[FX.php List] Record Count after the fact

Jonathan Schwartz jonathan at eschwartz.com
Fri Feb 16 10:19:03 MST 2007


So...there's no proper syntax for embedding an "if" statement in the 
middle of defining a variable?

Here's what I want to do....

problem is the concatenation of 'blah' and if statement.

$temphtml = 'blah'. if($this == $that){echo $this}else{echo $that}.'blah';



J




At 11:03 AM -0600 2/16/07, Bob Patin wrote:
>That makes complete sense; I mix PHP & HTML like that all the time. 
>Some guys don't seem to like it, but I'm used to it and it works 
>fine in my forms.
>
>BP
>
>
>On Feb 16, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>
>>Hi Bob,
>>
>>I'm trying to write the html, including the results of the php if 
>>statment to a variable ($temphtml).  At the end of the process, I 
>>want to echo out the $temphtml.  The original reason for this is to 
>>be able to count the records that are being evaluated  after 
>>returning from the FMP query.  The reason for this was to deal with 
>>a compound query that FMP could not handle nateively. Phew!
>>
>>Back to your suggestion...it doesn't look like it builds the 
>>$temphtml variable.
>>
>>That being said, and still not being able to embed a php if 
>>statement in the *middle* of building $html, I did succeed in 
>>removing all the php if statements out of the middle of the loop 
>>and placed them at the top of the loop, evaluated them there and 
>>set the values in temporary variables...and then built the 
>>$temphtml in the normal way, having eliminated the in-line if 
>>statements.
>>
>>
>>$temphtml = ''
>>foreach($searchResult['data'] as $key => $value)
>>  {
>>	if(this == that) { $tempdata = "xxx"}; //moved these if 
>>statements to top.
>>
>>	$temphtml = '<tr><td>blah</td></tr>
>>		    <tr><td>'.$tempdata.'</td></tr>';
>>}
>>
>>If there is a better way, I'd love to know it.
>>
>>J
>>
>>>Jonathan,
>>>
>>>Try this:
>>>
>>>
>>><?
>>>$temphtml ='';	//set my variable for collecting the html
>>>foreach($searchResult['data'] as $key => $value) {
>>>	$temphtml = $temphtml;
>>>	?>
>>>	<tr><td>blah</td></tr>
>>>  	<tr><td><?php if(empty($value['flag'][0] ))  { echo 
>>>"$".$value['price'][0]; }else{ echo "Call"; }?>
>>>	<tr><td>blah</td></tr>
>>>	<?php
>>>}
>>>?>
>>>
>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>On Feb 15, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I could do that.  However, that would then add a second for 
>>>>>>loop: one to reduce the data set and write the results to an 
>>>>>>array and one to write the array for display...in addition to 
>>>>>>the FMP query. (Hey guys....do you believe that this kind of 
>>>>>>talk is coming from me...former beginner. ;-)   ).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Seems that this is particularly resource intensive,  No?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Jonathan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>At 11:25 AM -0500 2/15/07, Andy Gaunt wrote:
>>>>>>>Jonathan,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Rather than do a new page, can you do your for loop outside 
>>>>>>>the HTML first
>>>>>>>(writing everything to a new variable) then echoing this to 
>>>>>>>your page once
>>>>>>>completed?. If so then you could increment a counter variable when the
>>>>>>>record matches your criteria ( $counter++; ) and then echo 
>>>>>>>this out before
>>>>>>>you echo out your content from the loop.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Andy Gaunt
>>>>>>>Office: 321.206.3658
>>>>>>>Mobile: 407.810.4722
>>>>>>>andy at fmpug.com
>>>>>>>http://www.fmpug.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>--
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Jonathan Schwartz
>>>>>>FileMaker 8 Certified  Developer
>>>>>>Associate Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance
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