[SOLVED] Really Easy Question - PHP ECHO

C4talyst · October 1, 2007

Hey there again freaks! Say I want to echo a really large block of html. How do I do this without the least amount of php code, meaning I dont want to echo ""; every line. Can I just echo the whole large chunk of html somehow? Thanks!

pocobueno1388 · October 1, 2007

You can do it this way:

<?php

print<<<HERE

    All your HTML/text goes here. All your HTML/text goes here. All your HTML/text goes here.
    All your HTML/text goes here. All your HTML/text goes here. All your HTML/text goes here.
    All your HTML/text goes here. All your HTML/text goes here. All your HTML/text goes here.
    All your HTML/text goes here. All your HTML/text goes here. All your HTML/text goes here.

HERE;

?>

BlueSkyIS · October 1, 2007

another alternative is to leave PHP and place plain HTML in between tags:

<?php

// Some PHP code here...

?>

<HTML>

<BODY>

just plain HTML in here

<?php

// more PHP code in here...

?>

Back to plain HTML

</BODY>

</HTML>

C4talyst · October 1, 2007

Thanks guys...obviously I'm a huge noob.

pocobueno1388 · October 1, 2007

Don't forget to solve the topic

weemikey · October 1, 2007

I build HTML in a big variable and then echo the variable at the end. I don't know what's "right" in programming, I just try to make it work.

LemonInflux · October 1, 2007

Another alternative would be to write the bit you want echo'ing, save it as a .txt somewhere, and call it from there.

C4talyst · October 1, 2007

Ahh, thanks so much for all this information guys. I think I may need some more help with this though. Basically I took some code I found in a tutorial online for password protecting some of my content. The password code has an echo line where the original author states to insert your content. Well, my content contains additional php coding and that's causing some problems. This is the page in question:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<head>

    <title>ACDC Membership Database</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
    <meta name="Robots" content="index,follow">
    <style type="text/css">@import "style.css";</style>

</head>

<body>

<?php
include("config.php");
$cookuser = $_COOKIE["cookuser"];
$cookpass = $_COOKIE["cookpass"];
$adminpass = md5($adminpass);
if($cookuser && $cookpass) {
    if(($cookuser == $adminuser) && ($cookpass == $adminpass)){
    echo("You have successfully logged in!");
    //Paste protected content here:


echo "<div id=\"mdb_top\">";
echo "<div id=\"mdb_nav\" style=\"padding: 2px;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"index.php\">MDB Home</a> | <a href=\"add.php\">Add Nation</a> | <a href=\"search.php\">Find Nation</a></div>";
echo "</div>";
     
echo "      <table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"3\" width=\"700\">";
echo "       <tr>";
echo "        <td width=\"700\" colspan=\"6\" bgcolor=\"#414B3F\">";
echo "        <h3>ACDC Membership Database</h3>";
echo "        </td>";
echo "       </tr>";
echo "       <tr>";
echo "      	<td width=\"100\" bgcolor=\"#768872\"  valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">";
echo "      	 <b>ID</b>";
echo "      	</td>";
echo "      	<td width=\"130\" bgcolor=\"#768872\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">";
echo "      	 <b>Nation</b>";
echo "      	</td>";
echo "      	<td width=\"130\" bgcolor=\"#768872\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">";
echo "      	 <b>Ruler</b>";
echo "      	</td>";
echo "      	<td width=\"120\" bgcolor=\"#768872\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">";
echo "      	 <b>ACDC User</b>";
echo "      	</td>";
echo "     	<td width=\"120\" bgcolor=\"#768872\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">";
echo "      	 <b>Position</b>";
echo "      	</td>";
echo "      	<td width=\"100\" bgcolor=\"#768872\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">";
echo "      	 <b>Commands</b>";
echo "      	</td>";
echo "     </tr>";

        <?
        //connect to mysql
        //change user and password to your mySQL name and password
        mysql_connect("localhost","username","password");
        	
        //select which database you want to edit
        mysql_select_db("database"); 
        
        //select the table
        $result = mysql_query("select * from members limit 30");
        
        //grab all the content
        while($r=mysql_fetch_array($result))
        {

           $id=$r["id"];
           $cnnation=$r["cnnation"];
           $cnruler=$r["cnruler"];
           $acdcuser=$r["acdcuser"];
           $positions=$r["positions"];
           $nationlink=$r["nationlink"];
           
