tomfmason Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 I am having a bit of issue with echo. I am sure that I made a simple systanx error. I don't understand what I did wrong. It was working fine untill I added a seperate php file that would let people know that the site was under construction ok here we go.I will start with forum.php. [code]<?php$filename = "forum.php";$title = "Forum"; include("includes/construct.php");include("includes/main.php");?>[/code]Simple I know but it is only temporary. Now $title is supposed to be used in three places. The construct.php Which Works. The header.php(simple breadcrumb) and the navbar.phpHere is the construct.php:[code]<?php$content = " <div class=\"story\"> <h3>$title is Coming Soon</h3> <p> This page is under construction </p> <p> <--------------------------------------------------------------------------------> </p> </div>"?>[/code]This is another simple page. As you can see $title is printed at the top of the page. This works just fine.Now I will post the main.php which is the main layout for my site.[code]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html><!-- DW6 --><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><title><?php echo("$title"); ?></title><link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css" type="text/css"></head><body bgcolor="#707070"><div id="master"> <div id="masthead"> <?php include("header.php"); ?> </div> <div id="navBar"> <?php include("navbar.php"); ?> </div> <!--end navBar div --> <div id="headlines"> <?php include("headlines.php"); ?> </div> <!--end headlines --> <div id="content"> <?php echo("$content"); ?> </div> <!--end content --> <div id="siteInfo"> <?php include("footer.php"); ?> </div></div> <br> </body></html>[/code]As you can see $content is passed from construct.php. This is only temporay, untill I code the forum $content in forum.php. Now here is the header.php This is were things stop working the way I want.[code] <div id="header"> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="770" height="200" data="header.swf"> <param name="movie" value="../images/header.swf" /> </object> </div> <div id="breadCrumb"> <?php if ($filename=="index.php")echo " <a href=\"index.php\">Home</a>";else echo " <a href=\"http://www.owpt.biz/index.php\">Home</a> / <a href=\"$filename\">$title</a>"?> </div>[/code]As you can see if the person is on index.php it is supposed to print home and if they are at a different page it is supposed to print home / $title . Simple, yes but it still dosn't work. The only one that prints is the first one. Now we are on to the navbar.php[code] <div id="search"> <form action="#"> <label>search</label> <input name="searchFor" type="text" size="10"> <input name="goButton" type="submit" value="go"> </form> </div> <div id="sectionLinks"> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a href="index.php">Home</a></li> <li><a href="account.php">My account</a></li> <li><a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="catalog.php">Catalog</a></li> <li><a href="forum.php">Forum</a></li> <li><a href="tutorials.php">Tutorials</a></li> </ul> </div> <?php if ($title=="Tutorials")echo " <div class=\"relatedLinks\"> <h3>$title</h3> <ul> <li><a href=\"#\">Html</a></li> <li><a href=\"#\">Css</a></li> <li><a href=\"#\">Php</a></li> <li><a href=\"#\">Flash</a></li> <li><a href=\"#\">Xampp</a></li> <li><a href=\"#\">Wamp</a></li> </ul> </div>";elseif ($title=="Forum")echo " <div class=\"relatedLinks\"> <h3>$title Catagories</h3> <ul> <li><a href=\"#\">General</a></li> <li><a href=\"#\">Apache</a></li> <li><a href=\"#\">MySql</a></li> <li><a href=\"#\">Html</a></li> <li><a href=\"#\">Css</a></li> <li><a href=\"#\">Php</a></li> <li><a href=\"#\">Flash</a></li> <li><a href=\"#\">Xampp</a></li> <li><a href=\"#\">Wamp</a></li> </ul> </div>"?>[/code]Here it is supposed to print more links if the $title is forum or tutorials. I plan on, later getting the list from a data base but for now this will work just fine.Neither the breadcrumbs nor the navbar are working correctly. When I few the source code there is an empty space where the extra navbar is supposed to be. Here is a link to the [url=http://www.owpt.biz/forum.php]forum.php[/url]Any suggestions would be great. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/13364-else-if-not-echoing/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 well i went to your website and it seems to be working... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/13364-else-if-not-echoing/#findComment-51583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomfmason Posted July 1, 2006 Author Share Posted July 1, 2006 It must have been my computer cacheing the site. When I clicked the link to forum.php it was working just fine...lol I spent about two hours racking my brain tryin to figure this out. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/13364-else-if-not-echoing/#findComment-51585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomfmason Posted July 1, 2006 Author Share Posted July 1, 2006 would it make the load time any faster , or is this a better way, If I added in the forum.php something like this[code]<?php$construction = "true";$filename = "forum.php";$title = "Forum"; include("includes/construct.php");include("includes/main.php");?> [code] and changed the content area in main.php to this[code]<div id="content"><?php if ($construction == "true") echo"$content = " <div class=\"story\"> <h3>$title is Coming Soon</h3> <p> This page is under construction </p> <p> <--------------------------------------------------------------------------------> </p> </div>"; else echo("$content"); ?> </div> <!--end content -->[/code] [/code][/code] Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/13364-else-if-not-echoing/#findComment-51591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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