Switch statement in PHP injected HTML

Question

  
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I want to do something like that, in other

Answer 1

I had a similar issue when using a switch or a foreach statement with the new style short tags running on php 5.6.

in my case: changing

<?=

  switch ($number_of_columns) {
    case "1":
        echo '<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-12" >';
        break;
    case "2":
        echo '<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-6" >';
        break;
    case "4":
        echo '<div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3" >';
        break;
    default:
        echo '<div class="col-sm-6 col-md-4" >';
    }
?>

to

 <?php 
      switch ($number_of_columns) {
        case "1":
            echo '<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-12" >';
            break;
        case "2":
            echo '<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-6" >';
            break;
        case "4":
            echo '<div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3" >';
            break;
        default:
            echo '<div class="col-sm-6 col-md-4" >';
        }
    ?>

resulted in no syntax error i.e. syntax error, unexpected 'switch' (T_SWITCH)

Answer 2

You have

?>\n\n<?

after your switch which becomes

switch($var):
echo "\n\t";
case 1:

Think of your script as PHP with HTML in it, rather than embellished HTML. The PHP binary gets the file first.

You might like to use something like HEREDOC to echo out unescaped HTML.

Answer 3

I use this "friendly formatting". Tested and working:

<? switch($var) : case 1 : ?>

  <p>One</p>

<? break; case 2 : ?>

  <p>Two</p>

<? break; case 3 : ?>

  <p>Three</p>

<? break; default : ?>

  <p>Default Value</p>

<? endswitch; ?>

Answer 4

I read in the php doc that your example should not work.

Any output (including whitespace) between a switch statement and the first case will result in a syntax error. For example, this is invalid

Try this instead:

<div>
<?php switch($variable): 
case 1: ?>
    <div>
    Newspage
    </div>
<?php break; ?>
<?php case 2: ?>
    </div>
    Forum
    <div>
<?php break; ?>
<?php endswitch; ?>
</div>

http://php.net/control-structures.alternative-syntax