[FX.php List] Embed php into HTML or vice versa?

[Steve Hannah]

Hi Jonathan,

One tip for making HTML-in-PHP a little easier to work with is:

instead of
echo "<td>".$value['StuList'][0]."</td>";

do

echo "<td>{$value['StuList'][0]}</td>";

That way you don't have to worry about forgetting a pesky  
concatenation operator.
You can only do this inside double quotes, not single quotes, but it  
works for just about any valid PHP expression.

Best regards

Steve


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On 31-Aug-06, at 4:57 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> I have yet to delve into smarty.php, but this is an example of my  
> html embedded into php:  Just to be clear, I'm barely out of the  
> "very thankful" stage I can at least get the code to work. ;-)   It  
> can take a lot of time to locate that missing syntax error.
>
> J
>
>
> 		<?php foreach($searchResult['data'] as $key => $value)
>    		{//start for each
>    		echo "<tr class=\"ver12\"><td><ahref=\"famdetail.php?recid=";
>
>  	 	$recordDetails=explode('.',$key);
> 		$currentRecord=$recordDetails[0];
> 		echo $currentRecord."\">".$value['FamilyName'][0];
>  		echo "</a></td>";
>  		echo "<td>".$value['StuList'][0]."</td>";
>    		echo "<td>".$value['Address1'][0]."</td>";
>      		echo "<td>".$value['City'][0]."</td>";
>     		echo "<td>".$value['State'][0]."</td>";
> 	 	echo "<td>".$value['Zip'][0]."</td>";
> 		echo "<td align=\"right\"><a href=\"editfamorder.php?recid=";
> 		echo $currentRecord."\">$".number_format($value['AmtTotal'] 
> [0],'2',".","");
>  		echo "</a></td>";
>  		echo "<td align=\"right\"><ahref=\"lunchdetail.php?recid=";
> 		echo $currentRecord."\">$".number_format($value['LunchTotalPrice'] 
> [0],'2',".","");
>  		echo "</a></td>";
> 		echo "<td align=\"center\">".$value['PTAMembership'][0]."</td>";
> 		echo "</tr>";
>
> 		 } //end for each
>
> 		?>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 9:29 AM +1000 9/1/06, Kevin Futter wrote:
>> On 1/9/06 6:16 AM, "Jonathan Schwartz" <jonathan at eschwartz.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  I'd like to get better at coding my scripts.
>>>
>>>  One thing that I have not developed a sense for yet: when it is  
>>> best
>>>  to embed php tags into html versus embedding html into php code.
>>>
>>>  I tend to waste the most amount of time solving parse errors when
>>>  embedded html into php, it seems, especially in dealing with quotes
>>>  and such.
>>>
>>>  I hope that this question makes sense.
>>>
>>>  Thanks
>>>
>>>  Jonathan
>>>
>>
>> The way to look at it is from the perspective of separating logic  
>> from other
>> elements of page rendering (document structure, presentation and  
>> behaviour).
>> On that basis alone, I endeavour to keep my PHP and HTML as  
>> separate as
>> possible (which often isn't very). Normally I try to just print  
>> PHP variable
>> values into an HTML element or attribute and move on. It's not always
>> possible, but mixing them up either way just makes for a messy  
>> document in
>> which all the separate elements are mashed up.
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Futter
>> Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
>> http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
>>
>>
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