if else with in a variable

[iainsmith4]

Hi all, new to the forum, can any one offer any advice...

I am trying to create a varibale called $message and assign to that variable a mixture of string and if/ else strings of text for example

$this = "yes";

$message = "hello my name is iain ". if ($this == "yes"){ //do this} else { // do this }."More text here";

So basiclly can I store or run php statement with inside a variable? if so how!

as I get the following error when trying to:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IF in C:\wamp\www\gofindResponseReports\emailTests\emailV1.php on line 108

Thanks.

[Matthew1980]

Hi there IainSmith4,

Welcome to the forum!

With regards to your question, the easiest way to achieve this is by doing something like this:-

$message = "hello my name is iain ".(isset($this) && ($this == "yes") ? 'do this as its true' : 'do this as its false')."More text here";

Basically, if I have written this correctly ;-p, if the var ($this) is set and its equal to yes, then echo the contents before the colon. If its false echo the contents after the colon.

All that I have done otherwise is concatonate the value into the echoed string, I hope that makes sense!

Disclaimer: I wrote this without testing it, but you should be OK.

Cheers,

MRb

[rocknbil]

You canot use $this as a "regular" variable, it is for usage in classes and functions, referring to the current object.

The ternary operator is your friend. :-) Couldn't get it to work in a concatenate there though, which I don't understand because I've done it before. Anyway . . . .

<?php
header("content-type:text/html");
$thisvar = "yes";
//$thisvar = "no";
echo "hello my name is iain ";
echo ($thisvar=="yes")?" welcome aboard!":" Hey you haven't signed up yet!";
?>

[Matthew1980]

Hey there rocknbil,

Funny you should mention the issue of the use of $this, it dawned on me a shortly after I had posted that it was a reserved name. I should have amended my post :-p

As for the concatenation, it works fine for me:-

//$string = "yes";
$string = "no";
$message = "hello my name is iain ".(isset($string) && ($string == "yes") ? 'do this as its true' : 'do this as its false')."More text here";

echo $message;

Just that when you said it didn't work, I was curious...

Cheers,

MRb

[rocknbil]

<shrug> Mine kept echoing "welcome aboard" in a one liner even when I set $thisvar = no. It should have worked, but was too busy to fuss about it. :-P

[iainsmith4]

Hi all thanks for the warm welcome, and feedback.

I have not as of yet used the scripting in that form, but I will give the above ago and see if I can make sense of it.

Can the same logic be applied to data directly from a recordset for a database,

ie.

Recordset called $rsGetCategory

$message = "hello my name is iain ".(isset($rsGetCategory['image']) && ($rsGetCategory['image'] == "y") ? 'do this as its true' : 'do this as its false')."More text here";

As this is what i will want to achieve, I am trying to build a HTML email with unique content to the each email address stored.

Thanks

[Matthew1980]

Hi there IainSmith4,

From the example that you have provided it will do the job that you are asking of it. Unless I'm that tired and havn't noticed anything glaringly obvious ;-)

Good luck coding the rest of the email template too!

Cheers,

MRb

[iainsmith4]

Hi Matthew1980, thanks for your reply I will give this ago this morning and hopefully crack it! thanks for your help :)

[iainsmith4]

Success! I got a working HTML to my email address with data from my database displaying!

Thanks all.