Macro in PHP ?

[Pjotr Wedersteers]

Hello,

I am curious if there is a solution for the following in PHP4:
I often echo something to my browser during tests. I often forget to add a
<BR> to the end of the echo command.
Is it possible to use something like a mcro in C++ to have a command I can
use like echo but which automatically adds the <br> ?
Or is there a command that does that for me ?
Alternatively I could write a function of course, but then brackets come in
to play as well.

TIA
Pjotr

[Colin McKinnon]

Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:

Hello,

I am curious if there is a solution for the following in PHP4:
I often echo something to my browser during tests. I often forget to add a
<BR> to the end of the echo command.
Is it possible to use something like a mcro in C++ to have a command I can
use like echo but which automatically adds the <br> ?
Or is there a command that does that for me ?
Alternatively I could write a function of course, but then brackets come
in to play as well.

There are several ways. Easiest would be to use nl2br()

HTH

C.

[Pjotr Wedersteers]

Colin McKinnon wrote:

Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:

Hello,

I am curious if there is a solution for the following in PHP4:
I often echo something to my browser during tests. I often forget to
add a <BR> to the end of the echo command.
Is it possible to use something like a mcro in C++ to have a command
I can use like echo but which automatically adds the <br> ?
Or is there a command that does that for me ?
Alternatively I could write a function of course, but then brackets
come in to play as well.

There are several ways. Easiest would be to use nl2br()

HTH

C.

Thanks. But this is as "cumbersome" as writing a simple function echobr ();
I decided to try the following -a constant- for a while. Maybe someone likes
it or has better ideas.
Define ("br","<br>");
echo "Mystring or whatever".br;
Another advantage is I can easily change all breaks to newlines and vice
versa when I am working in my PHP ide, which doesn't display breaks
properly.
Pjotr

[Justin Koivisto]

Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:

Colin McKinnon wrote:

Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:

Hello,

I am curious if there is a solution for the following in PHP4:
I often echo something to my browser during tests. I often forget to
add a <BR> to the end of the echo command.
Is it possible to use something like a mcro in C++ to have a command
I can use like echo but which automatically adds the <br> ?
Or is there a command that does that for me ?
Alternatively I could write a function of course, but then brackets
come in to play as well.

There are several ways. Easiest would be to use nl2br()

HTH

C.

Thanks. But this is as "cumbersome" as writing a simple function echobr ();
I decided to try the following -a constant- for a while. Maybe someone likes
it or has better ideas.
Define ("br","<br>");
echo "Mystring or whatever".br;
Another advantage is I can easily change all breaks to newlines and vice
versa when I am working in my PHP ide, which doesn't display breaks
properly.

....but then you still have to *remember* to put it in... ;)

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[Ian.H]

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 20:22:32 +0200, Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:

Thanks. But this is as "cumbersome" as writing a simple function echobr ();
I decided to try the following -a constant- for a while. Maybe someone likes
it or has better ideas.
Define ("br","<br>");
echo "Mystring or whatever".br;
Another advantage is I can easily change all breaks to newlines and vice
versa when I am working in my PHP ide, which doesn't display breaks
properly.
Pjotr

Yikes!

To me:
echo 'my string<br />'
is a lot more simple than having to use concatenation and a constant.. and
probably uses less resources (no define) although this would obviously be
too small to physically notice =)

Using .CONST would be the m$ approach IMO.. "screw standards, I gotz me an
idea!"

Regards,

Ian

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London, UK
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[Pjotr Wedersteers]

Ian.H wrote:

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 20:22:32 +0200, Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:

Thanks. But this is as "cumbersome" as writing a simple function
echobr (); I decided to try the following -a constant- for a while.
Maybe someone likes it or has better ideas.
Define ("br","<br>");
echo "Mystring or whatever".br;
Another advantage is I can easily change all breaks to newlines and
vice versa when I am working in my PHP ide, which doesn't display
breaks properly.
Pjotr

Yikes!

To me:
echo 'my string<br />'
is a lot more simple than having to use concatenation and a
constant.. and probably uses less resources (no define) although this
would obviously be too small to physically notice =)

Using .CONST would be the m$ approach IMO.. "screw standards, I gotz
me an idea!"

Eeek, you say I'm infected with m$ virus.. What's my penance for this sin ?
But seriously, the problem is mostly when I don't echo strings but numerals,
without those nasty quotes. I am a lazy typist.
And echo $a.br; types faster than echo $a."<br />";

[Ian.H]

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 23:36:24 +0200, Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:

Using .CONST would be the m$ approach IMO.. "screw standards, I gotz
me an idea!"

Eeek, you say I'm infected with m$ virus.. What's my penance for this sin ?
But seriously, the problem is mostly when I don't echo strings but numerals,
without those nasty quotes. I am a lazy typist.
And echo $a.br; types faster than echo $a."<br />";

Fair play, can see the extra work here (I'm a lazy typist too =) ).

In Zend, I can hit ctrl+enter and it'll insert a <br> for me.. apologies
if you've already said, but what editor are you using? I wrote many macros
for UEdit to add GPL / BSD headers and other small comment snippet inserts
etc to save myself time.. if your editor has this function it'd be
a trivial task I'm assuming =)

Just a thought.

Regards,

Ian

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London, UK
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