Coding a HTML Link in PHP

[RESteve]

Hi guys,
I'm having trouble formatting a link to this line of PHP code:

DEFINE("LANG_FORM_RESTRICTED","Please login or register to post comments.");

What is the correct format for making the word, "register" a link with a title tag as well?

[ChiliPepperWeb]

There may be a little more to it since my PHP is largely self-taught, but I know that putting html tags inside PHP usually requires you to put backslashes in front of all the interior quote marks. I would try it like this:

DEFINE("LANG_FORM_RESTRICTED","Please login or <a href=\"myfile.html\">register</a> to post comments.");

If I'm missing some information here somebody please correct me, but I know I've had to do this before and it's at least partially right, it's just been a while.

[DCVegas]

DEFINE("LANG_FORM_RESTRICTED","Please login or <a href=\"register.php\" title=\"Register Here\">register</a> to post comments.");

[ChiliPepperWeb]

Yeah, I didn't fill out the whole href tag, but at least I was on the right track. Use DCVegas's line Steve, it's more correct.

[RESteve]

That worked great, thanks guys!

Just so I understand, the "\" character in PHP escapes the next character from being recognized in PHP, right? Or something like that? I know that the " character caused issues in the syntax since it is used elsewhere in this line of code.

[DCVegas]

The backslash escapes double quotes in php - so php doesnt 'see' the double quotes, but only prints out the whole string constnat you defined.