php / html

[artiemus]

i have seen in some scripts that html resides in a php function
and that it is displayed when the function is called

how can i go about doing this............

[notionlogic]

Within the function you just echo out a string of HTML like this (rather dumb) example:

function paragraph($string)
{
  echo "<p>$string</p>";
}

[artiemus]

would this also work to display a of table with content

without re-using echo all the time

[siwis]

You can put anything you want into a function. You can even skip out of php into html if you've got large chucks of html and you want to avoid masses of echo commands

notionlogic's example is only lacking the call method!

But lets say you wanted a nice table with 1 row, 1 columd with a border and you wanted to use that table but with different text contents at different points in your script:

<?PHP
function tabletise($string) {
?>
<table border=1 width=100% cellspacing=2 cellpadding=3 bgcolor=#000000>
<tr>
<td valign=top bgcolor=#FFFFFF><?PHP echo $string; ?></tr>
</tr>
</table>
<?PHP
}
?>

Now in your script at the point where you want that function invoked you simply call it with

tabletise($mytextstring);