creating HTML and PHP hyperlink text

[eluser]pickupman[/eluser]
Its you may have one of the lines of code out of order.

Code:

<div id="container">
   <h1>Select a Faculty</h1><br>    
    &lt;?php
    foreach($faculties as $row){
     echo '<a class="faculty_'.$row-&gt;facultyID.'" href="'. $row-&gt;facultyID.'">';
     echo '<b>'.$row->facultyName.'</b><br/>';
     echo '<br/>';    
    }
    ?&gt;
    </a>
  </div>

If you are wanting to return an id on click, but not change the page, you will need to use javascript. Likely jQuery to attach to the click event. Then use a regular expression to get the id from the class string.

Code:

$("a[class^='faculty_']").click(function(event){
   var mystr = $(this).attr('class');
   var id = mystr.replace(/mystr/ig, 'faculty_');
   alert(id);
    event.preventDefault();
});

Didn't test javascript, but should be close enough.