exclusion characters in PHP?

how to put an href tag in php form response?

[cyberbites]

in this line of the response
$end_msg="<p align=center>Thanks!<br>Your mail has been sent.<br>";

I'd like to add the tag <a href="index.html"> Back</a>

to make it look like
$end_msg="<p align=center>Thanks!<br>Your mail has been sent.<br><a href="index.html"> Back</a>";

...but the quote characters in the href tag break the php script...

Is there an exclusion character I may use? ...or?
Thanks,
Mike

[BarryStCyr]

All you have to do is add backslashes like this:

$end_msg="<p align=center>Thanks!<br>Your mail has been sent.<br><a href=\"index.html\"> Back</a>";

To be html correct you should have

$end_msg="<p align=\"center\">Thanks!<br>Your mail has been sent.<br><a href="index.html"> Back</a>";

Barry

[Nutter]

Two choices, either use single quotes or escape the quotes.

1 - $end_msg='<p align=center>Thanks!<br>Your mail has been sent.<br><a href="index.html"> Back</a>';

2 - $end_msg="<p align=center>Thanks!<br>Your mail has been sent.<br><a href=\"index.html\"> Back</a>";

[coopster]

Actually there is one other option called 'heredoc' syntax. cyberbites, the 'exclusion character' you are talking about is commonly known as 'escaping' the character. As the others have shown, you have a few options when it comes to building Strings [php.net].

[cyberbites]

This forum rocks!
Thank you all very much for your help.
Mike