Blank page because of an echo

Hi everyone.
I've been having some problems with a PHP implementation here. I have to use a .txt file as a database for the Updates section of this website. I already found a way of doing it, but I still haven't figure out a way of passing the id of the news the user is clicking to the page that is loaded when you click the link More >>.

I thought this was right:

PHP Code:

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echo "<li><strong>" . $story[1] . "</strong> - " . $story[2] . ". <a href=\"internal/news.php?id=".story[0]."\">More &gt;&gt;</a></li>"; 


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It works perfectly when I don't try to pass the id to the link. But whenever I try to include it, it stops working and gives me a blank page, what I learned that occurs when there's an error in the code. So where is the error? I can't see a reason for it to not work.

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EDIT: I forgot to say that I posted the link for the .html page so you can see something similar to what I want to achieve. To see what's happening with the .php, just click the link and then change the extension from .html to .php.

i dont see anything wrong per the code that you posted, but do you have access to the error being given?

I didn't have access to the error. I even tried to check the parsed source code (according to some goggled info, it should contain the error message), but nothing, it was literally a blank page.
But I tried a new approach and it works now. I'm using list() = explode(); to separate the content into distinct vars ($id,$date,$title) and then use these vars in the echo. I don't know why, but apparently this was happening because I was using $story[0] to pass the id to the link in the echo. Why isn't it possible?

yes but if there is a blank page then a php error is generated.. i was asking if you had access to the php error log to let us know what the fatal error was.

Code:

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$data="<li><strong>";
$data .= "$story[1]" ;
$data .= "</strong> - ";
$data .= "$story[2]" ;
$data .= "<a href=\"internal/news.php?id=\"";
$data .= "story[0].\'\'>More &gt;&gt;</a></li>";
echo "$data";

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I'm a sloppy coder, but this should work.

EDIT: Actually, I tested it and it worked.

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Originally Posted by boogyman

yes but if there is a blank page then a php error is generated.. i was asking if you had access to the php error log to let us know what the fatal error was.

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No, I don't. I don't have access to any kind of "internal" aspects/features of the server.

Try adding error_reporting(E_ALL); right under <?php...

And try wrapping your echoed code in single quotes so you don't have to slash the quotes, like so:

PHP Code:

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echo '<a href="something.html">Sample "quotes"</a>'; 


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It makes the code simple and makes it easier to spot mistakes.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by alexjewell

And try wrapping your echoed code in single quotes so you don't have to slash the quotes, like so:

PHP Code:

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echo '<a href="something.html">Sample "quotes"</a>'; 


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It makes the code simple and makes it easier to spot mistakes.

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also when you are parsing text you should break out of php as much as possible

Yeah, for example, say if you have an if statement, you could do this and not even use echo:

PHP Code:

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<?php if(this){ ?>
<!-- HTML HERE -->
<?php } ?>

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But we're getting off-subject a bit. :p

You are repeating your quotes too often...try having your echo a double-quote, and others single quotes....php often gets confusing with characters