Here is the code I am trying to make work. As you can see, the code as it stands will call a javascript window. All of that works well. I now want to add the lines that are commented out, in order to make the window display conditionally. I have tried many combinations of escaping quotation marks, or substituting them, but nothing works properly. Usually I lose the link action along with a display of some of the code attached to the link. Could someone have a look and see if they can propose a solution.

<?php
                    //if ($review != 0) 
				//$yes2 =  
                    
					if ("{$row['passState']}" == 0) {echo "<a href='javascript:void(0);'NAME='var basestring='window'+new Date().getTime();' title=' Results of quiz 'onClick=window.open('check/check.php?quizTitle=". urlencode($quizTitle) ."', 'width=1100, height=510, resizable=yes, menubar=no, status=0, scrollbars=1');> <p>Check your answers</p> </a><br />\n";} 
                    
                   
				//echo $yes2;					
				//if ($review != 1)
				//echo "";
				?>

If it is any help, I'm using the following code elsewhere on the page and it works fine.

<?php 					
			    if ($review != 0) 
				$yes2 = "REVIEW";
				echo $yes2;					
				if ($review != 1)
				echo ""; 
				?>

I'm really banging my head on this one.

What functionality are you trying to achieve? The expressions in the if statements look wrong. In the first if, you're checking if the $review variable is not equal to 0 and in the second if, you're checking if it's not equal to 1. Are you omitting a bunch of other if statements?

Also if you uncomment the statements as such, you'd get a syntax error as you'll be assigning an if expression to the $yes2 variable. Please clarify

I'll explain further.
Firstly, the shorter piece of code described at the end of my post functions correctly. I just put it in the post to show a simplification of the longer similar piece of code described first. It's OK without the curly braces, but I can put them in, it makes no difference.

Now, the purpose of the first piece of code is to display or not display a column of data showing an array of links in a web page. What can be displayed is a popup javascript window giving the results of a student test. The column is an array because there are several tests to choose from.
Now some managers want their students to be able to see the results and some do not, so on another page in the site a manager can use a form to permit or deny his students the ability to review their results, hence the variable $review which will then have a value of 1 or 0 in the database.
As the code stands (with the conditional statement commented out) it all works fine.
What I want to be able to do is to have the link to the popup window displayed on the page according to a managers choice, yes or no. If I uncomment the conditional statement to enact this, the link no longer works, or even displays correctly.
I need some help in correcting the syntax for $yes = "blah blah etc";

Also, I should explain that there is a further condition already embedded in the link, and that is that the link should only display if passState in the database has a value of 0. This means that the student did not pass the test. This means that only tests that were not passed can be reviewed, but additionally, some managers do not want students to have that option anyway.

I'll post the whole code although it is rather long.

<?php session_start();
ini_set('session.bug_compat_42',0);
ini_set('session.bug_compat_warn',0);
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED);
// check if logged in.
if (isset($_SESSION['id'])) {
	// Put session variables into local variables
    $userPwd     = $_SESSION['userPwd'];	
    $id          = $_SESSION['id'];
	$userIdRec   = $_SESSION['userIdRec'];
    $userId      = $_SESSION['userId'];
	$quizTitle   = $_SESSION['quizTitle'];
	$family      = $_SESSION['family'];
	$given       = $_SESSION['given'];
	$transferCode= $_SESSION['transferCode'];
	$userCollege = $_SESSION['userCollege'];
	$userGroup   = $_SESSION['userGroup'];
	$egroup      = $_SESSION['egroup'];
	$managerId   = $_SESSION['managerId'];
	$doe         = $_SESSION['doe'];
	$lastlogin   = $_SESSION['lastlogin'];
	$avatar      = $_SESSION['avatar'];
	$permit      = $_SESSION['permit'];
	$speech      = $_SESSION['speech'];	
}
else 
{ 
?>
<html>
<tr>
  <td>&nbsp;
    <p>&nbsp;
    <p>&nbsp;
    <p></td>
</tr>
<table align="center" border="1" width="400" height="200">
    <td align="center" valign="center">You must log in at the <a href="../index.php">Student Portal</a> to see<br />
      your quiz list.</td>
</table>
</html>
<?php exit(); 
} 
include_once "../real_conn/real_conn.php";
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE id='$id'"); 
$login_check = mysql_num_rows($sql);
if($login_check > 0){ 
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){ 
        // Get member data into a session variable
        $egroup = $row["egroup"];
        $_SESSION['egroup'] = $egroup; 
		
