New to theme programming: PHP home page link to single post

  • bswb97

    (@bswb97)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    I’m fairly new to theme programming but I think this will be a pretty easy answer for the community.

    On my Home page, I am customizing excerpt content. I want to customize the Read More link below some other customized excerpt content.

    How do I call out the post URL in a PHP echo statement? I tried this:

    <?php
<a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '"> Get more info...</a>;
 ?>

    It gave me a nasty error that didn’t show up when I used just a traditional URL in the HREF field…so, I figure there’s something wrong with the callout. Help!

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  • s_ha_dum

    (@apljdi)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    You have invalid– very invalid– PHP. Your anchor tag is inside a PHP block but isn’t a proper string so PHP is going to try to execute it as if it were PHP code, and since it isn’t you get a nasty error. 

    <?php
echo '<a href="'.get_permalink($post->ID).'"> Get more info...</a>';
?>

    Notice the single quote marks at the beginning and end of the string, and the ‘echo’ statement.

    You could also do:

    <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->ID); ?>">Get more info...</a>

    Assuming I didn’t make a mistake, those should work.

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