Trouble with IF

[thumbliner]

Hello everyone,

 

I am new to this forum and PHP world. Doing my first project, a pretty complicated one to start with. I will be needing your help a lot to accomplish it.

Here is the first one.

 

1. I have a certain field called 'country'

2. I have small flag icons for every country.

 

WHAT DO I WANT TO DO?

 

Example - If the country is U.S.A., the U.S. flag shows up and is a link to www.domain.com/usa

If the country is Germany, the German flags shows up and is a link to www.domain.com/germany

If the country is not set, no flag shows up. END.

 

How do I execute this?

 

This is what I am doing to get the image

<img src="images/flags/<?php echo $row_rsPilots['country']; ?>.gif" alt="" name="Flag" width="20" height="20" id="Flag" />

 

How do make it a link to www.domain.com/'country'

 

Thanks in advance

[Pikachu2000]

So are there only 2 possible countries, USA and Germany, or is it actually every country?

[thumbliner]

My forms allow around 120 countries and I have flags for all. That is not the problem. Even if it is infinite, lets assume I have flags for all. I am more concerned about the link www.domain.com/country

[Pikachu2000]

The link is the easy part, as long as you've sorted how to display the image. It looks like `country` holds the value you need, so just wrap the image in an <a href tag using that value. I've stored the values in variables to make the tag more concise.

 

$image = "<img src=\"images/flags/{$row_rsPilots['country']}.gif\" alt=\"\" name=\"Flag\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" />";
$link = "http://www.domain.com/{$row_rsPilots['country']}";
?>
<a href="<?php echo $link; ?>"><?php echo $image; ?></a>

[thumbliner]

:-\

I am new to PHP but not new to common sense. 

That much I know.

 

I am having trouble with this sort of stuff

 

<?php If (isset($row_rsPilots['country']));

{ WHAT DO I WRITE HERE?

} ?>

 

The problem I am facing is that I have already opened a 'php' tag <?php

When I use that as an extension for the domain or image, the repetition is creating a mess.

[Pikachu2000]

So then, your problem is actually a syntax error? You didn't even imply that in the OP. How about posting the actual relevant code, and any errors it's generating.

[thumbliner]

To get a syntax error, I should at least put the wrong code. 

 

Anyways, this is what I am trying.

 

<?php

$image = "<img src="images/flags/{$row_rsPilots['country']}.gif" alt="" name="Flag" width="20" height="20" />";

$link = "http://www.domain.com/{$row_rsPilots['country']}";

?>

 

<?php if (isset(($rsPilots['country']));

{ echo <a href="?><?php echo $link; ?>"><?php echo $image; ?><?php</a>;

?>

[Pikachu2000]

You still haven't defined your problem very well, so I hope this is what you're talking about.

 

$image = "<img src=\"images/flags/{$row_rsPilots['country']}.gif\" alt=\"\" name=\"Flag\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" />";
$link = "http://www.domain.com/{$row_rsPilots['country']}";
if (!empty($rsPilots['country'])) {
echo "<a href=\"$link\">$image</a>";
}
?>

[thumbliner]

Have a look at the attachment, please.

 

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[rog1121]

Within echo use the single quote like this ' and not the Double quotes that look like this "

[Pikachu2000]

Why did you change the code I posted and remove the escaping backslashes before the inner double quotes? Did you think I just put those there to mess with you or something? No wonder you can't get it to work.

[kenrbnsn]

You can also write it like

<?php
$image = "<img src='images/flags/{$row_rsPilots['country']}.gif' alt='' name='Flag' width='20' height='20' />";
$link = "http://www.domain.com/{$row_rsPilots['country']}";
if (!empty($rsPilots['country'])) {
echo "<a href='$link'>$image</a>";
}
?>

which gets rid of the escaped double quotes and looks cleaner (IMHO).

 

Ken

[thumbliner]

Why did you change the code I posted and remove the escaping backslashes before the inner double quotes? Did you think I just put those there to mess with you or something? No wonder you can't get it to work.

Oopss!!!!

I thought those were not suppose to be there so I erased all manually.

[thumbliner]

Alright, problem solved. Thanks everyone.