Posted by Erwin Moller on 01/18/07 10:38

lister wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a situation where I have a large block of HTML code that is
> conditionally displayed. In effect I have:
>
> html page
> some html
>
> <?php
> if (bShowBlock)
> {
> //LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
> }
> else
> {
> //SOME OTHER LARGE BLOCK OF HTML
> }
>
> some more html
>
> What is the quickest and easiest way to do this? Echoing is not an
> option as I would have to escape eveything in the HTML blocks.
>
> Thanks,
> Lister

Hi Lister,

Just jump out of PHP, like this:

<?php
if (bShowBlock) {
?>
Use plain html here
<?php
} else {
?>
Use plain html here
<?php
}
?>

Alternatively you can include a file that contains the large piece of html,
in which case you just use something like :
require 'myLargeHTML1.html';


Regards,
Erwin Moller

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