$url = "<a href =\".$url."\">.HtmlEntities($url)."\">".</a>"; It appears the parse error is at the end of your opening link tag, so PHP doesn't know what >.HtmlEntities($url) means. I'm at work so I can't test it, but that appears the culprit to me. $url = "<a href=\"$url\">" . HtmlEntities($url) . "</a>"; should suffice. Martin Austin Mário Gamito <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx> 03/30/2005 07:51 AM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: Subject: Parsing... the hell of PHP Hi, I'm trying to transform a url taken from the DB from "plain text", to the same, but linkable url. All i get is parse errors and alike. Here is my last (of many) attempt: $url = "<a href =\".$url."\">.HtmlEntities($url)."\">".</a>"; A warning and a parse error is what i get. Can't get there :( Any help would be apreciated. Warm regards, Mário Gamito -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php