Hi,
I have a situation where I have a large block of HTML code that is
conditionally displayed. In effect I have:
html page
some html
<?php
if (bShowBlock)
{
//LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
}
else
{
//SOME OTHER LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
}
some more html
What is the quickest and easiest way to do this? Echoing is not an
option as I would have to escape eveything in the HTML blocks.
Thanks,
Lister 7 13185
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Hi,
I have a situation where I have a large block of HTML code that is
conditionally displayed. In effect I have:
html page
some html
I usually do it like so:
<?php if (bShowBlock){ ?>
LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
<?php } else { ?>
SOME OTHER LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
<? } ?>
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lister wrote:
Hi,
I have a situation where I have a large block of HTML code that is
conditionally displayed. In effect I have:
html page
some html
<?php
if (bShowBlock)
{
//LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
}
else
{
//SOME OTHER LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
}
some more html
What is the quickest and easiest way to do this? Echoing is not an
option as I would have to escape eveything in the HTML blocks.
Thanks,
Lister
Hi Lister,
Just jump out of PHP, like this:
<?php
if (bShowBlock) {
?>
Use plain html here
<?php
} else {
?>
Use plain html here
<?php
}
?>
Alternatively you can include a file that contains the large piece of html,
in which case you just use something like :
require 'myLargeHTML1.h tml';
Regards,
Erwin Moller
D'oh!
Thanks guys.
For some reason I thought I wouldn't be able to drop out of PHP half
way through a conditional.
Many thanks.
Kimmo Laine wrote:
<?php if (bShowBlock){ ?>
LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
<?php } else { ?>
SOME OTHER LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
<? } ?>
Personally, I've never found that very aesthetically pleasing. I prefer
things between '<?php' and '?>' to seem to make sense on their own (even
if they do, say, access functions or variables defined elsewhere).
Slightly nicer looking are:
<?php
include (bShowBlock ? 'foo.html' : 'bar.html');
?>
or, if you don't want to have the blocks of HTML stored in external files,
you could use output buffering, like so:
<?php
ob_start();
?>
LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
<?php
$foo = ob_get_clean();
ob_start();
?>
SOME OTHER LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
<?php
$bar = ob_get_clean();
print (bShowBlock ? $foo : $bar);
?>
However, if the "large blocks of HTML" actually contain some PHP code, be
aware that the latter of these two will execute both sets of code fully.
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lister wrote:
Hi,
I have a situation where I have a large block of HTML code that is
conditionally displayed. In effect I have:
html page
some html
<?php
if (bShowBlock)
{
//LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
}
else
{
//SOME OTHER LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
}
some more html
What is the quickest and easiest way to do this? Echoing is not an
option as I would have to escape eveything in the HTML blocks.
Thanks,
Lister
If you wish to stay in PHP:
echo <<<endofecho
//LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
//does not have to be escaped
// and php vars work
endofecho;
The endofecho must appear on a line by itself without any whitespace and
is case sensitve. It can be hard to debug an error if you have a typo
in the end marker.
Mark B.
lister wrote:
Hi,
I have a situation where I have a large block of HTML code that is
conditionally displayed. In effect I have:
html page
some html
<?php
if (bShowBlock)
{
//LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
}
else
{
//SOME OTHER LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
}
some more html
What is the quickest and easiest way to do this? Echoing is not an
option as I would have to escape eveything in the HTML blocks.
A further method that can be useful is to use conditionals on the css
display property. e.g
<?php if(conditionA){ $display="block ;"}
elseif (conditionB) {$display="none ;"}
?>
<div style="<php echo $display;?>">
BLOCK OF MARKUP
</div>
Louise
boclair wrote:
A further method that can be useful is to use conditionals on the css
display property. e.g
<?php if(conditionA){ $display="block ;"}
elseif (conditionB) {$display="none ;"}
?>
<div style="<php echo $display;?>">
BLOCK OF MARKUP
</div>
Doesn't work in non-CSS aware browsers. e.g. older browsers, text
browsers, search engine spiders, many mobile phones. And you waste
bandwidth.
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