what is wrong with this php href tag

I am new to php and cannot figure out what is wrong with this php tag, gives me a parser error, i know there is a quote that i have to add or escape a quote but i cannot get it where to do that

<?php echo "<a href=\"index.php?pageid=".$page_id. "&pagename=".$page_name. title=\" .$page_name. "\" class=\"navText\">".$page_name."</a>";?>

Code (markup):

anyhelp will be appreciated.

 

sorry some how i created multiple posts was not intending to do that. If moderators can close the other two that got created in error,

 

<?php echo "<a href=\"index.php?pageid=".$page_id."&pagename=".$page_name."\" title=\"".$page_name. "\" class=\"navText\">".$page_name."</a>";?>

PHP:

try this.

 

worked like a charm thank you very much

 

Instead of putting in all of those backslashes, use single quotes on the outside.

<?php
	echo '<a href="index.php?pageid='.$page_id.'&pagename='.$page_name.'" title="' .$page_name. '" class="navText">'.$page_name.'</a>';
?>

PHP:

See how much cleaner that looks?

 

yes it does thanks

 

Almost as clean as using sprintf.

<?php
	echo sprintf('<a href="index.php?pageid=%1$s&pagename=%2$s" title="%2$s" class="navText">%2$s</a>', $page_id, $page_name);
?>

PHP:

 

hmm sprintf seems pretty clean too, can i add more parameters or variables and print them as %3$s etc

 

sprintf is just plain pimptacular.
http://www.php.net/sprintf