Button Link that links to external php file

I hope this makes sense, I'm new to this, Here is my code:

<p class="buttons-block">
<a href="???????" class="btn btn-large btn-block btn-primary">Suggest Listing</a>
</p>

This is the button code, I need to link to a Suggest listing page and get the category they are on when they click it.

The link that normally deals with this takes current category when someone clicks submit listing.

The page that this deals with in the admin panel has an option to use external file and it uses /suggest-listing.php?cid={$cid} how can I use the button above and still get current category. cheers for your help

 

<a href="/suggest-listing.php?cid=<?php echo $cid;?>">Suggest Listing</a>

 

That gives me 403.htm error

 

And this is the link in the toolbar afterward

http://www.bawd.co.nz/suggest-listing.php?cid=%3C?php%20echo%20$cid;?%3E

Code (markup):

 

Try this:

<a href="/suggest-listing.php?cid={$cid}">Suggest Listing</a>

HTML:

 

1) What makes the text "Suggest Listing" a paragraph? Answer, it isn't -- there is no grammatical or structural reason for that to be inside a P.

2) It probably also doesn't need FOUR classes that appear to be completely presentational -- that might as well be HTML 3.2 / presentational markup (no matter what the re-re's writing skins for turdpress or doomla might tell you)

though really I can't even make sense out of what you are asking -- put the link you want in the anchor... I'm not certain how/why you'd be having trouble doing that... though I suspect this tiny snippet isn't telling us the whole story since we don't know if you're inside echo like a good little dooby, how/if you need to handle quotes, or if you need to open and close PHP every five characters like the garbage code VideoWhisperer posted.

You've basically given us a half inch corner ripped off a notebook page to diagnose a problem with the entire notebook -- and the answers so far reflect this.

 

This is the answer I was looking for: http://www.bawd.co.nz/suggest-listing.php?cid={$category.id}

 

Then it would have been nice if you had at least told us that you were using some kind of templating engine.

 

No need to be like that, I did say in the very first sentence I'm new to this, so i had no idea about that information.

 

You were asking us to translate something into another language - without telling us what language. Not an exact analogy, but close. You're asking for a PHP solution to a templating engine (which isn't PHP, it' a different language) question. How were we supposed to know that you wanted the answer as template code, not PHP code?

 

Are you blind or just thick, I am completely new to this, i dont know about template code or php code I was asking what I thought was a simple question, obviously it wasnt simple because I missed information that I didnt know about, my apologies that my noobyness got you irate