Hi everyone,
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I finally got some time to come back to learning a little more PHP...
and I am looking forward to lots more in coming months, with any
luck. Anyway, as I was working towards the last deadline with the PHP
project I was working on, I uncovered several issues I did not know
the answer to.. and I just hacked around them to avoid taking more
time while I was under the clock/meter. Now on my own time, I want to
ask, so I learn more deeply what was more ideal understanding/technique.
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Here's one of those Q's:
I was working on a system ("MoveableType", A.K.A. "MT") that writes db
data to static text files (web pages) whenever the CMS admin tells it
to "publish". That system writes out the PHP code that I tell it to,
in each page of the site. There was one place in my PHP code (marked
with ***MT***, below) where I needed to include a chunk of data that
would not be known (or written out) until the admin next published the
page (i.e. I could not include the code inline). I needed to display
it only in case of a PHP comparison evaluating to true. I was tempted
to break out of PHP at that point, and then go back into PHP within
that ***MT*** block itself, _only_ when/where in the few places that
block needs PHP.. in order to reduce the head pressure (of the less-
technical admin using the MT CMS) having to wade through so many PHP
print/echo statements (I could not get heredoc to work right, but
that is another topic/post ;-). But despite the temptation, I did not
attempt that because I thought it might break the logic of the if
{ } . On the other hand, I vaguely remember reading something that
made me think something like that is possible.. but I don't know where
I saw it.
To better summarize my Q:
could the below "<mt:Var name="PageMoreNoCRLF">" (which contains a
long block of HTML sprinkled with a little PHP whose contents are
known only at runtime) be *broken out of* of the <?php ... ?> wrapper
that surrounds the if { } statement, and have it still only get
displayed on the final webpage when the if { } statement evaluates to
true? The reason I want that is so that I can just keep the HTML
straight and simple in that MT block, instead of using PHP string-
printing statements to spit out it's mostly-pure-HTML contents. The
admin using the system is using a WYSIWYG HTML editable textarea
interface, kind of like FCKEditor.
if($AlertUser2success != 0) {
echo '<div class="pg_DIVmainText">'."\n";
echo '<img class="divBGgradient" style="" src="images/
BehindBox01.png" alt="" />'."\n";
echo '<div>'."\n";
/*--- here is the ***MT*** block/include ---> ---*/ <mt:Var
name="PageMoreNoCRLF">
echo '</div>'."\n";
echo '</div>'."\n";
} else {
...
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Govinda
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