help with conditional hyperlinks

Hi all. I need some help creating a link that goes to a page depending upon a variable in a database. Here is sample code I am trying to make work:

<cfquery ""

<cfquery name="rsgetAvailable"
    datasource="name" username="name" password="pw">
    SELECT variable
FROM table
</cfquery>

<cfset variable eq "">

<cfif variable eq "on">

<a href="http://360buyers.com/threesixty/studentrentals_Search.cfm" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('SearchbyListing','','../Artwork/By Listing_Over.png',1)"><img src="../Artwork/By Listing_Live.png" alt="Search by Listing" name="SearchbyListing" width="250" height="150" border="0" id="SearchbyListing" /></a>

<cfelse>

<a href="http://360buyers.com/threesixty/studentrentals_Search sa.cfm" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('SearchbyListing','','../Artwork/By Listing_Over.png',1)"><img src="../Artwork/By Listing_Live.png" alt="Search by Listing" name="SearchbyListing" width="250" height="150" border="0" id="SearchbyListing" /></a>

<cfif>

Seems like this should work but is does not.

Can anyone help by identifying the problem(s)

Thank you much