how do i echo a link with text?

sorry if the title didnt make sence

but what i want to do is
in html you make a link and have a name

<a href="http://www.link.php">LINK NAME</a>

HTML:

but how do i do that in php
i am trying to get the url that comes from the database to be a link of the title

echo $row['article_name'];
echo "</td></tr><tr><td>"; 
echo $row['url'];

PHP:

so i want the ['url'] to be a link and the ['article name'] to be the text over it.

 

echo "<a href=\"". $row['url'] ."\">". $row['article_name'] ."</a>";

Code (markup):

The above should work *I think*. I'm still getting to grips with it myself, but I believe that's correct.

 

This is correct. I usually use alrternate quotes to do away with those ugly looking slashes though:

echo '<a href="'. $row['url'] .'">'. $row['article_name'] .'</a>';

Code (markup):

 

Ah, so that allows me to not escape quotes. I need to visit this section more often

 

My personal preferance would be:

echo "<a href=\"{$row['url']}\">{$row['article_name']}</a>";

PHP: