Re: break out of <?php... midway thru' an if { } statement ?

If I'm understanding the question right, yes you can. if($AlertUser2success != 0) { ?> <div class="pg_DIVmainText"> <img class="divBGgradient" style="" src="images/BehindBox01.png" alt="" /> <div> <?php include(); ?> </div> </div> <?php } Regards, -Josh ____________________________________ Joshua Kehn | Josh.Kehn@gmail.com http://joshuakehn.com On Oct 11, 2010, at 7:05 PM, Govinda wrote: > Hi everyone, > > ------------------------------------- newbie preface ------------------------------------- > I finally got some time to come back to learning a little more PHP... and I am looking forward > to lots more in coming months, with any luck. Anyway, as I was working towards the last deadline > with the PHP project I was working on, I uncovered several issues I did not know the answer to.. and > I just hacked around them to avoid taking more time while I was under the clock/meter. Now on my > own time, I want to ask, so I learn more deeply what was more ideal understanding/technique. > ------------------------------------- /newbie preface ------------------------------------- > > Here's one of those Q's: > > I was working on a system ("MoveableType", A.K.A. "MT") that writes db data > to static text files (web pages) whenever the CMS admin tells it to "publish". That > system writes out the PHP code that I tell it to, in each page of the site. There was one place in > my PHP code (marked with ***MT***, below) where I needed to include a chunk of data that would not > be known (or written out) until the admin next published the page (i.e. I could not include the code > inline). I needed to display it only in case of a PHP comparison evaluating to true. I was > tempted to break out of PHP at that point, and then go back into PHP within that ***MT*** block > itself, _only_ when/where in the few places that block needs PHP.. in order to reduce the head > pressure (of the less-technical admin using the MT CMS) having to wade through so many PHP > print/echo statements (I could not get heredoc to work right, but that is another topic/post ;-). > But despite the temptation, I did not attempt that because I thought it might break the logic of the > if { } . On the other hand, I vaguely remember reading something that made me think something like > that is possible.. but I don't know where I saw it. > > To better summarize my Q: > > could the below "<mt:Var name="PageMoreNoCRLF">" (which contains a > long block of HTML sprinkled with a little PHP whose contents are known only at runtime) be *broken > out of* of the <?php ... ?> wrapper that surrounds the if { } statement, and have it still > only get displayed on the final webpage when the if { } statement evaluates to true? The reason I > want that is so that I can just keep the HTML straight and simple in that MT block, instead of using > PHP string-printing statements to spit out it's mostly-pure-HTML contents. The admin using the > system is using a WYSIWYG HTML editable textarea interface, kind of like FCKEditor. > > if($AlertUser2success != 0) { > echo '<div class="pg_DIVmainText">'."\n"; > echo '<img class="divBGgradient" style="" > src="images/BehindBox01.png" alt="" />'."\n"; > echo '<div>'."\n"; > /*--- here is the ***MT*** block/include ---> ---*/ <mt:Var > name="PageMoreNoCRLF"> > echo '</div>'."\n"; > echo '</div>'."\n"; > } else { > ... > > ------------ > Govinda > govinda(DOT)webdnatalk(AT)gmail(DOT)com > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >