codeigniter anchor with image

Question

I am trying to use the codeigniter anchor as a link that calls a method to delete a row in my database.

<?php echo anchor("masterdata/delete_customer/$row->id",$row->customer_name) ?>

This works great but I want to replace the text with an image. something like:

<?php echo anchor('masterdata/delete_customer/$row->id',img(array('src'=>'images/delete_icon.png','border'=>'0','alt'=>'Delete'))); ?>

The above syntax produces an error:

The URI you submitted has disallowed characters.

In addition, is it possible to replace the masterdata controller path with a base_url path? baseurl/masterdata/delete_customer...

Many thanks as always,

Answer 1

The problem in your example code is the second example uses single quote around the first paramater with the php variable inside. It should be:

<?php echo anchor('masterdata/delete_customer/'.$row->id, img(array('src'=>'images/delete_icon.png','border'=>'0','alt'=>'Delete'))); ?>

Or swapped to the double quotes.