changing echos or functions

[Jazzy_Girl]

Hello, is there some sort of php function that will switch back and forth between different echos or similar on every next page load?

For instance if there was
echo $this;

and echo $that;

that the php would switch from one to the other on every next page load?

Or functions

this();

that(); switch between functions every other time?

Please let me know if php has anything like this, thanks a lot.

[reddrum]

How about this; use a javascript function onload that sets a cookie with the value being changed from 0 to 1 and back. then:

$i = $_cookie['name'];

if($i == 0){
   do this;
}
else{
  do that;
}

[NogDog]

Why use JavaScript when PHP has a perfectly good [man]setcookie/man function?

<?php
$toggle = (isset($_COOKIE['toggle']) and $_COOKIE['toggle'] == 1) ? 1 : -1;
switch($toggle)
{
   case 1:
      echo "Something";
      break;
   case -1:
      echo "Something else";
}
$toggle *= -1;
setcookie('toggle', $toggle, 0);

[Jazzy_Girl]

I'm surprised I would have thought php had some sort of function already for this, but the cookie is a great idea, I'll try it and see what happens, thanks for the great ideas! The php approach do prefer. If anyone else knows of any regular functions that do anything like this please let me know those also. Thank you very much.

[reddrum]

NogDog wrote:

Why use JavaScript when PHP has a perfectly good [man]setcookie/man function?

<?php
$toggle = (isset($_COOKIE['toggle']) and $_COOKIE['toggle'] == 1) ? 1 : -1;
switch($toggle)
{
   case 1:
      echo "Something";
      break;
   case -1:
      echo "Something else";
}
$toggle *= -1;
setcookie('toggle', $toggle, 0);

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