create function()

[michaelmuller]

Hey there, I'm new to PHP (coming from the CFM world) and need to create the PHP equivalent of the CFM function yesNoFormat() to convert BIT values from the db into "Yes" or "No" in the html output.

Is this function syntax correct?...

$yesNoFormat = create_function('$a', 'if ($a == "1") echo "Yes"; else echo "No"; ');

$yesNoFormat(row[aBitField]);

I'm not getting an error on the page when I include that code, but when I use the function I get nothing in the output. I mean, if $a isn't equal to 1 or even "1" I should get "No" in the output all the time, right? I'm just getting nothing.

Any advice?

[vortex]

To create a function in PHP, you use the function() function
So in this case, you could do:

function yesNoFormat($a) {
 if ($a == 1) {
 return 'Yes';
 } else {
 return 'No';
 }
}

Then to add it to a variable:

$yesNoFormat = yesNoFormat($row['abitField']);

Or to just echo it out:

 echo yesNoFormat($row['abitField']); 

Untested, but should work. :)

[michaelmuller]

Ok. So I have this in the code near the top of the page...

function yesNoFormat($a) { if ($a == 1) { return 'Yes'; } else { return 'No'; } }

... and then lower down the page I have this...

echo ("\n<tr><td>Full Time?</td><td>".$yesNoFormat($row[employmentFullTime])."</td></tr>");

... and the page stops rendering at that point, on the line above the echo code.

[michaelmuller]

Ah. Remove the $ from in front of the yesNoFormat(). Works.

Thanks!

Mik