Help with VARIABLE $content="page content here"; ERROR

[lands]

Hey
ive got a problem with trying to create a variable$ ive got my web template in main.php which i want to include on every site, in the template ive got echo $content; so on my other pages ive got $content="full page coding here"...
however when im tring to put my index page into a variable im getting this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home//l/lands/user/htdocs/index.php on line 6

MY CODING AS FOLLOWS

<?php 

session_start();

$content="if(isset($_SESSION['userid'])) 
 { 

echo " <<<<<THIS WILL ALSO ERROR WHICH I WILL CHANGE ( " ) TO ( ' ) WHERE NESSESARY
</br>



</center>



<form id='comment' action='comment_check.php' method='post' accept-charset='UTF-8'>  

<input type='hidden' name='id' id='id' />  </br>
<input type='text' name='title' id='title' /><b><font color='#ffffff' size='3' face='arial'> Title</font></b>
<textarea rows='5' cols='93' wrap='physical' name='description' id='description'>
</textarea></br>
</td></tr><tr><td align='right'><input type='reset' name='reset' value='Reset' /><input type='submit' name='Submit' value='Submit' />  

</form> 
" ; 

}else{

echo "";

}
?>




</td></tr></table>





</td>
  </tr>
</table>

</center>
<center>
<table width="90%" border="0"><tr><td>


<?php 

$con = mysql_connect('');

if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db('', $con);

$result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM upload ORDER BY id DESC');

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))

{
  echo

 "<table border='0' width='100%'>
<tr><td align='left' valign='top' width='5%'>

<font size='3' color='#ffffff' face='arial'>
#" .$row['id']." - 
</font>

</td><td align='left' valign='top' width='95%'>

<font size='3' color='#ffffff' face='arial'><b>
".$row['title']."
</b></font>

</td></tr>
<tr><td>
</td><td valign='top' align='left' width='95%'>

<font size='3' color='#ffffff' face='arial'>
". $row['description']."
</font>

</td></tr>

<tr><td>

</td><td align='right' valign='top'>

<font size='2' color='#ffffff' face='arial'>
<b>Posted by ". $row['username']."</b>
</font>

</td></tr></table>

</font>" ; 
  echo "<hr />";

  }mysql_close($con);";

include("main.php");
 ?>

IF THERE IS A BETTER WAY THAN THIS ONE FOR NOT HAVING TO PUT YOUR TEMPLATE ON EVERYPAGE PLEASE TELL ME, ITS SO ANNOYING CHANGING ONE SIMPLE THING ON EVERYPAGE EACH TIME YOU NEED TO!!!

THANKS

[lands]

ive now sort of got something

$content="if(isset($_SESSION['userid']))

CHANGE TO

$content="if(isset($_SESSION[userid]))

also change a few( " ) here and there to ( ' ) and now its not exactly showing up as expected its got the odd 'if(isset()) { echo' AS TEXT here and there and my forms are all over the page, which means its not closed or got the right symbols somewhere and ideas

[bradgrafelman]

Why are you trying to store a bunch of PHP statements into a variable? PHP isn't going to look at the contents of that variable and see if it should evaluate it as PHP code or not... if you echo out $content, PHP is going to output exactly what you stored in that variable.

[lands]

bradgrafelman;10984989 wrote:

Why are you trying to store a bunch of PHP statements into a variable? PHP isn't going to look at the contents of that variable and see if it should evaluate it as PHP code or not... if you echo out $content, PHP is going to output exactly what you stored in that variable.

if it will output exactly what ive stored then shouldnt it work, because if its out putting ONLY SHOW THE LOGGIN FOR IF THE SESSION IS SET <<--not code terms-- it should do that right, it should work?

[lands]

loggin form** sorry

[bradgrafelman]

No, it won't work (at least not what you're trying to do).

You're trying to store PHP code inside of a variable. At that point, it's no longer "PHP code" - it's just a bunch of text that PHP is going to store in that variable verbatim. So this:

$test = 'foo!';

$content = "if($test == 'foo!') {
    echo 'Hello World!';
} else {
    echo 'Oops...';
}";

echo $content;

is going to output this to the user's screen:

if($test == 'foo!') {
    echo 'Hello World!';
} else {
    echo 'Oops...';
}

and they're going to wonder why you're displaying some weird language to them.

[lands]

how can this be done in another way that will work , ive done it somehow befor but cant remember

[leatherback]

so..

FIRST check whether someone is logged in. Then do the logic:

if($PersonIsLoggedIn)
  {
  // Do Logged In Stuff Here
  }
else
  {
  // Show login form
  }

You could create your template in a page. Load the page once you are done processing; You may set the content in variables, which you then use in the template. At the end of your code:

include_once('template.php');

[lands]

leatherback;10984994 wrote:

so..

FIRST check whether someone is logged in. Then do the logic:

if($PersonIsLoggedIn)
  {
  // Do Logged In Stuff Here
  }
else
  {
  // Show login form
  }

You could create your template in a page. Load the page once you are done processing; You may set the content in variables, which you then use in the template. At the end of your code:

include_once('template.php');

so the code i posted on this thread will happily site in that if and else and work

[lands]

How could i put that into a session like i was trying would it be

if(isset($_SESSION[userid]))
{
// Do Logged In Stuff Here
}
else
{
// Show login form
}

[lands]

leatherback;10984994 wrote:

so..