        $userPwd = $row["userPwd"]; 
      $_SESSION['userPwd'] = $userPwd;  
		
        $given = $row["given"]; 
      $_SESSION['given'] = $given;  
		
        $avatar = $row["avatar"]; 
      $_SESSION['avatar'] = $avatar;  
		
        $permit = $row["permit"]; 
      $_SESSION['permit'] = $permit;  
		
        $review = $row["review"]; 
      $_SESSION['review'] = $review;

	}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<!--
    Base template (without user's data) checked by http://validator.w3.org : "This page is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional"
    -->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Student Quiz Record</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<!--[if IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" href="style.ie6.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]><link rel="stylesheet" href="style.ie7.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /><![endif]-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="script.js"></script>
<script Language = "JavaScript">

	function OpenWin1()
	{
		window.open("avatar/sel_avatar.php", "Child",'width=550,height=560,right=30,top=20,scrollbar=yes,resize=yes');
		
	}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="art-main">
  <div class="art-sheet">
    <div class="art-sheet-tl"></div>
    <div class="art-sheet-tr"></div>
    <div class="art-sheet-bl"></div>
    <div class="art-sheet-br"></div>
    <div class="art-sheet-tc"></div>
    <div class="art-sheet-bc"></div>
    <div class="art-sheet-cl"></div>
    <div class="art-sheet-cr"></div>
    <div class="art-sheet-cc"></div>
    <div class="art-sheet-body">
      <div class="art-header">
        <div class="art-header-center">
          <div class="art-header-png"></div>
          <div class="art-header-jpeg"></div>
        </div>
        <div class="art-logo">
          <h1 id="name-text" class="art-logo-name"><a href="#">Safety Testing Online</a></h1>
          <h2 id="slogan-text" class="art-logo-text">Safety - The Most Valuable Insurance.</h2>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="art-nav">
        <div class="l"></div>
        <div class="r"></div>
        <ul class="art-menu">
          <li> <a href="stud_logout.php"><span class="l"></span><span class="r"></span><span class="t">Log Out</span></a></li>
          <li>
            <?php 					
			    if ($permit != 0) 
				$yes = "<a href=\"#\" onClick=\"window.open ('avatar/sel_avatar.php', 'mywindow','height=775, width=900, left=30, right=30,top=20, scrollbars');\"><span class=\"t\">SELECT YOUR AVATAR";
				echo $yes;					
				if ($permit != 1)
				echo ""; 
				?>
            </span></a> </li>
          <li> <a href="student_do_quiz.php"><span class="l"></span><span class="r"></span><span class="t">Quiz Page</span></a></li>
          <li> <a href="web_certificate/certificate.php" target="_blank"><span class="l"></span><span class="r"></span><span class="t">Certificate</span></a></li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="art-content-layout">
      <div class="art-content-layout-row">
        <div class="art-layout-cell art-content">
          <div class="art-post">
            <div class="art-post-tl"></div>
            <div class="art-post-tr"></div>
            <div class="art-post-bl"></div>
            <div class="art-post-br"></div>
            <div class="art-post-tc"></div>
            <div class="art-post-bc"></div>
            <div class="art-post-cl"></div>
            <div class="art-post-cr"></div>
            <div class="art-post-cc"></div>
            <div class="art-post-body"></div>
            <div class="art-post-bl"></div>
            <div class="art-post-br"></div>
            <div class="art-post-tc"></div>
            <div class="art-post-bc"></div>
            <div class="art-post-cl"></div>
            <div class="art-post-cr"></div>
            <div class="art-post-cc"></div>
            <div class="art-post-body">
              <div class="art-post-inner art-article">
                <table style="text-align:center" width="778" border="0" >
                  <tr>
                    <td width="120" style="text-align:left" ROWSPAN="2"><?php
					 if ($permit != '0') 
                     $img = "<img src='avatar/av/".$avatar."' height=\"100\" width=\"100\" />";
                     echo $img;
					 ?>
                      </font></td>
                    <td width="650" style="text-align:left"><font size="+1"><?php echo "$userCollege"; ?> Safety Testing.</font></td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr>
                    <td width="650" style="text-align:left">Hi <?php echo "$given"; ?>. Your quiz results are shown below. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="student_do_quiz.php?id=" target="_self">Return to your Quiz Page</a></font></td>
                  </tr>
                </table>
                <hr />
                <table width="778">
                  <tr>
                    <td width="13"></td>
                    <td width="140" style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" >QUIZ NAME</td>
                    <td width="13"></td>
                    <td width="100" style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" >DATE</td>
                    <td width="13"></td>
                    <td width="100" style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" >SUCCESS</td>
                    <td width="13"></td>
                    <td width="100" style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" >TRY AGAIN</td>
                    <td width="13"></td>
                    <td width="100" style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" >
                    <?php 					
			    if ($review != 0) {
				$yes2 = "REVIEW";}
				echo $yes2;					
				if ($review != 1)
				echo ""; 
				?>
                    </td>
                    <td width="13"></td>
                    <td width="80" style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" >SCORE</td>
                    <td width="13"></td>
                  </tr>
                </table>
                <?php
$query1 = mysql_query("SELECT quizTitle, passState, userScore, totalScore, DATE_FORMAT(userDate,'%b %e, %Y') AS userDate FROM quiz WHERE managerId = '$managerId' AND userId = '$userId' ORDER BY quizTitle ASC, passState DESC, userDate DESC ");
?>
                <table width="778" style="font-size:16px">
                  <tr>
                    <?php
	while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query1))
	{
?>
                    <td width="13"></td>
                    <td width="140" style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left; font-size:12px;"><?php $quizTitle = "{$row[quizTitle]}"; $_GET['quiztitle']=$quizTitle; echo "{$row['quizTitle']} <br />\n"; ?></td>
                    <td width="13"></td>
                    <td width="100" style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; font-size:12px;"><?php echo "{$row['userDate']} <br />\n"; ?></td>
                    <td width="23"></td>
                    <td width="100" style="text-align:center;"><?php if ("{$row['passState']}" == 1) {echo "<img src=' ../wood/wood_tool_images/tick2.png' /><br />\n";}?></td>
                    <td width="13"></td>
                    <td width="100" style="text-align:center;"><?php if ("{$row['passState']}" == 0) {echo "<img src=' ../wood/wood_tool_images/cross2.png' /><br />\n";} ?></td>
                    <td width="13"></td>
                    <td width="100" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:baseline font-size:10px; text-decoration:underline; color:#06F;">
					
