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Tarkenfire
Tarkenfire

Reputation: 199

Conditional PHP to show different HTML blocks

I'm working on a login system for a website in which the top right corner will change depending on whether or not the user is "signed in" (a check against a session variable). I am using the following to try and show only one these two states.

        <?php if(isset($_SESSION['id'])): ?>
            <div class="large-2 large-offset-5 columns">
                <p class="right text-pad-top">@MuffinTheFox</p>
            </div>

            <div class="large-1 columns">
                <img class="avatar" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/429861192207982592/lxaKQ4Rp.jpeg">
            </div>
        <?php else: ?>
            <div class="large-2 large-offset-7 columns">
                <a class="right text-pad-top" href="login.php">Log in/Sign up</a>
            </div>

            <div class="large-1 columns">
                <img class="avatar" src="http://placehold.it/50x50">
            </div>
        <?php endif; ?>

The problem is, when I upload the code to my server and run it, both HTML blocks display, regardless of the PHP statements.

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There aren't any obvious errors and according to my research into the topic, this should work. Also, I tried the way without the endif; statement as well by using brackets, and that didn't work either. At this point I'm somewhat lost as to why this is happening and any help or insight would be appreciated.

Edit: Something of note, the PHP is embedded into a HTML document with a .html extension. I was under the impression that you could just inline php into a html document without issue, but I have a feeling that this might be the cause of the issue.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1373

Answers (1)

Two-Bit Alchemist
Two-Bit Alchemist

Reputation: 18467

Your file is not getting parsed as PHP because PHP is not configured to parse .html files unless you tell it to. See this question for insight into how to do that. In the meantime, change your file extension to .php and it should start working as you expect.

Upvotes: 2

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