Echo if else statement inside a echo? Is this possible?

SeanKann

I have a page that uses phpmailer() to send emails. Works great. Does everything I need. And I need to do a if else statement inside the echo of $body

This is the code I'd like to run. By itself it works fine

<?php

$url = "http://www.example.com/problem_pic.jpg";

$file_headers = @get_headers($url);
if($file_headers[0] == 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found') {
echo '';
} else {
echo "Here is a picture of the problem<br>";
echo "<td><a href='$url'>Problem Pic</a></td>";
}
?>

But I wanted it used within a echo

Example of the code of what I'm doing with phpmailer

$mail->AddAddress = "user@somedomain.com";
$mail->Body = "
<html>
<body>
Hello $user,<br>
Here is some information on the problem<br><br>
$problem<br>
##Here is where I need the if else statement to insert the picture if there is one
<br>
If you have any questions please let me know<br>
Thanks,<br>
Admin";

I can't figure out how to get that if else statement to work inside my echo.

Is there anything I'm missing? Or am I over thinking this?

Let me know

TIA

Sean

NogDog

You can use the ".=" operator to append text to a string variable, e.g.:

$foo = "This is a test.";
if(1 == 1) {
   $foo .= " It is only a test.";
}
else {
   $foo .= " Just kidding.";
}

sneakyimp

Firstly, do you really want to echo this information or do you want to add it to your mail message? Using echo won't add any additional information to your mail message.

Second, you could use your if statement to assign the appropriate data to a variable and then just echo the variable:

 <?php

$url = "http://www.example.com/problem_pic.jpg";

$file_headers = @get_headers($url);
if($file_headers[0] == 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found') {
  $text_to_echo = "";
} else {
  $text_to_echo = "Here is a picture of the problem<br>";
  $text_to_echo .= "<td><a href='$url'>Problem Pic</a></td>";
}

echo $text_to_echo;
?>