[wf4]

Hello Folks!
The purpose of this code is to extract info from my database and wrap the results in XML tags.
What i am trying to do is return a "1" or "0" depending on whether the "parent4_cat" = "Commercial".

This works fine:

$xml_file.="\t\t" . "<VARIANT>".htmlspecialchars($product['parent4_cat'])."</VARIANT>\n";

which would give an output of:
<VARIANT>Petrol</VARIANT>

This gives me the Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IF

$xml_file.="\t\t" . "<COMMERCIAL>".htmlspecialchars.if($product['parent4_cat'] = "Commercial"){ "0";}else{"1";};."</COMMERCIAL>\n";

which i want to output:
<COMMERCIAL>1</COMMERCIAL> (or <COMMERCIAL>0</COMMERCIAL>)

I hope this makes sense. Any help would be appreciated.

Kind regards,
Will.

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Hi Will,

I think that's because the if gets read when the program is expecting the string that htmlspecialchars tries to evaluate.

Not sure how exactly you want your output, but try this:

if($product['parent4_cat'] == "Commercial")  { $bit = "0"; } else { $bit="1"; }

$xml_file.="\t\t" . htmlspecialchars("<COMMERCIAL>" .  $bit . "</COMMERCIAL>") . "\n";

[Metallica]

Hi Will,

I think that's because the if gets read when the program is expecting the string that htmlspecialchars tries to evaluate.

Not sure how exactly you want your output, but try this:

if($product['parent4_cat'] == "Commercial")  { $bit = "0"; } else { $bit="1"; }

$xml_file.="\t\t" . htmlspecialchars("<COMMERCIAL>" .  $bit . "</COMMERCIAL>") . "\n";

[wf4]

Hi Metallica...
Your fix stopped the parse error! I had to tweek it further as the XML tags were displayed as text, not tags....

This fixed it...

if($product['parent4_cat'] == "Commercial")  { $bit = "0"; } else { $bit="1"; }

$xml_file.="\t\t" . "<COMMERCIAL>" . htmlspecialchars( $bit  ) . "</COMMERCIAL>\n";

THANK YOU!!!

Would it be possible to join your administration team? I'd love to help out....

[Metallica]

Glad I could help.

If you make yourself useful on the site, you'll inevitably get noticed sooner or later.

[wf4]

Great Stuff...

I'm looking at your javascript problem now....

What you planning on using it for?

[Metallica]

Long story, but in short I want to incorporate it into a php form where people can put checkmarks for each department that needs to be informed about changes in our program.

If I use only value=1 I can count afterwards how many departments need to be informed, but not which ones.
If I can use the "doubled" values I can break down the number in the database and see which ones exactly.