if inside a echo

[ecabrera]

Can there be an if inside an echo

 

 

for example

 

echo "
    <div id='navigation'>
<ul id='nav'>
<!-- main item 1 -->
<li class='item1'>
<a href='".strtolower(str_replace(' ', '-', $cat['title'])).".htm'>".str_replace('and', '&', $cat['id'])."</a>
<!-- dropdown or flyout 1 -->

if($subcat['id'] == $subcat['parent']){
<ul>
<li><a href='#nogo'>{$subcat['title']}</a></li>
</ul>
}else{

}

</li>
</ul>
</div>
    
    ";

[xyph]

No. You could use the ternary operator if you don't mind concatenating, though.

[Mahngiel]

Why are you bothering echoing all that HTML in the first place? Just seems weird. Your IDE won't even give you hinting.   

 

Anyway, that won't work because it's going to be parsed as a string and not server-side language. The best way to do conditionals inline with your code is to use ternary and concatenation.  if it's too complex a conditional, just close the echo statement.

 

<?php
$colors = true;

echo ' colors are ' . ($colors == true ? 'enabled' : 'not enabled');