PHP: How to hide/display chunks of HTML

Question

I\'m hoping someone can help with this very newbie question. I\'ve just come from an ASP.Net environment where it was easy to hide or show chunks of HTML. For example: Different

Answer 1

You don't need to put the HTML into an echo statement. Think of the HTML as implicitly being echoed. So, for conditionally showing a chunk of HTML, you'd be looking for a construct like this:

    

        
Some content
    

So the HTML string literal that exists outside of the PHP tags is just implicitly delivered to the page, but you can wrap logic around it to drive it. In the above, the div and its contents are all within the scope of the if statement, and so that chunk of HTML (even though it's outside of the PHP tags) is only delivered if the condition in the PHP code is true.