How to properly add a PHP tag inside anchor link on PUG

Question

This is what i have done:

    <a href="http://<?php echo $link; ?>/thelink.php">thelink</a>

PUG compiles to:

 <a href="http://&lt;?php echo $link; ?&gt;/thelink.php">thelink</a>

My problem are "&lt" and "&gt". How can i properly compile it to?:

 <a href="http://<?php echo $link; ?>/thelink.php">thelink</a>

Answer 1

I recommend using Phug when using Pug with PHP.

You can then use PHP variables (and objects) within PHP pretty easily. See this example:

// PHP
mixin link($href, $name)
   a(href=$href)&attributes($attributes)= $name

+link('/foo', 'foo')(class="btn")

PHUG transforms this to:

// HTML
<a class="btn" href="/foo">foo</a>

You can read more about this specific example in the documentation .

Answer 2

Use "!" before "=" :

a(href!="http://<?php echo $link; ?>/thelink.php") thelink