How do I direct inline HTML to a variable? - php

Question

This PHP code outputs HTML to the user.
<div class="whole">
<input type="hidden" class="hid" name="hid" value="<?php echo $datum['id']; ?>">
<div class="col1"> <div class="d1" id="naam<?php echo $datum['id']; ?>"><?php echo $datum['name']; ?></div>
</div>
<div class="col2"> <div class="d2" id="email<?php echo $datum['id']; ?>"><?php echo $datum['email']; ?></div>
</div>
<div class="col3"> <div class="d3" id="state<?php echo $datum['id']; ?>"><?php echo $datum['state']; ?></div>
</div>
<div class="col4"> <div class="d4" id="gender<?php echo $datum['id']; ?>"><?php echo $datum['gender']; ?></div>
</div>
<div class="col5"> <div class="d5" id="lang<?php echo $datum['id']; ?>"><?php echo $datum['lang']; ?></div>
</div>
<div class="col6">
<?php
echo "<a href='images/".$datum['image']."' data-lightbox='picbox' data-title='".$datum['image']."'> <img src='images/".$datum['image']."'></a>";
?>
</div>
</div>
Instead of sending this output to the user, I want it in the variable $output. How can I do this?

Answer 1

You can use Jquery to get HTML code inside your div:
$( document ).ready(function() {
data = $(".whole").html();
console.log(data);
});
Where data is:
<input type="hidden" class="hid" name="hid" value="<?php echo $datum['id']; ?>">
<div class="col1"> <div class="d1" id="naam<?php echo $datum['id']; ?>"><!--?php echo $datum['name']; ?--></div>
</div>
<div class="col2"> <div class="d2" id="email<?php echo $datum['id']; ?>"><!--?php echo $datum['email']; ?--></div>
</div>
<div class="col3"> <div class="d3" id="state<?php echo $datum['id']; ?>"><!--?php echo $datum['state']; ?--></div>
</div>
<div class="col4"> <div class="d4" id="gender<?php echo $datum['id']; ?>"><!--?php echo $datum['gender']; ?--></div>
</div>
<div class="col5"> <div class="d5" id="lang<?php echo $datum['id']; ?>"><!--?php echo $datum['lang']; ?--></div>
</div>
<div class="col6">
<!--?php
echo "<a href='images/".$datum['image']."' data-lightbox='picbox' data-title='".$datum['image']."'--> <img src="images/".$datum[" image']."'="">";
?>
After that you can send data to PHP via AJAX

Answer 2

<?php
ob_start();
?>
your html goes here
<?php
$html = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

Answer 3

Use heredoc syntax, like so:
$output = <<<ANY_IDENTIFIER_THAT_DOES_NOT_APPEAR_IN_THE_TEXT_HERE
<div class="whole">
<input type="hidden" class="hid" name="hid" value="{$datum['id']}">
<div class="col1"> <div class="d1" id="naam{$datum['id']}">{$datum['name']}</div>
</div>
<div class="col2"> <div class="d2" id="email{$datum['id']}">{$datum['email']}</div>
</div>
<div class="col3"> <div class="d3" id="state{$datum['id']}">{$datum['state']}</div>
</div>
<div class="col4"> <div class="d4" id="gender{$datum['id']}">{$datum['gender']}</div>
</div>
<div class="col5"> <div class="d5" id="lang{$datum['id']}">{$datum['lang']}</div>
</div>
<div class="col6">
<a href='images/{$datum['image']}' data-lightbox='picbox' data-title='{$datum['image']}'> <img src='images/{$datum['image']}'></a>
</div>
</div>
ANY_IDENTIFIER_THAT_DOES_NOT_APPEAR_IN_THE_TEXT_HERE;
This last part must be exactly the same identifier as at the beginning, unindented and followed by a semicolon.
Also, note that I took out all of the <?php ?> sections, and replaced them with {$datum['image']} accesses (unless I missed one). Heredocs in PHP work just like "double quoted strings", except spread across multiple lines and able to include " marks.
For more information, see the PHP documentation on string syntax.