Appending a html tag to php variable <p>I am newbie to php, just starting learning it, while working with wordpress.</p> <p>I want to add html code to a php variable, a anchor tag link actually. First i splitted the text using <code>substr()</code>, and now i want to append a anchor tag at the end of post.</p> <pre><code>$json['timeline']['date'][$i]['text'] = substr(strip_tags($post-&gt;post_content), 0, 400)+"&lt;a href='#'&gt;Read more..&lt;/"; </code></pre> <p>Well, I believe this is not the right way. Can anyone please guide me?</p>