Re: goto

maybe switch() would be of some use? Your could save the values for $type in an array and look them up to get a numbe to use with switch(). You can also have a "case else" with switch. "Stephen Brewster" <steve@cite.co.uk> wrote in message news:20020613122618.71214.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I am wirting a code seperation engine for PHP, the idea of which is it will > remove the need for me to have to build the majority of the websites at my > company. The designers will be able to build the html in dreamweaver or > similar and then insert custom tags into their code. The engine will parse > the code and insert the necessary PHP code. For the most part this engine is > working. However under some cirtumstances (like the one shown below) I need > to be able to perfom a loop or if statement. This is proving to be > incredably difficult since I would end up with code like below. For obvious > reasons the compiler does not like this code. This would be simple if PHP > had GOTO's. Does anyone know of a way around this situation? > > HTML > ---- > <table> > <products type="loop"> > <tr> > <td><products type="text" field="name"></td> > <td><products type="text" field="price"></td> > </tr> > <products type="endloop"> > </tr> > > > PHP > --- > > if($type == 'LOOP') { > $sql = 'SELECT * FROM products'; > $result = mysql_query($sql, $db); > $record = $mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC); > { > } > > if($type == 'TEXT') > echo($record[$field]); > > if($type == 'ENDLOOP') { > } > } > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Stephen Brewster > Email: steve@cite.co.uk > Tel: 0116 2335545 > Mobile: 07776 475849 > ICQ: 383095 > ------------------------------------------------------ > > UNIX SEX > unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; umount; sleep > > >