FIRST check whether someone is logged in. Then do the logic:

if($PersonIsLoggedIn)
  {
  // Do Logged In Stuff Here
  }
else
  {
  // Show login form
  }

You could create your template in a page. Load the page once you are done processing; You may set the content in variables, which you then use in the template. At the end of your code:

include_once('template.php');

i couldnt exactly do it that way either because i want to include this main.php and have each page in the center of main.php, if i just include it then the content will just be above everything, the way you have showed me above is just as good as typing it all out

[lands]

also its not just the loggin im trying to put inside a template, im tryin to include everypage (index, help, terms, userslist, userspage, comments etc etc) inside a template which involves a lot of codeing

[leatherback]

  $index = "";  

  $help = "";
  $terms = "";
  $userslist = "";
  $userspage = $loginform;
  $comments = """;

if(isset($_SESSION['userid']) $$ $_SESSION['userid'] <> '')
  {
  $index = "Something";  

  $help = create_help();
  $terms = $terms;  

  $userslist = get_users($id); 
  $userspage = get_user_page($id);
  $comments = "something else";
  }

require_once("template.php");

Should work fine.

[leatherback]

and the template (As in one of mine):

require(_HEADER_);
?>
<!-- Start the main container  -->


<div id="container" <?php if(isset($type)) {echo $type;} ?>>

  <!--  Start The Header Section  -->

  <div id="header">

<div class="header-in"><!-- --> &nbsp;
</div>

<div id="header-menu">    
  <?php
    if(isset($topmenu))
     {echo $topmenu;}
     else {echo "&nbsp;";}
  ?>        
</div>  

<div id="header-menu2">    
  <?php
    if(isset($topmenu2))
     {echo $topmenu2;}
     else {}
  ?>        
</div>

  </div>

  <!--  End Header   -->



  <!--  Start The Main Content   -->
  <div id="main1">

<div id="main2">


<?php
if(isset($mainbar))
  {
  echo $mainbar;
  }
?>
    <!--  Left Column   -->
      <div id="left">
        <div class="column-in">
          <p id="lccont">

        <?php
          if(isset($sidemenu))
            {echo $sidemenu;}
          else
            {echo "&nbsp;";}
       ?>

      </p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <!-- Right Column  -->    
  <div id="right">
    <div class="column-in">
      <p id="rccont">

        <!--	This is content of the RIGHT column. -->

        <?php
          if(isset($rightmenu) && $rightmenu <>"")
            {echo $rightmenu;}
          else
            {

			echo "&nbsp;

		}
        ?>

      </p>
    </div>
  </div>

  <!--   Middle Column   -->    

  <div id="middle">
    <div class="column-in">
      <div id="mconty"> 
	  <p>

    <?php
          if(isset($body))
            {echo $body;}
          else 
            {echo "&nbsp;";}
       ?>
      </p>		   
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>

  <!--   Clear section, leave empty -->    

  <div class="cleaner">
    &nbsp;
  </div>

</div>
  </div>

  <!--  End Main Content   -->
<?php
if(isset($noanalytics))
  {
  require(_NO_ANALITICS_FOOTER_);
  }
else
  {
  require(_FOOTER_);
  }
?>

[lands]

sorry i think youve missunderstood, i dont want everything on one page
basically index will have its code with the include page
users will have its code and the include page and so on and so on but when i try it the contents needs to be in the center of template i.e above the footer next to links and below header

so with variables which i no it dont work now would of worked, but only text would not coding(e.g selecting from a table)

i think the only way is to create 3 pages one for header one for side bar and other for footer and creating html tables will align it where it should be

everyone agree or any other ideas...

[leatherback]

Hi lands,

Not sure what you mean. In the end you want all in there don't you? My template is fed with one central page, which calls includes etc. All in all up to 20 scripts may be called before the final page is loaded. So I do not really see the point.

[johanafm]

Bulding on the code in your original example, this is how you do it (see how CODE is kept apart from STRING LITERALS?)

session_start();
if(isset($_SESSION['userid']))
{
	/* Instead of wrapping strings inside "" or '', you might want to use heredoc or nowdoc,
	*  since they allow you to have both " and ' inside the string without escaping them
	*  by usng \" and \'
	*  You can use any identifier you wish, in this case html. For heredoc, which uses string
	*  interpolation just like double quoted strings do, the syntax is <<<identifier and
	*  for nowdoc, which doesn't use string interpolation, the syntax is <<<'identifier'
	*/
	$content= <<<'html'
		<!-- no such tag -->
		</br>
	<!-- 	Why do you close an element that isn't part of $content inside $content?
			Keep ONLY content inside content, and the structure inside content should
			NEVER be dependendt on stuff outside content.
			If you need to close a tag, opened before content and before content is displayed,
			then close it before you assign stuff to $content.
			If you need to close a tag opened before content, but after content has been
			displayed, do so after $content.
	-->
	</center>
	<form id='comment' action='comment_check.php' method='post' accept-charset='UTF-8'>  

		<input type='hidden' name='id' id='id' />
		<!-- No such tag -->
		</br>
		<input type='text' name='title' id='title' /><b><font color='#ffffff' size='3' face='arial'>
		Title</font></b>
		<textarea rows='5' cols='93' wrap='physical' name='description' id='description'>
		</textarea>
		<!-- no such tag -->
		</br>
	<!-- 	This causes improper nesting of tags. This td was NOT opened inside your form,
			which means that you get the following structure
				<td><form></td></form>
			which makes absolutely no sense
	-->
	</td>
<!-- same as above...
</tr>
<tr>
	<td align='right'><input type='reset' name='reset' value='Reset' /><input type='submit' name='Submit' value='Submit' />
<!-- and now you've opened a tr inside the form but do not close it. improper nesting once again.
</form> 
html;
# here you use the above specified identifier to end the string. It MUST begin a new line

}
else
{
	$content = '';
}

Do note the comments in the html code since they point out html errors. You really should validate your code here.