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Imtay22

Mar 20 2007, 09:57 PM

Hello Friiks, again I have a question about this syntax. I have multiple lines of code i would like to put in the

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echo 'This is page two';

part of the code. When i try to have line breaks, it comes up with-

QUOTE

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/imtay22/public_html/runescape/news.php on line 16

Help?!

friiks

Mar 20 2007, 10:01 PM

CODE

echo 'This is a linebreaked text w00t';
[code]
or
you can use echo like this...
[code]
echo <<<END
Your long linebreaked etc. text here
END;

Im too tired and sleepy to explain so just google echo php and look for php.net ..

jlhaslip

Mar 20 2007, 11:25 PM

Anyone reading this Thread might also be interested in this reply to a question about implementing Friik's code by another member.
Actually it is the same question as Imtay posted...

matak

Mar 22 2007, 04:59 PM

After a while struggling with PHP arrays in order to build even more dynamic, more like administrator friendly dynamic links i figured out it could be done this way. First we need to build ourselves an associative array like this

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$glavni_linkovi = array(
            "Index" => "This is the index file!",
            "Link1" => "This is path to link1!!",
            "Link2" => "This is path to link2!!",
            "Link3" => "This is path to link3!! :)"
        );

After we made our array with foreach statement we can make our links. I made it something like this

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foreach ($glavni_linkovi as $gl_li => $gl_li_path) {
echo '<a href="?p='.$gl_li_path.'">'.$gl_li.'</a> ';
}

Now we go to the part where we use $_GET like posted above to use that associative array in our page. Code looks a bit messy but it's couse i didn't know any other way to use Default switch with foreach statement.. Here's the code

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$page = $_GET['p'];
if ($page == "") {
    echo $glavni_linkovi['Index'];
}
else {
foreach ($glavni_linkovi as $gl_li => $gl_li_path) {
switch($page) {
    case $gl_li_path:
    echo $gl_li_path;
    break;
}
}
}

This can be quite handy beacouse we don't need to write switch statement every time when we create link. Also we don't need to write links manualy, beacouse they are created automaticly when added to associative array..
Hope u Like this example. Here's how it works. Link. And here's the download zippy if you don't understand how to implement it in webpage..Zippy

Thanks to all trap17 coders!
matak

jlhaslip

Mar 22 2007, 05:36 PM

Nice code, but use the following query string to see what happens.

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p=test

You need to find a way to always end up at the index.php page, otherwise the client gets a header with no "page" content.
Also, move the array outside the page code to a text file so the entire page doesn't need to be editted, only the text file. Makes it a bit more user friendly. ( and safer to update the link array without damaging the page )

Keep trying.

http://www.trap17.com/forums/templating-sy...des-t35271.html
(I'll send the zip if you want. I took it off the net due to a small (potential) security problem)

reconraiders

Jun 10 2007, 07:13 PM

A while back I used something like this but for some reason the links were getting messed up. Whenever I would click a link with parameters in it (?page=2&action=view) from a page that already had parameters in the url, it would add the parameters to the page. I would end up going to a url "index.php?page=1&action=add?page=2&action=view". I didn't understand why. Is there a setting in php to adjust to fix this?

jlhaslip

Jun 10 2007, 07:41 PM

reconraiders,

post your source code in a new thread, please.

Chances are that you are adding the new query string onto the end of the existing, instead of clearing the old query string first.

Mariana

Jun 11 2007, 01:45 AM

Yay, that was very helpful..

Thanks =3

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