php switch case hyperlink "title"

[LloydFarrell]

hi all,

Im trying to add a "title" to a switch case statement below, but for some reason im unable to complete, what I thought was a simple task.
Hope someone can help and explaine the reasons why
cheers, Lloyd

switch($ad)
{
	case "add1.gif";
	header("Location: http://www.google.co.uk");	
	break;

	case "add2.gif";
	header("Location: http://www.youtube.com");	
	break;

[amd_k8]

The "case" end with : not ;

switch($ad)
{
	case "add1.gif":
	header("Location: http://www.google.co.uk");	
	break;
 
	case "add2.gif":
	header("Location: http://www.youtube.com");	
	break;
}

[LloydFarrell]

I dont understand what you mean ????

Do you mean, its not possible ???

The "case" end with : not ;

switch($ad)
{
	case "add1.gif":
	header("Location: http://www.google.co.uk");	
	break;
 
	case "add2.gif":
	header("Location: http://www.youtube.com");	
	break;
}

[diafol]

Jeez Luis - amd_k8 just told you to place a colon at the end of your case syntax as opposed to ending with a semi-colon.

Do you mean, its not possible ???

It's not possible for you to replace a semi-colon with a colon??? *sigh*

[LloydFarrell]

Doh.... I do say sorry for missing that, what a complete a$$......

I have tried adding a "title" tag in many ways but still missing the point,

I have tried the following

case "add1.gif" title='test':
	header("Location: http://www.google.co.uk");	
	break;

case "add1.gif":
	header("Location: http://www.google.co.uk" title='test');	
	break;

case "add1.gif":
                title="test";
	header("Location: http://www.google.co.uk" title='test');	
	break;

case "add1.gif":
                title="test":
	header("Location: http://www.google.co.uk");	
	break;
case "add1.gif":
	header("Location: http://www.google.co.uk");	
                title="test":	
                break;

Im not sure if theres anyother place to place the title, any pointers on this would be great

[Lsmjudoka]

What exactly are you trying to accomplish with the "title" statement?

[diafol]

The header() is usually a redirecting function, so title will not show up anywhere. Unless you have a 'delay' that shows some text before redirect.

header('Refresh: 5; url=http://www.mysite.com/');
echo $title . " You will be redirected in 5 seconds";

Note that url parameters in headers should be FULL urls including the 'http://' bit.

[LloydFarrell]

The header() is usually a redirecting function, so title will not show up anywhere. Unless you have a 'delay' that shows some text before redirect.

header('Refresh: 5; url=http://www.mysite.com/');
echo $title . " You will be redirected in 5 seconds";

Note that url parameters in headers should be FULL urls including the 'http://' bit.

Hi, thanks for posting, I have just learnt a new piece of code from you.

What I am trying to do, Is when someone hovers over the img that is displayed, Id like it to show a "title text tag" before the user clicks the image to go to the url ??

Thanks for your input,

Lloyd

[Lsmjudoka]

That needs to be done in the html <img> tag, PHP's "header" function doesn't do that. Use the "title" attribute, example:

<img src="ad1.jpg" title="Ad description here" />

Edit: Additionally, unless there's a specific reason you need to use a header for the link you would be just as well off with using an image link like this:

<a href="http://www.google.co.uk"><img src="ad1.jpg" title="Ad description here" /></a>

[diafol]

Yeah, è molto confuso. I can't understand why you'd need to use header. Just a normal html link should suffice - with or without image.

[syamsasi]

title for the image should be with <img src="" title="" /> ... "Swich" statement execute only from server side ( in this case you can use only after the user click on that image ) ... For displaying title at the hover time , you can go for specifying title with <img > or javascript or advanced AJAX scripts ...
Refer the following urls for switch case
http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php
http://www.phpmysqlbrain.com/syntax/php-switch-case/
http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_switch.asp