What and where is %s in english.php?

[MarcellaE]

I want to create a link elsewhere in my store that carries over the session ID and %s seems to do that but I can't use that anywhere else in the store.

Creating such a link elsewhere only displays:

 

http://www.mydomain.com/store/catalog/%s?o...96292dfbd03cddc

 

Any thoughts how to do this?

[Guest]

The only time I've seen the "%s" used is when using sprintf: eg

 

		<?php 

		$url = 'www.google.com';
		$name = 'Google';
		$desc = 'Google Search Engine';

		define('TEXT_INFORMATION', 'For more information, please visit <a href="http://%s">%s</a> ("%s").');

		echo sprintf(TEXT_INFORMATION, $url, $name, $desc);

	?>

 

Will output:

 

For more information, please visit Google ("Google Search Engine").

 

 

Breakdown:

 

sprintf('the line containing the %s', 'the first %s value', 'the second %s value', 'the third %s value');