					<?php
                    //if ($review != 0) 
				//$yes2 =  
                    
					if ("{$row['passState']}" == 0) {echo "<a href='javascript:void(0);'NAME='var basestring='window'+new Date().getTime();' title=' Results of quiz 'onClick=window.open('check/check.php?quizTitle=". urlencode($quizTitle) ."','width=1100,height=510,resizable=yes,menubar=no,0,status=0,scrollbars=1');><p>Check your answers</p></a><br />\n";} 
                    
                   
				//echo $yes2;					
				//if ($review != 1)
				//echo "";
				?>
                    
                    </td>
                    <td width="13"></td>
                    <td width="80" style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; font-size:12px;"><?php echo "{$row['userScore']}".'/'."{$row['totalScore']} <br />\n"; ?></td>
                    <td width="13" style="text-align:center; font-size:10px;"></td>
                  </tr>
                  <?php 
	}
        
      
?>
                </table>
                <hr />
                <!-- /article-content -->
              </div>
              <div class="cleared"></div>
            </div>
            <div class="cleared"></div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="cleared"></div>
  <div class="art-footer">
    <div class="art-footer-inner">
      <div class="art-footer-text">
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 //This line gets the current time off the server
 $year= date("Y",$time); 
 //This line formats it to display just the year
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 //this line prints out the copyright date range, you need to edit 2010 to be your opening year
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      </div>
      <div class="art-footer-background"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="cleared"></div>
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The code in question is at 217 to 227.

are you able to run page.
If yes then you must view source and look where the quotes are misplaced.

I found a simple solution. I created a second file with the alternative settings, and just made the link to the files conditional.

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