how to get $link working?

hi
i'm again with parse errors. How should the code below be to work?

<?php 
$link="http://adsense.com/clicks.php";

?>
<a href=<? php $link  ?> > <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<font color="#008000" onmouseover=" " > title  </font><br>
<font color="#008000" >description</font><br>
<font color="#008000" >  displayurl</font>
</td></a>

PHP:

 

delete the space between '<?' and 'php'

 

And add an "echo".

 

This code works

<?$link="http://adsense.com/clicks.php";?>
<a href="<?print $link;?>"> 
 <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
  <font color="#008000" onmouseover=" ">title</font><br>
  <font color="#008000">description</font><br>
  <font color="#008000">displayurl</font>
 </td>
</a>

Code (markup):

and this also ...

<?$link="http://adsense.com/clicks.php";?>
<a href="<?print $link;?>"> 
 <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
  <font color="#008000" onmouseover=" ">title</font><br>
  <font color="#008000">
   description<br>
   displayurl
  </font>
 </td>
</a>

Code (markup):

 

It isn't all the way proper though.

<?php
$link="http://adsense.com/clicks.php";
?>
<a href="<?php print $link;?>"> 
 <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
  <font color="#008000" onmouseover=" ">title</font><br>
  <font color="#008000">
   description<br>
   displayurl
  </font>
 </td>
</a>

Code (markup):

or

<?php
$link="http://adsense.com/clicks.php";
?>
<a href="<?php echo $link;?>"> 
 <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
  <font color="#008000" onmouseover=" ">title</font><br>
  <font color="#008000">
   description<br>
   displayurl
  </font>
 </td>
</a>

Code (markup):

 

Your can write this way

<?=$link?>

PHP:

to print any variable

 

It's not proper though.

 

What do you mean by "not proper"?

 

It's not proper because this method needs short tags to be enabled in php.ini, and it can be disabled, which would it prevent from working.

 

I know that, but I still wouldn't say it's "not proper" though. Considering the page is mostly HTML, it's more readable than using

<a href="<?php print $link;?>">

HTML:

 

Exactly what I mean.