I am having trouble getting php to bold one <a> without doing all of them. Heres part of my code:

PHP Code:

<a href="index.php?pagecall=browsegen.php&qualifier=Action/Adventure">- Action/Adventure</a><br />
<a href="index.php?pagecall=browsegen.php&qualifier=Animation">- Animation</a><br />
<a href="index.php?pagecall=browsegen.php&qualifier=Comedy">- Comedy</a><br />
<a href="index.php?pagecall=browsegen.php&qualifier=Documentary">- Documentary</a><br /> 


I am basically letting a user pick a movie genre from a list and then it loads the page and I want the menu item that was selected to be bolded.

I have tried several variations of

PHP Code:

if ($_GET['qualifier']="Animation") {
echo "<b>- Action/Adventure</b>"}
else
{echo "- Action/Adventure"} 


What happends tho, is because $qualifier is in the url just before it for some reason assumes that its been set, even though there is nothing in the URL.

Any suggestions?

Use urlencode.

Example:

PHP Code:

<a href="index.php?pagecall=browsegen.php&qualifier=<?php echo urlencode("Action/Adventure"); ?>">- Action/Adventure</a><br />

The problems lies in your if statement, as you do not check weather or not $_GET['qualifier'] equals to a value, but give it a value. In short, you forgot one equals sign (=).

You could also write that if statment a bit shorter, for example

PHP Code:

echo "<a href=\"...your url...\">"
    .($_GET['qualifier'] == "value") ? "<b>value</b>" : "value"; 


missing an = sign, hahaha thats such a stupid mistake buts thats what it always is isnt it? (at least for me ). I tried the other code too "urlencode" and that works. But what exactly does urlencode do. Like why would I use taht as opposed to just doing it the correct way with the ==?

Thanks again for the quick responses quys

I don't really see any point in using urlencode(), I can't figure how rogem002 was thinking. Please correct me if I'm missing something. All that urlencode() does, is exactly what it's name says. It encodes a string to an url. That is, it replaces non alphanumeric (except some, like . or _) values with a % followed by two hex digits. Spaces are replaced with a plus sign. (All this can also be read at php.net).

You can simplify your coding by using an array like this:

PHP Code:

<?php
  
  $qualifier_array = array('Action/Adventure', 'Animation', 'Comedy', 'Documentary');
  
  foreach ($qualifier_array AS $value)
  {
    echo '<a href="index.php?pagecall=browsegen.php&qualifier=' . urlencode($value) . '">- ' . (($_GET['qualifier'] == $value) ? "<strong>$value</strong>" : $value) . "</a><br />\n";
  }
  
?>

Cool thanks mgraphic that worked good. And lizciz I think they did it because theres a / in some of them which will screw up the browser. I guess I couldve just added the % myself but this is easier.