           //display the row
           echo "<tr>";
           echo "<td width=\"100\" bgcolor=\"#9DAB9B\"  valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">";
           echo "$id";
           echo "</td>";
           echo "<td width=\"130\" bgcolor=\"#9DAB9B\"  valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">";
           echo "<a href=\"$nationlink\" target=\"_blank\">$cnnation</a>";
           echo "</td>";
           echo "<td width=\"130\" bgcolor=\"#9DAB9B\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">";
           echo "$cnruler";
           echo "</td>";
           echo "<td width=\"120\" bgcolor=\"#9DAB9B\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">";
           echo "$acdcuser";
           echo "</td>";
           echo "<td width=\"120\" bgcolor=\"#9DAB9B\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">";
           echo "$positions";
           echo "</td>";
           echo "<td width=\"100\" bgcolor=\"#9DAB9B\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">";
           echo "<a href='edit.php?cmd=edit&id=$id'>Edit</a> | <a href='delete.php?cmd=delete&id=$id'>Delete</a>";
           echo "</td>";
           echo "</tr>";
        }

        ?>

echo "     </table>";

     
    }
    else{
    echo($incorrect_error_message);
    }
}
else{
echo($not_logged_in_message_error_message);
}
?>

</body>

The <? line just before //connect to mysql is the one kicking out an error. I know I should really get some books and php and dig into them, but I kinda need to get this done soon. This is my intro to php/mysql. Thanks so much for all the help.

trq · October 1, 2007

Remove the <?

C4talyst · October 1, 2007

Really? Should I remove the ?> that closes it as well?

pocobueno1388 · October 1, 2007

Really? Should I remove the ?> that closes it as well?

Yes, because you have PHP below it...so it won't be executed.

MmmVomit · October 1, 2007

You need to make sure any echo statement is between PHP tags.

<?php

echo 'foo';

echo 'bar';

?>

You've currently got opening and closing PHP tags all over the place with no rhyme or reason.

Here are two different approaches.

<?php

// code
// code
// code

$var = "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting 
industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever 
since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and 
scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five 
centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially 
unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets 
containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing 
software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. ";

echo $var;

// more code

?>

OR

<?php

// code
// code
// code

?>
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting 
industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever 
since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and 
scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five 
centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially 
unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets 
containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing 
software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. 
<?php

// more code

?>

I prefer the second approach. Do you see how I exited PHP mode and simply wrote out everything instead of using the echo command?

C4talyst · October 1, 2007

Thank you guys so much! Vomit, I'm using this code to enable a passwd protected page:

<?php
include("config.php");
$cookuser = $_COOKIE["cookuser"];
$cookpass = $_COOKIE["cookpass"];
$adminpass = md5($adminpass);
if($cookuser && $cookpass) {
    if(($cookuser == $adminuser) && ($cookpass == $adminpass)){
    echo("You have successfully logged in!");

}
else{
echo($incorrect_error_message);
}
}
else{
echo($not_logged_in_message_error_message);
}
?>

See this line: echo("You have successfully logged in!");

I need to replace that with about 100 lines of html that also includes more php code. So I can't figure out how to get around that and use your suggestion. It seems like I _have_ to embed more php code in there. I'm terribly sorry for my ignorance on this, I'm probably making some of you dumber for having read this.

C4talyst · October 1, 2007

I'm starting to understand...slowly.

pocobueno1388 · October 1, 2007

If you need to print a large chunk of HTML that has bits of PHP in it, use the example I gave you in my first post.

C4talyst · October 1, 2007

Got it working using your second approach Vomit, thanks so much. Just took me awhile to figure out how to open and close the php throughout the page. This forum is really great, thanks all of you. I'll be sure to mark my topics resolved.

C4talyst · October 1, 2007

If you need to print a large chunk of HTML that has bits of PHP in it, use the example I gave you in my first post.

Hey poco, I tried that but I kept getting a T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE error, even after I removed all the blank spaces. Your method is greatly appreciated though and I will likely refer to this thread again later. Thanks!

pocobueno1388 · October 1, 2007

It's probably because you don't have the last line at the very left of your text editor.

<?php

   print<<<HERE
       blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 
       blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 
       blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 

HERE; //<---This line has to be all the way to the left

?>

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