[SOLVED] How to echo PHP code inside an echo. Weird sounding I know, just look you'll see

[Darkmatter5]

I have this echo string that isn't giving me what I'm needing.  Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

elseif($type=="edit_item") {
  $query=mysql_query("SELECT cab_name, fol_name, items.*
    FROM items
    JOIN folders ON(items.folder_id=folders.folder_id)
    JOIN cabinets ON(cabinets.cabinet_id=folders.cabinet_id)
    WHERE items.item_id=$_GET[item_id]
    ") or die(mysql_error());
  echo "<p>
    <table class='edit' width='100%' border='1' cellspacing='1' cellpadding='3'>
    <caption><b>ITEM EDITING</b></caption>";
  while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
    echo "<tr><td colspan='4'>PATH: $row[cab_name] -> $row[fol_name] -> </td></tr>
      <tr><td colspan='4'> </td></tr>
      <tr>
      <td width='150'>Item Name:</td>
      <td colspan='3'><input name='item_name' type='text' class='text_boxes' tabindex='12' size='50' maxlength='50' value='$row[item_name]'/></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
      <td>Item Description:</td>
      <td colspan='3'><input name='item_description' type='text' class='text_boxes' tabindex='13' size='80' maxlength='300' value='$row[item_description]'/></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
      <td>Folder:</td>
      <td colspan='3'><?php $ec->folder_list(14,'',$row[folder_id]); ?></td>
      </tr>";
  }
  echo "</table>";
}

 

Here's what "View Source" gives me.

 

<table class='edit' width='100%' border='1' cellspacing='1' cellpadding='3'>
<caption><b>ITEM EDITING</b></caption><tr><td colspan='4'>PATH: Bills -> Telephone, Cable & Internet -> </td></tr>
  <tr><td colspan='4'> </td></tr>
  <tr>
    <td width='150'>Item Name:</td>
    <td colspan='3'><input name='item_name' type='text' class='text_boxes' tabindex='12' size='50' maxlength='50' value='something'/></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Item Description:</td>
    <td colspan='3'><input name='item_description' type='text' class='text_boxes' tabindex='13' size='80' maxlength='300' value='lhhklhjlh'/></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Folder:</td>
    <td colspan='3'><?php (14,'',2); ?></td>
  </tr>
</table>

 

How can I get it to output the "$ec->folder_list" part?

[aeonsky]

Think it should be...

 

<td colspan='3'>".$ec->folder_list(14,'',$row[folder_id])."</td>

[DarkWater]

Exit out of the string and concatenate the function in there.  Example:

 

echo "something something something" . microtime() . "something";

 

Also, I'd personally just exit out of PHP for that whole HTML block and go back in to echo things, because it looks really sloppy and confusing in an echo.

[Darkmatter5]

Okay that all makes sense, but also another problem I'm now encountering is that this php segment is inside a php function that is called from a regular page.  Now if I'm wanting to call my list_folders function how can I call it when it's not defined inside this function?  How can I call a function from within another function?  Do I simply have to include the following code inside the function to define list_folder()?

 

require('library/ecabinet_funcs.php');
$ec = new ecabinet();

 

Also I have all my functions inside the file ecabinet_funcs.php, so if the first echo segment (which is inside a function named show_filing) is in the same file as the folder_list function, am I able to define a function from the same page I'm in?  If that doesn't make sense let me know.

[DarkWater]

Elaborate a little please. >_<

[Darkmatter5]

Okay,

 

I have a file named ecabinet_funcs.php.  It contains all my functions, each individual page that's displaed on my site require this ecabinet_funcs.php file.  In a file named res_edit.php I call a function from ecabinet_funcs.php with this code "$ec->show_filing(edit_item);".  This function is below:

 

show_filing();

function show_filing($type) {
  include 'library/config.inc.php';
  $conn=mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die('Error connecting to mysql');
  mysql_select_db($dbnamemain);

  elseif($type=="edit_item") {
    $query=mysql_query("SELECT cab_name, fol_name, items.*
      FROM items
      JOIN folders ON(items.folder_id=folders.folder_id)
      JOIN cabinets ON(cabinets.cabinet_id=folders.cabinet_id)
      WHERE items.item_id=$_GET[item_id]
      ") or die(mysql_error());
    echo "<p>
      <table class='edit' width='100%' cellspacing='1' cellpadding='3'>
      <caption><b>ITEM EDITING</b></caption>";
    while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
      echo "<tr><td colspan='2'><b>ITEM_ID: </b>$row[item_id]</td></tr>
        <tr><td colspan='2'><b>PATH: </b><a title='Cabinet'><font color='#BF1E36'>$row[cab_name]</font></a> -> <a title='Folder'><font color='#CEC013'>$row[fol_name]</font></a> -> </td></tr>
        <tr><td colspan='2'><b>FILE: </b>$row[file_name]</td></tr>
        <tr><td colspan='2'><hr></td></tr>
        <tr>
          <td width='150' align='right'>Item Name:</td>
          <td><input name='item_name' type='text' class='text_boxes' tabindex='12' size='50' maxlength='50' value='$row[item_name]'/></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td align='right'>Item Description:</td>
          <td><input name='item_description' type='text' class='text_boxes' tabindex='13' size='80' maxlength='300' value='$row[item_description]'/></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td align='right'>Folder:</td>
          <td> /*.folder_list(14,'',$row[folder_id]).*/ </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td align='right'>Type:</td>
          <td> /*.type_list(15,'',$row[folder_id]).*/ </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td colspan='2'>
            <fieldset>
            </fieldset>
          </td>
        </tr>";
     }
     echo "</table>";
   }
            
    mysql_close($conn);
}

 

Now as you can see in the above code, in the commented out part, I'm wanting to call another function named type_list().  This function I'm wanting to call (type_list()) also resides in the file ecabinet_funcs.php.  So both functions are in the file ecabinet_funcs.php. So my dilemma is how can I call this type_list() function?

 

Thanks!

[Darkmatter5]

Here's another update to this, I tried putting "$ec=new ecabinet();" after "mysql_select_db($dbnamemain);" in the show_filing() funtion and then changed ".folder_list(14,'',$row[folder_id])." to ".$ec->folder_list(14,'',$row[folder_id])." but the dropdown lists that is correctly generated is generated and displayed before the table, not in the cell the code is written in.  Why is it not displayed there?

[Darkmatter5]

Well I fixed it sort of, Instead of using

 

<td>" .$ec->folder_list(14),',$row[item_id]);. "</td>

 

I'm now using

 

<td>";
echo $ec->folder_list(14,'',$row[item_id]);
echo "</td>

 

So I broke out the function call completely from the echo.