Can someone tell me what the error is in this PHP '$_GET if else' code

[james909]

Can someone tell me what the error is in this PHP '$_GET if else' code

 

	<!-- /debughtml -->
</div>
<br />
<?php
if (isset($_GET['title']) && $_GET['title'] == 'Main_Page,Community_portal,Current_events,Special:RecentChanges,Help:Contents,Special:WhatLinksHere/Help:Contents,Special:Upload,Special:SpecialPages,itsmywiki.com:Privacy_policy,itsmywiki.com:About,itsmywiki:General_disclaimer,Special:Preferences,Special:Watchlist,Special:Contributions/itsmywiki.com,Special:UserLogout&returnto=Special%3AContributions%2F$,User:$,User_talk:$') {
// do nothing
} else {
if (isset($_GET['action']) && $_GET['action'] == 'edit,history') {
// do nothing
} else { ?>
<center><div class="fb-comments" data-width="800" data-num-posts="100" data-colorscheme="dark"></div></center>
<?php } ?>
<!-- /bodyContent -->

 

this code is causing a syntax error further down the page, and i cant figure out what the problem is?

[pmccall2]

Probably has something to do with your php tags. If the second else statement is used you have 2 sets of end tags.

[james909]

thank you for your reply pmccall2, what is the correct way to include html within php, i was unsure about that coding

[ultraloveninja]

You can use echo:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.echo.php

[pmccall2]

I usually try and separate the logic from the html. For the current code it would be something like.

 

<?php
//logic goes here
if (isset($_GET['action']) && $_GET['action'] = "myaction")
{
$action = "";
}
else
{
$action = "html string";
}
?>
<div>
<?php echo $action; ?>
</div>

[AyKay47]

What is the exact error that is being displayed?

[james909]

thanks for all the help

 

akkay47, it is showing "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PRIVATE in /home/acc/public_html/itsmywiki.com/skins/Vector.php on line 268" in the web-browser

 

 

 

i changed the html line using 'echo' to

 

 

} else {
echo '<center><div class="fb-comments" data-width="800" data-num-posts="100" data-colorscheme="dark"></div></center>';
} ?>

 

and it is still showing a syntax error

[Jessica]

What is line 268 (and the few around it) of file /home/acc/public_html/itsmywiki.com/skins/Vector.php??

[james909]

line 268 is a few lines after this code that i am editing, this error appeared when i first started adding this '$_GET if else code'

[TOA]

Is that a nested if/else in the OP? If so I believe you're missing a closing brace ( } ). I only see one

[james909]

thank you TOA! it was the missing closing braket }

 

the syntax error has gone away and the page loads

 

 

the code that i wrote is still not working as it should

the url 'http://itsmywiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page'

is displaying the facebook comment code, and i am trying to use the title variable in the the if code to avoid the Main_Page (along with the other pages) displaying the facebook comments

[TOA]

Most likely, your desired titles and actions are being treated as strings; that's what it looks like to me. You either need to test for each one, or make an array out of the values and use in_array.

 

Ex:

$allowed = array('edit','history');
if (in_array($_GET['action'], $allowed)) {
// show comment code
}

 

Something like that...

[james909]

thank you for the reply TOA, i have changed the code to:

 

 

<!-- /debughtml -->
</div>
           <br />
           <?php
$allowed = array('Main_Page','Community_portal','Current_events','Special:RecentChanges','Help:Contents','Special:WhatLinksHere/Help:Contents','Special:Upload,Special:SpecialPages','itsmywiki.com:Privacy_policy','itsmywiki.com:About','itsmywiki:General_disclaimer','Special:Preferences,Special:Watchlist','Special:Contributions/itsmywiki.com','Special:UserLogout&returnto=Special%3AContributions%2F$','User:$,User_talk:$');
if (in_array($_GET['action'], $allowed)) {
   // do nothing
} else {
$allowed = array('edit','history');
if (in_array($_GET['action'], $allowed)) {
// do nothing
}
else {
echo '<center><div class="fb-comments" data-width="800" data-num-posts="100" data-colorscheme="dark"></div></center>';
}
}?>
<!-- /bodyContent -->

 

and the facebook comments is still appearing on all the URLs :confused:

 

example of the URLs:

 

http://itsmywiki.com/index.php?title=Page_1 (i want the facebook comments to appear here)

http://itsmywiki.com/index.php?title=Page_1&action=edit (i dont want the facebook comments to appear here)

http://itsmywiki/index.php?title=Main_Page (i dont want the facebook comments to appear here)

 

but the facebook comments is currently appearing on every site page

[TOA]

Your OP checked both $_GET['title'] and $_GET['action']. In this most recent version, you check action in both cases. Was that an intentional change?

[TOA]

Also, check out this indented version

$banned = array('Main_Page','Community_portal','Current_events','Special:RecentChanges','Help:Contents','Special:WhatLinksHere/Help:Contents','Special:Upload,Special:SpecialPages','itsmywiki.com:Privacy_policy','itsmywiki.com:About','itsmywiki:General_disclaimer','Special:Preferences,Special:Watchlist','Special:Contributions/itsmywiki.com','Special:UserLogout&returnto=Special%3AContributions%2F$','User:$,User_talk:$');
$allowed = array('edit','history');
if (in_array($_GET['title'], $banned)) {
 // do nothing
} else {
if (in_array($_GET['action'], $allowed)) {
// do nothing
}
else {
echo '<center><div class="fb-comments" data-width="800" data-num-posts="100" data-colorscheme="dark"></div></center>';
}
}

 

if the $_GET['title'] is in that array, you do nothing. Try negating that (!in_array())

[james909]

thank you so much TOA and everyone else that helped!

 

i like that '$banned = array' it makes it very easy to add to :happy-04:

[james909]

a further question, what is the command for any text, like the '*' in google and file searches

 

so that pages with:

title=User_talk:joe_bloggs

title=User_talk:tom

title=User_talk:dick

title=User_talk:harry

 

are all covered

 

i tried 'User_talk*' and 'User_talk$' and didnt work