Quick PHP echo help

Question

What is wrong with this?

echo '<a title="Last Chance" href="'.the_permalink().'" class="status open">Last Chance</a>';

As it's putting the the_permalink() before the <a instead of inside it.

Answer 1

Wordpress often echo's the content out of the function instead of returning it.

Use get_permalink() instead.

echo '<a title="Last Chance" href="'.get_permalink().'" class="status open">Last Chance</a>';

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_permalink http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_permalink