Simple Includes?

[Anon]

I am moving from asp to php and I am having trouble with a simple type of include. I just want my page to pull it's info from a few include files so the page is mainly server generated. I tried the asp2php but that didn't work. This what I am using for asp.

<%

sub makeMenu(category)

select case ucase(category)
case "SERVICESSIDE"
	call makeServicesSideMenu
case "ABOUTSIDE"
	call makeAboutSideMenu
case else
	call makeShopNav
end select

end sub

sub makeServicesSideMenu
%>

I then have the page include the file with this

<!--#include virtual="/include/master_include_ly.asp"-->

And I call it from the page with this

<%
call makeNavBar("SERVICES")
%>

Could someone point me to a tutorial on this or help me out. I don't necessarily even need that much logic in it. Just a simple page would do fine for me.

Kode

[Anon]

<?PHP

include( 'blah.inc' );
blah_make_menu( 'LEFT-SIDE' );

?>

... blah.inc:

<?PHP
function blah_make_menu( $var )
{
if( $var == 'LEFT-SIDE' )
{
echo "<a href=....>...</a>";
echo "<a href=....>...</a>"; echo "<a href=....>...</a>";
echo "<a href=....>...</a>";
}
else
{
echo "<font color=red>Unknown!</font>";
}
return;
}
?>

--Robert

[Anon]

Ok, that is easy enough. Thank you. Is there a way to have it echo a large lump of html without having to format the html with echo comments?

[Anon]

You can drop in and out of PHP mode anytime:

<? if(expression) : ?>

<p>Hello!</p>

<? else: ?>

<p>Goodbye</p>

<? endif; ?>

[Anon]

Mike this is what I am looking for. I am not quite sure how php does expressions so could you hold my hand and tell me a working example like if I had this as the address

main.php3?id=home

I have an include file already that is do this

<?php
include("$id.inc");
?>

This is work great but I have bread crumbs on the page as well and I would like it to run all on the same query. So it looks like your solution is exactly what I am looking for but could you get more precise.

Is this right?

<? if(home) : ?>

<p>home!</p>

<? if(news) : ?>

<p>news!</p>

<? else: ?>

<p>main</p>

<? endif; ?>

thanks guys for your help, I am just ahving a hard time grabbing this php.

[Anon]

You're close. What you want is:

<? if($id == "home") : ?>

<p>home!</p>

<? elseif($id == "news") : ?>

<p>news!</p>

<? else: ?>

<p>main</p>

<? endif; ?>

Or you could use a switch:

<?
switch($id) {
case "home" :
?><p>home</p><?
break;

 case "news" :
 ?><p>news</p><?
 break;

 default:
 ?><p>main</p><?
 break;

}
?>

/Mike

[Anon]

Mike thank you so much, this will help me so much. Is either of the options the better way to go or just prefrence? Looks like the first is easiest, but looks like the second would process faster. Would that be correct?

Kode

[Anon]

That is my understanding of it

:-)