Php function in echo? Is it possible? - php

Question

Hi I have a special problem ... I have three values from database.
Value1 is 1 or 0
Value2 is again 1 or 0
Value3 is remaining time like (24 hours left, 23, ...)
There values are saved in variables:
$value1
$value2
$value3
These values change from DB on every load from webpage. I have these values also inside echo""; The php function is already like:
echo"text text text .................
"Value 1 is:" . $value1 . " and value 2 is:" . $value2 . ""
..................;
I need a function that says different things like
if (value1=0)
echo "Only text"
else
echo "Value 1 is:" . $value1 . " and value 2 is:" . $value2 . "";
this to be in another echo function from first example so in my way it looks like this:
*Some function*
echo"if (value1=0)
echo "Only text"
else
echo "Value 1 is:" . $value1 . " and value 2 is:" . $value2 . """; // two echo closing
But it does not work. Any help will be appreciated.How to solve this? thank you.

Answer 1

Echo is saying to output whatever you type. Saying to output "echo" actually means to display the word "echo". There's no reason to output an output... you already output it!
I think what you want is something more like:
if($value1 == 0){
echo "Only text";
} else {
echo "Value 1 is:" . $value1 . " and value 2 is:" . $value2;
}

Answer 2

Your second piece of code looks fine. Having multiple echo statements is not a problem, and using if...else to choose one is perfectly reasonable.
If you have to use just one for some reason, you can use the (...) ? ... : ... ternary operator.
echo (value1 == 0) ? 'Only text' : "Value 1 is:" . $value1 . " and value 2 is:" . $value2 . """;

Answer 3

function chVal($value1, $value2) {
if ($value1 == 0) {
echo "Only text";
} else {
echo "Value 1 is:" . $value1 . " and Value 2 is:" . $value2;
}
}
Is that what you are looking for?
EDIT: I think I get what you mean.
function chVal ($val) {
if ($val == 0) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
if ($value1) {
echo "Value 1 is:" . $value1 . "\n";
} else {
echo "Only Text\n";
}
if ($value2) {
echo "Value 2 is:" . $value2 . "\n";
} else {
echo "Only Text\n";
}

Answer 4

Please use value1==0. Basically = means you assign the value 0 into the variable value1.

Answer 5

Why not use something like this:
echo "Value 1 : ".func1($value1)." - Value 2 : ".func2($value2)." - Value 3 : ".func3($value3);
then you may have 3 functions or 1 depending on how complex is your logic.
function func1($value){
if ($value == 0) return " zero ";
else return " else ";
}

Answer 6

Probably in this way,
echo 'if (value1=0)
echo "Only text"
else
echo "Value 1 is:"' . $value1 . " and value 2 is:" . $value2 ;

Answer 7

How about something like:
<?php
$value1=0;
$value2=1;
echo ($value1==0) ? "value 1 is :".$value1." and value 2 is ".$value2 : "only text";
?>

Answer 8

Is this what you're looking for?
I think you're looking to display the PHP code itself: http://se.php.net/manual/en/function.highlight-string.php
<?php
highlight_string('
function chkValue($value1,$value2) {
if($value1 == 0) {
echo "Only Text<br />";
} else {
echo "Value 1 is: ".$value1." and Value 2 is: ".$value2."<br />";
}
}
');
?>

Answer 9

It's very hard to tell what you're trying to achieve, but based on some of your other comments I'm beginning to suspect you want to echo PHP code:
$value = ($value == 0 ? 'Only Text' : "Value 1 is:$value1 and value2 is: $value2");
echo "echo \"$value\";";
update:
Yes thats it! Working but I need different colors for the two texts :-) How to add there?
I'm assuming you're outputting the text to a browser, so something like this will work:
$value = '<span style="color:#'
. ($value == 0 ? 'f00">Only Text' : "0f0\">Value 1 is: $value1 and value2 is: $value2")
. '</span>';
echo "echo \"$value\";";

Answer 10

echo ($value1 == 0)?'Yes':'No';