Thread: How to insert variable html into php

Hi... I'm a newbie and I was wondering how you insert variable html into php?

I was impressed by this example:

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What happens here is, you fill in a variable URL in the webform and the content of that website appears in your own site (using a frame).

I wondered how I could do this...?

I'm pretty good in html but newbie with php. Actually I'm a Drupal user.

It would be so great to receive some usefull information. Thanks!

Evdv

Can't help you with Drupal, but here's the new thinking you need to develop: PHP is entirely different from HTML because PHP is only meaningful on the server, before anything is sent to the browser. Your web server (Apache or IIS) parses any PHP contained in a file and generally outputs HTML (and perhaps Javascript) to the browser. The PHP is no longer part of what the browser sees.

So when you ask how to insert PHP into HTML, that doesn't mean much. What you do is to use PHP to determine what HTML to send to the browser.

You can either use PHP's echo (or print) commands to send whatever you want--HTML or Javascript or whatever--to the browser, or you can mix PHP into your HTML where you need to insert some variable bit of HTML or plain text or whatever. Whenever the web server sees <?php it begins parsing the PHP until it sees ?>.

So, you can do something like this:

PHP Code:

...
<table>
   <tr>
      <td>Hello World</td>
   </tr>
<?php
   if($_GET['mydata']=='romeo') {
      echo "<tr><td>Hello, Romeo</td></tr>";
   }
?>
</table>
...