hyper link showing outside of table - php

Question

I am trying to show a table as per the screen shot below.
Screen Shot
The goal is to have the 'folder' image as a clickable link getting the link data from the MySql table.
However, when i try to do this (step by step) the hyperlinks sit outside the table. When i add tags around the following
echo ''.$row['file'].'' ;
like this
echo "<td>" ''.$row['file'].'' "</td>";
The subsequent PHP page will not load
// Attempt select query execution
$sql = "SELECT * FROM versioncontrol";
if($result = mysqli_query($link, $sql)){
if(mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0){
echo "<table class='table table-bordered table-striped'>";
echo "<thead>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<th>Image Link</th>";
echo "<th>Manual Link File</th>";
echo "<th>Operating Procedure ID</th>";
echo "<th>Operating Procedure Name</th>";
echo "<th>Operating Procedure Version</th>";
echo "<th>Upload Date and Time</th>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "</thead>";
echo "<tbody>";
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>
<a href=\"sopversioncontrolKL001.php" . $record['images'] . "\" >
<img src=\"images/document.jpg" . $record['images'] . "\" height=\"30\"
/></a></td>";
echo ''.$row['file'].'' ;
echo "<td>" . $row['SOP_ID'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['SOP_Name'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['SOP_Version'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['reg_date'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</tbody>";
echo "</table>";
// Free result set
mysqli_free_result($result);
} else{
echo "<p class='lead'><em>No records were found.</em></p>";
}
} else{
echo "ERROR: Could not able to execute $sql. " . mysqli_error($link);
}
// Close connection

Answer 1

echo "<td>" ''.$row['file'].'' "</td>";
The subsequent PHP page will not load
Well, it wouldn't. That's a syntax error.
After echo "<td>" you need to have either a ; or an operator.
You can't just run straight into another string literal.
Put the <td> and </td> inside the string literals you already have.
echo '<td>'.$row['file'].'</td>';
Better yet, get rid of the enormous pile of echo statements and just output HTML.
?>
...
<td><?php echo $row['file']; ?></td>
...
<?php
(You should probably make use of htmlspecialchars to protect yourself against stored XSS attacks too).