php inside a php echo

Darkmatter5 · May 16, 2008

I have this code that is giving me the following error "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /var/www/byrndb/library/getClient.php on line 38"

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
$clientid=$_GET["r1"];

include 'dbconfig.php';
include 'opendb.php';

$query="SELECT ClientID, FirstName, LastName, CompanyName, ContactTitle, Address, City, State, ZipCode, HomePhone, WorkPhone, WorkPhoneExtension, FaxPhone, Email
	FROM byrnjobdb.clients
	WHERE ClientID=$clientid";
$result=mysql_query($query) OR die (mysql_error());

echo "<br>";
echo "<form method='post'><table width='720' border='0'>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width='120'><div align='center'></div></td>";
echo "<td width='250'><div align='center'>Current record data</div></td>";
echo "<td width='150'><div align='center'>Data to update</div></td>";
echo "<td width='200'><div align='center'>Function status</div></td>";
echo "</tr>";

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr><td><strong>ClientID:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['ClientID'] . "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>First name:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['FirstName'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='FirstName' type='text' id='FirstName'/>
		  <td rowspan='13' bgcolor='#006699'><div align='center'>
		  <?php
		  if(isset($_POST['editclient'])) {
		  	include 'library/dbconfig.php';
			include 'library/opendb.php';

			$FirstName=$_POST['FirstName'];
			$LastName=$_POST['LastName'];
			$CompanyName=$_POST['CompanyName'];
			$ContactTitle=$_POST['ContactTitle'];
			$Address=$_POST['Address'];
			$City=$_POST['City'];
			$State=$_POST['State'];
			$ZipCode=$_POST['ZipCode'];
			$HomePhone=$_POST['HomePhone'];
			$WorkPhone=$_POST['WorkPhone'];
			$WorkPhoneExtension=$_POST['WorkPhoneExtension'];
			$FaxPhone=$_POST['FaxPhone'];
			$Email=$_POST['Email'];

			//put new client data from form into the clients table
			foreach (array('FirstName', 'LastName', 'CompanyName', 'ContactTitle',  'Address', 'City', 'State', 'ZipCode', 'HomePhone', 'WorkPhone', 'WorkPhoneExtension', 'FaxPhone', 'Email') as $field) {
			  if ($_POST[$field]) {
			  	$field_name[]=$field;
				$field_value[]="'{$_POST[$field]}'";
			  }
			}
			$fields=join(', ', $field_name);
			$values=join(', ', $field_value);
			$insertdata='INSERT INTO byrnjobdb.clients ($fields) VALUES ($values)';
			mysql_query($insertdata) or dir('Error, insert query failed');
			echo 'NEW CLIENT ADDED...<br>';
			include 'library/closedb.php';
		  }
		  else {
		  ?></div></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Last name:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['LastName'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='LastName' type='text' id='LastName'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Company name:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['CompanyName'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='CompanyName' type='text' id='CompanyName'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Contact Title:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['ContactTitle'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='ContactTitle' type='text' id='ContactTitle'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Address:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['Address'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='Address' type='text' id='Address'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>City:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['City'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='City' type='text' id='City'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>State:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['State'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='State' type='text' id='State'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Zip code:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['ZipCode'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='ZipCode' type='text' id='ZipCode'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Home phone:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['HomePhone'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='HomePhone' type='text' id='HomePhone'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Work phone:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['WorkPhone'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='WorkPhone' type='text' id='WorkPhone'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Extension:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['WorkPhoneExtension'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='WorkPhoneExtension' type='text' id='WorkPhoneExtension'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Fax phone:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['FaxPhone'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='FaxPhone' type='text' id='FaxPhone'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Email:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['Email'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='Email' type='text' id='Email'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td colspan='4'><div align='center'><input name='editclient' type='submit' id='editclient' value='Store new client data' /></div></td></tr>";
}

echo "</table></form>";

include 'closedb.php';
?>
</body>
</html>

Help please!

DeanWhitehouse · May 16, 2008

remove the second .

<td>" . $row['FirstName'] "</td>

May 16, 2008

Are you allowed to perform php inside an echo statment? If you are, that would make my life a lot easier...

DeanWhitehouse · May 16, 2008

none of this is in <?php tags


		  ?></div></td></tr><?php
echo "<tr><td><strong>Last name:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['LastName'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='LastName' type='text' id='LastName'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Company name:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['CompanyName'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='CompanyName' type='text' id='CompanyName'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Contact Title:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['ContactTitle'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='ContactTitle' type='text' id='ContactTitle'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Address:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['Address'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='Address' type='text' id='Address'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>City:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['City'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='City' type='text' id='City'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>State:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['State'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='State' type='text' id='State'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Zip code:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['ZipCode'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='ZipCode' type='text' id='ZipCode'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Home phone:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['HomePhone'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='HomePhone' type='text' id='HomePhone'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Work phone:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['WorkPhone'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='WorkPhone' type='text' id='WorkPhone'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Extension:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['WorkPhoneExtension'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='WorkPhoneExtension' type='text' id='WorkPhoneExtension'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Fax phone:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['FaxPhone'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='FaxPhone' type='text' id='FaxPhone'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td><strong>Email:</strong></td>
		  <td>" . $row['Email'] . "</td>
		  <td><input name='Email' type='text' id='Email'/></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td colspan='4'><div align='center'><input name='editclient' type='submit' id='editclient' value='Store new client data' /></div></td></tr>";
}

echo "</table></form>";

include 'closedb.php';
?>
</body>
</html>

soycharliente · May 16, 2008

You're missing a closing quote and semicolon right before this.

<?php
if(isset($_POST['editclient'])) {

Darkmatter5 · May 16, 2008

947740: I don't see why you can't create php code from an echo. It's basically just creating more code.

Blade280891: That portion of the code as far as I can tell is encapsulated within the <?php tag at the top of the code under the <body> tag. there are basically two PHP segments in this code, the original then one that is created and echoed if the editclient button is clicked.

Darkmatter5 · May 16, 2008

Okay here's another question, in the code

echo "<tr><td><strong>ClientID:</strong></td>
          <td>" . $row['ClientID'] . "</td></tr>";

What do the .'s on either side of $row['ClientID'] do? I go this code from a tutorial somewhere and I can't remember where so I can't go back to it and read up on what it does. So can someone explain?

May 16, 2008

I am thinking that charlieholder agrees with me, because he pointed out that you forgot a ";

I just did not think you could have if statements, etc. in an echo statement.

The . before and after $row['ClientID'] concatenate (sp?) the string.

soycharliente · May 16, 2008

The . operation appends the two things together. It's like adding them, but + is reserved for more mathematical computations.

So:

<?php
$foo = "char";
$bar = "lie";
echo $foo . $bar;
// output = charlie
?>

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