Conditional display of an item

[sharmilah]

Hi All

Thanks for the replies to my previous questions. I have some code down there to enable editing of a field called 'Usr_Surname' if the value of the variable 'authorise' is one . If the variable authorise is any other value than one I want to display the field 'Usr_Surname' without allowing users to edit it. The code is not working. I need some help. Thanks

[PHP]</tr>
<tr>
<td class="hr"><? echo htmlspecialchars("Surname")."&nbsp;" ?></td>
<td class="dr"><? if ($authorise=='1') ?><textarea cols="35" rows="4" name="Usr_Surname" maxlength="100"><? echo str_replace('"', '&quot;', trim($row["Usr_Surname"])) ?></textarea>
<? else echo trim($row["Usr_Surname"]) ?></td>
</tr>
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[pbmods]

Heya, sharmilah.

If the variable authorise is any other value than one I want to display the field 'Usr_Surname' without allowing users to edit it. The code is not working. I need some help.

Try using a PHP echo statement:

<?php
if ($authorise=='1')
    echo '<textarea cols="35" rows="4" name="Usr_Surname" maxlength="100">' . htmlspecialchars(trim($row["Usr_Surname"])) . '</textarea>';
?>
 

If this doesn't work, I'd check to make sure $authorise actually has a value (did you mean $authorize?).

PS. As a sidenote:

<? echo htmlspecialchars("Surname")."&nbsp;" ?>
 
// Wouldn't this do the same thing?
Surname&nbsp;