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CaribouCode

Reputation: 14398

Call function with HTML inside tags

I'm new to PHP and recently discovered another way of doing 'if statements' to make integration with large amounts of HTML easier:

<?php if(something): ?>

All the HTML in here

<?php endif; ?>

Now I'm wondering if a similar thing can be done with functions? I've declared a function that creates some variables and now I want to call that function and use those variables in parts of my HTML.

E.g.

function test(){
  $test1 = 'test1';
  $test2 = 'test2';
}

test();
<div><?php $test1; ?></div>
<div><?php $test2; ?></div>

The above won't work because the variables created in the function are not global and I don't want to make them global. The function is declared in a separate php file.

My initial searches didn't turn up anything for this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 92

Answers (2)

Smuuf
Smuuf

Reputation: 6524

Ummm.. Using an array?

function test(){
  $result = array(); // Empty array
  $result['test1'] = 'test1';
  $result['test2'] = 'test2';
  return $result; // Return the array
}

$result = test(); // Get the resulting array
<div><?php $result['test1']; ?></div>
<div><?php $result['test2']; ?></div>

Or you could do it in kinda objective-y way:

function test(){
  $result = new stdClass; // Empty object
  $result->test1 = 'test1';
  $result->test2 = 'test2';
  return $result; // Return the object
}

$result = test(); // Get the resulting object
<div><?php $result->test1; ?></div>
<div><?php $result->test2; ?></div>

Upvotes: 2

Moduo
Moduo

Reputation: 623

You can use them if you return; them. Check http://php.net/manual/en/function.return.php for more details of the return; sintax.

Upvotes: 1

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