enclose the string with single quotes, and then you don't need to escape anything but you'll need to concatenate the variable if you use single quotes.

[joemorris86]

thanks

[joemorris86]

Would anyone be able to show me how to escape the 2 forward slashes before and after $div? i tried backslashes but i got the following errorecho "[ - <a href='". /$dir/ ."game_play.php'>Play</a> - ]";Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '.' in /var/www/html/game/game_status.php on line 12

[boen_robot]

Place them into the string, not outside of it:

echo "[ - <a href='/". $dir ."/game_play.php'>Play</a> - ]";

[joemorris86]

cheers buddy

Place them into the string, not outside of it:

echo "[ - <a href='/". $dir ."/game_play.php'>Play</a> - ]";