If there is no data write "Edit"

[sean04]

Hey,

 

So on my profile page I have a lot of info such as Name, Birthday, City, Country, Status etc...

Its set up like this...

Name:  $loggedInfo[Name]<p/>
Birthday: $loggedInfo[birthday]<p/>
City: $loggedInfo[City]<p/>
Country: $loggedInfo[Country]<p/>
Status: $loggedInfo[status]<p/>

 

The problem is is that if the user doesnt fill out this info then there is a blank space on their profile. How can I go about having it so if there is no data for say Country, on their profile there will be a link and it will say "Edit this!" and that link can just go to edit profile.

 

Pretty much I dont want to do this for everything...

if($loggedInfo[Name] != "")
{
     echo"$loggedInfo[Name]";
}else{
     echo"<a href='edit_profile.php'>edit this!</a>";
}

 

Thanks,

Sean

 

[gwolgamott]

Where ever it is you are storing the data and retrieving it from, say you retrieve it all in an array then take that array and foreach through it, if one of the elements is empty fill it with with a string like: '<a href="myedit.html">Edit This</a>'  then print all the variables as normal later.

[sean04]

Thanks gwolgamott.

 

Im just getting all my information from a view as I posted some of my code in my previous post. Do you have any ideas of how I can do this with the way im doing things now?

 

Thanks,

Sean

[gwolgamott]

Sorry so long for a reply been sick and sleeping for a number of days... not quite literal but close enough that I never even touch a computer for 4 days.

You've already the array with the $loggedInfo

 

//So just loop through that array

foreach($loggedInfo as $key => $value)
{

if($value != "")
{
     echo"$value";
}else{
     echo"<a href='edit_profile.php'>edit this!</a>";
}

}

[sean04]

Glad to see your better

 

Thanks for the reply!

 

Sorry but im not sure if I understand. Where would I put like name, birthday, city etc..?

 

Thanks,

Sean

[Alex]

Assuming that the $loggedInfo array only contains the fields that you want to display in this particular area you can do something like this:

 

foreach($loggedInfo as $name => $val) {
if(!empty($val)) {
	echo "$name: $val<p/>";
} else {
	echo "<a href='edit_profile.php'>edit this!</a>";
}
}

 

If you want you can also shorten it with the ternary operator:

 

foreach($loggedInfo as $name => $val) {
echo !empty($val) ? "$name: $val<p/>" : "<a href='edit_profile.php'>edit this!</a>";
}

[sean04]

Ah so can I do this?

 

foreach($loggedInfo as $name => $val) {	
     if(!empty($val)) {		
           echo "$name: $val<p/>";
           echo "$birthday: $val<p/>";
           echo "$location: $val<p/>";	
     } else {		
          echo "<a href='edit_profile.php'>edit this!</a>";	
     }
}

 

Or like individually?

 

foreach($loggedInfo as $name => $val) {	
     if(!empty($val)) {		
           echo "$name: $val<p/>";	
     } else {		
          echo "<a href='edit_profile.php'>edit this!</a>";	
     }
}

foreach($loggedInfo as $name => $val) {	
     if(!empty($val)) {		
           echo "$birthday: $val<p/>";	
     } else {		
          echo "<a href='edit_profile.php'>edit this!</a>";	
     }
}

 

Thanks,

Sean

[Alex]

The code I provided will loop through all of the elements in the array, so it's not necessary to write repetitive code. Try it. If you have any problems post back.

[sean04]

All loggedInfo is is a sql statement

 

$loggedInfo = select * from table where userid = loggedInUser

 

Thanks,

Sean

[Alex]

Then how did you plan on doing what you did with it in the OP?

 

Here's what you might do (I made some assumptions so you might have to change the column names and things like that):

 

$sql = "select Name, Birthday, City, Country, Status from table where userid = loggedInUser"; // Did you mean $loggedInUser ?
if($result = mysql_query($sql)) {
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
foreach($row as $name => $val) {
	if(!empty($val)) {
		echo "$name: $val<p/>";
	} else {
		echo "<a href='edit_profile.php'>edit this!</a>";
	}
}
} else {
// error
}