<table> to echo/print from *if* statement

<table> to echo/print from if statement

crash3909

Hi,

I am trying to get a table in a form to appear on a preview page using an if statement. It is a long table with text area, text fields, etc.

I have tried what is below with no luck. It just prints out the table with } ?> underneath the table on the page. But if it worked properly, the table should not appear at all because URL2 was blank, at least that is what I am trying to achieve. Thanks for your help.

<?php
if ($URL2);
{
echo '<table name = "web2" width="80%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

  <tr> 
    <td colspan="3" align="center" valign="bottom"><strong><font size="2" face="Verdana">Web 
      Page # 2</font></strong></td>
  </tr>


   blah blah -- long table

</table>'
}

cgraz

A couple things:

You're ending your if statement with a semi-colon (right after your closing parentheses [ if ($URL2); ]. Get rid of it.
You're missing a semi-colon at the end of your echo()
To find out if $URL2 is empty, you could check the string length of the variable. If the string length is 0, it's empty. Here's an example:
```
if(strlen($URL2) == 0) {
   echo "variable URL2 is empty";
} else {
   echo "variable URL2 has a value";
}
```
Cgraz