I'm a little lost...LOL

[cowboysdude]

This is what I have so far....  what I'm trying to do is if a variable is marked '0' then the display is off... '1' it's on...that part is working fine... it's the part within the part that's kicking my butt..LOL 

 

Here it is:

 

<?php
If ($nticker=="0") {
echo '
<div id="NewsTicker">
    <div id="controller">
    <div id="stop_scroll_cont"><a id="stop_scroll"><img src="http://localhost/modules/mod_game/img/stop.png" width="14" height="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" /></a> Stop news scroll</div>
    <div id="play_scroll_cont"><a id="play_scroll"><img src="http://localhost/modules/mod_game/img/play.png" width="14" height="14" border="0" align="absmiddle"/></a> Play news scroll</div>
    </div>
<div id="NewsVertical">
  <ul id="TickerVertical">
<li>
   	<h3><?echo $title?></h3>
<span><p><?echo $infobox?></span>
</li>
<li>
<h3><?php echo $title1?></h3>
<span><?php echo $infobox1?></span>
</li>
<li>
<h3><?php echo $title2?></h3>
<span><?php echo $infobox2?></span>
</li>
	</ul>
    </div>
</div>';
}
?>

 

It's the echo infoboxes that aren't working for me.. it just echos 'echo $infobox_' which is what I'm telling it to do... Problem is I'd like it to echo the information stored in the variables not the variables themselves.

 

Suggestions?

 

Many Thanks! 

[Pikachu2000]

Change any remaining short <? open tags to the long <?php tags, terminate the echo statements with semicolons and see if that doesn't take care of it.

[cowboysdude]

I appreciate the help!! But I'm not quite sure what you mean so this is what I did..

 

changed

<? echo $infobox?>

to

<?php echo $infobox;?>

 

But it shows nothing...  at least it's not showing me the "echo $infobox' anymore..LOL

 

Here is what I'm seeing in the html source...

 

<div id="NewsVertical">
  <ul id="TickerVertical">
<li>
   	<h3><?php echo $title;?></h3>
<span><p><?php echo $infobox;?></span>
</li>
<li>
<h3><?php echo $title1;?></h3>
<span><?php echo $infobox1;?></span>
</li>

<li>
<h3><?php echo $title2;?></h3>
<span><?php echo $infobox2;?></span>
</li>
	</ul>
    </div>
</div>

 

Not quite sure why it won't work but hey this is how we learn... 

[kenrbnsn]

First question: Does your host support PHP?

Second question: Is the file type of your script ".php", if it's ".html" rename your file and try again.

 

Ken

[Pikachu2000]

I just spotted the likely culprit. Your echo statement is single-quoted, therefore everything in it is being interpreted as string literals. You need to restructure the echo using string concatenation, or double quotes and escaping where necessary.

[kenrbnsn]

I missed that because of the "echo" statements inside the string. I've always disliked echoing a bunch of HTML with just a little PHP embedded. For cases like that, I just exit out of PHP, do straight HTML and go in/out of PHP where needed:

<?php
If ($nticker=="0")
  { ?>
    <div id="NewsTicker">
    <div id="controller">
    <div id="stop_scroll_cont"><a id="stop_scroll"><img src="http://localhost/modules/mod_game/img/stop.png" width="14" height="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" /></a> Stop news scroll</div>
    <div id="play_scroll_cont"><a id="play_scroll"><img src="http://localhost/modules/mod_game/img/play.png" width="14" height="14" border="0" align="absmiddle"/></a> Play news scroll</div>
    </div>
<div id="NewsVertical">
  <ul id="TickerVertical">
<li>
   	<h3><?php echo $title ?></h3>
<span><p><?php echo $infobox ?></span>
</li>
<li>
<h3><?php echo $title1 ?></h3>
<span><?php echo $infobox1 ?></span>
</li>
<li>
<h3><?php echo $title2 ?></h3>
<span><?php echo $infobox2 ?></span>
</li>
	</ul>
    </div>
</div>
<?php
  }
?>

 

Ken

 

[cowboysdude]

Thank you!! That worked... wow... very simple and sound reasoning!  Many Thanks!