Re: Stuffing code into variable

On Feb 3, 2007, at 10:04 PM, Paul Novitski wrote:

On Feb 3, 2007, at 9:09 PM, Albert Padley wrote:

I have an echo statement that I use in conjunction with a MySQL query. echo "<tr>\n<td class=\"tabletext\">" . $row['time'] . "</td>\n<td class=\"tabletext\">" . $row['field'] . "</td>\n<td class= \"tabletext\">" . $row['division'] . "</td>\n"; This works perfectly fine. However, I will be using the same code numerous times on the page and wanted to stuff it all into a variable. At this point I can't remember the proper syntax and quoting to get this right. Any takers?

At 2/3/2007 08:09 PM, Christopher Weldon wrote:

You could always make it a function...ie: function drawTableRow($sqlRow) {

    return "<tr>\n<td class=\"tabletext\">". $sqlRow['time'] ."</td> \n<td class=\"tabletext\">".$row['field']."</td>"; // Simplified for

time purposes. }

Good suggestion. I like heredoc's clean presentation: __________________________________ function drawTableRow($sqlrow) {

    return <<<_

<tr>

        <td class="tabletext">{$sqlrow['time']}</td>
        <td class="tabletext">{$sqlrow['field']}</td>
        <td class="tabletext">{$sqlrow['division']}</td>

</tr> _; } __________________________________ By the way, if every cell in every row is class "tabletext" why have a class at all? You could simply apply the desired styles to the td element. Regards, Paul I'm using heredoc elsewhere on the page so that's a good idea.

As far as the CSS on the <td>, other cells in the table have different styling. Al