Question

A string looks like this:

<form id="unban" method="post" action="unban.php?uid=<? echo $uID; ?>">
                <input type="hidden" name="name" value="" /> 
                <a onclick="document.getElementById('unban').submit();">UnBan</a>
                </form>

And i need this to be echoed out with a load of other variables (as there are if statements so i cant just put it outisde php tags) however I cant find a way to store it in a variable and use it in the echo. My echo looks like:

echo "<tr><td>" . $row['username'] . "</td><td>" . $banBool . "</td><td>". $status ."</td><td>" . $row['full_name'] . "</td></tr>";

where $status would be the form above depending on an if statement.

Is there a way to hold it as a string and still do this?

Also, just to clarify the javascript syntax requires ‘target’ and doesnt allow “target”

Answer 1

You can write normal HTML within a PHP if-block – just close and re-open the PHP tags:

<?php
if($something == $somethingelse) {
    ?>
    <form id="unban" method="post" action="unban.php?uid=<?php echo $uID; ?>">
    ...
    </form>
    <?php
}

If you really need to hold it in a string, just make sure to escape whichever type of quotes are holding the string by adding a backslash before each one:

$status = '<form id="unban" method="post" action="unban.php?uid='.$uID.'">
            <input type="hidden" name="name" value="" /> 
            <a onclick="document.getElementById(\'unban\').submit();">UnBan</a>
            </form>

(Also notice you can’t do an echo within a variable – just concatenate the string with the variable)