Positioning text

oldcelt

I have a simple page containing php and some html. Based on a condition test I want to echo (or print) a single sentence but I want to position that text on my page. I can't seem to get the syntax right to mix php and html to position it.

All advice gratefully received and appreciated.
:bemused:

bpat1434

What have you tried so far? What does your current code look like? What you have already that you can give us will help us. Also, what kind of positioning are you trying to do?

pics

why not set some variables?

<?
$html = "testing my html to see how it works";
?>
<html>
<body>
Whats PHP Say?<br>
<? echo $html; ?>
</body>
</html>

pics

you can also try using a templating system if you're comfortable with HTML and PHP.

Try using Smarty, it was put out by PHP developers a few years back.

oldcelt

Reply to first response. Extract from my php code is:-

<?
if(!empty($_POST['myname']) && !empty($_POST['palname']) && !empty($_POST['palemail']) && preg_match("/^([a-z0-9\+_\-]+)(\.[a-z0-9\+_\-]+)*@([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$/ix", $_POST['palemail'])){
	$subject="From: ".$_POST['myname']."\n";
	$message="Content goes in here\n";
	mail($_POST['palemail'],$subject,$message);}
	else {
	// now I want to post a message depending on which POST was empty or non-conforming
	// The page has a logo and some permanent text (HTML) and I want
	// error messages to appear below the HTML content.
        }
?>

bpat1434

Okay, so put your HTMl content above the <?php opening tag, then echo out what you want in the else{} block.

oldcelt

Thanks, I'll try that