help with an if...

liquidoc

hi there,
i'm trying to set up a page to display the following info: name, relationship, image name, img align, description, and a personal quote. not all of the fields will have entries (specifically description and quote), and i have a couple of ifs set up to keep them out. i can keep description out, but quote is causing problems. an example of the txt file i'm using (i'm working on the mysql later) is as follows:
name;rel;img;align;description;quote
name;rel;img;align;description;quote
with line breaks to separate. here's the if i'm using (it's not great, i know):

$quote = eregi_replace("\n", " ", $quote);
 /* make sure there's a quote */
 if( $quote != "" && $quote != " \n" ) {
   print("<p class=\"quote\">\"$quote\"</p>");
 } else {
   print(" ");
 }

i'm not sure if i'm just missing something simple, or if i should try something else altogether... i'm not sure if it's a line break, or something else. i've tried isset() too, and it still wouldn't work. thanks.

[dave]

tha_mink

Here's one way....

$quote = eregi_replace("\n", " ", $quote);
 /* make sure there's a quote */
 if (( $quote != "") && ($quote != " \n" )) {
   print("<p class=\"quote\">\"$quote\"</p>");
 } else {
   print(" ");
 }

Here's another...

$quote = eregi_replace("\n", " ", $quote);
 /* make sure there's a quote */
 if ((!empty($quote) && ($quote != " \n" )) {
   print("<p class=\"quote\">\"$quote\"</p>");
 } else {
   print(" ");
 }

the first way would work, you just need to add the parentheses.

That said, you could just print $quote and remove that eregi call...if $quote is empty or is a "\n"...it will print either nothing or a \n which wouldn't ruin your fomatting either way. OR you could strip the \n if you really wanted to...but you shouldn't have to unless you care what your HTML source looks like. (\n will force a newline in the source but not the HTML output)...

either way really

tha_mink

bastien

sicne you're using a text file why not use the [man]file/man function to open the file and read it into an array based on end of lines..then loop through the array

you can then explode the lines of data on the ';'

then just test for the existance of any of the values