Tech If statement problem :(

[Publisher Bucks]

<?php if($website) { ?><a href="http://<?php echo $website; ?>" target="<?php echo $name; ?>"><?php echo $name; ?></a><?php } ?>

Any idea why this is removing the $name field completely in addition to the link?

All Im trying to get it to do is still display the name, just remove the href link if no website is included in the DB

[redwhiteandblue]

Because if the condition in the if statement is false, none of the code inside the curly braces will execute.

[Publisher Bucks]

Originally Posted by redwhiteandblue

Because if the condition in the if statement is false, none of the code inside the curly braces will execute.

Gotcha, thank you!

[redwhiteandblue]

BTW, rather than writing

<?php echo $website; ?>

you can shorten this to

<?=$website;?>

[Publisher Bucks]

Originally Posted by redwhiteandblue

BTW, rather than writing

<?php echo $website; ?>

you can shorten this to

<?=$website;?>

Good to know!

I was actually going to post in a few weeks to see where I could shorten some of the code I'm using on my admin system and I'm sure its over-inflated, but I need to get things finished up with it first.

[sarettah]

Be careful using short codes. They require an ini setting that is not always turned on. So code that works on one server may not work on another.

It can also lead to some issues when dealing with xml which also uses an <? ?> Syntax.

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[redwhiteandblue]

Originally Posted by sarettah

Be careful using short codes. They require an ini setting that is not always turned on. So code that works on one server may not work on another.

It can also lead to some issues when dealing with xml which also uses an <? ?> Syntax.

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You're talking about short open tags - <? ... ?> which are possibly being deprecated.

The short echo tags <?= ... ?> are not dependent on an ini setting https://www.php.net/manual/en/langua...ax.phptags.php and there's no proposal to deprecate them.
They are actually line 1 of the PSR-1 coding standard https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-1/

Not that anyone actually follows that...

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by redwhiteandblue

You're talking about short open tags - <? ... ?> which are possibly being deprecated.

The short echo tags <?= ... ?> are not dependent on an ini setting https://www.php.net/manual/en/langua...ax.phptags.php and there's no proposal to deprecate them.
They are actually line 1 of the PSR-1 coding standard https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-1/

Not that anyone actually follows that...

Interdasting. I learn something new about every 2 minutes.

Thanks for that.

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