Macro in PHP ?

[Pjotr Wedersteers]

Hello,

I am curious if there is a solution for the following in PHP4:
I often echo something to my browser during tests. I often forget to add a
<BR> to the end of the echo command.
Is it possible to use something like a mcro in C++ to have a command I can
use like echo but which automatically adds the <br> ?
Or is there a command that does that for me ?
Alternatively I could write a function of course, but then brackets come in
to play as well.

TIA
Pjotr

[Colin McKinnon]

Re: Macro in PHP ?

Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> I am curious if there is a solution for the following in PHP4:
> I often echo something to my browser during tests. I often forget to add a
> <BR> to the end of the echo command.
> Is it possible to use something like a mcro in C++ to have a command I can
> use like echo but which automatically adds the <br> ?
> Or is there a command that does that for me ?
> Alternatively I could write a function of course, but then brackets come
> in to play as well.[/color]

There are several ways. Easiest would be to use nl2br()

HTH

C.

[Pjotr Wedersteers]

Re: Macro in PHP ?

Colin McKinnon wrote:[color=blue]
> Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am curious if there is a solution for the following in PHP4:
>> I often echo something to my browser during tests. I often forget to
>> add a <BR> to the end of the echo command.
>> Is it possible to use something like a mcro in C++ to have a command
>> I can use like echo but which automatically adds the <br> ?
>> Or is there a command that does that for me ?
>> Alternatively I could write a function of course, but then brackets
>> come in to play as well.[/color]
>
> There are several ways. Easiest would be to use nl2br()
>
> HTH
>
> C.[/color]

Thanks. But this is as "cumbersome " as writing a simple function echobr ();
I decided to try the following -a constant- for a while. Maybe someone likes
it or has better ideas.
Define ("br","<br>" );
echo "Mystring or whatever".br;
Another advantage is I can easily change all breaks to newlines and vice
versa when I am working in my PHP ide, which doesn't display breaks
properly.
Pjotr

[Justin Koivisto]

Re: Macro in PHP ?

Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:
[color=blue]
> Colin McKinnon wrote:
>[color=green]
>>Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I am curious if there is a solution for the following in PHP4:
>>>I often echo something to my browser during tests. I often forget to
>>>add a <BR> to the end of the echo command.
>>>Is it possible to use something like a mcro in C++ to have a command
>>>I can use like echo but which automatically adds the <br> ?
>>>Or is there a command that does that for me ?
>>>Alternativel y I could write a function of course, but then brackets
>>>come in to play as well.[/color]
>>
>>There are several ways. Easiest would be to use nl2br()
>>
>>HTH
>>
>>C.[/color]
>
>
> Thanks. But this is as "cumbersome " as writing a simple function echobr ();
> I decided to try the following -a constant- for a while. Maybe someone likes
> it or has better ideas.
> Define ("br","<br>" );
> echo "Mystring or whatever".br;
> Another advantage is I can easily change all breaks to newlines and vice
> versa when I am working in my PHP ide, which doesn't display breaks
> properly.[/color]

....but then you still have to *remember* to put it in... ;)

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[Ian.H]

Re: Macro in PHP ?

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 20:22:32 +0200, Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:
[color=blue]
> Thanks. But this is as "cumbersome " as writing a simple function echobr ();
> I decided to try the following -a constant- for a while. Maybe someone likes
> it or has better ideas.
> Define ("br","<br>" );
> echo "Mystring or whatever".br;
> Another advantage is I can easily change all breaks to newlines and vice
> versa when I am working in my PHP ide, which doesn't display breaks
> properly.
> Pjotr[/color]


Yikes!

To me:


echo 'my string<br />'


is a lot more simple than having to use concatenation and a constant.. and
probably uses less resources (no define) although this would obviously be
too small to physically notice =)

Using .CONST would be the m$ approach IMO.. "screw standards, I gotz me an
idea!"



Regards,

Ian

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[Pjotr Wedersteers]

Re: Macro in PHP ?

Ian.H wrote:[color=blue]
> On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 20:22:32 +0200, Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Thanks. But this is as "cumbersome " as writing a simple function
>> echobr (); I decided to try the following -a constant- for a while.
>> Maybe someone likes it or has better ideas.
>> Define ("br","<br>" );
>> echo "Mystring or whatever".br;
>> Another advantage is I can easily change all breaks to newlines and
>> vice versa when I am working in my PHP ide, which doesn't display
>> breaks properly.
>> Pjotr[/color]
>
>
> Yikes!
>
> To me:
>
>
> echo 'my string<br />'
>
>
> is a lot more simple than having to use concatenation and a
> constant.. and probably uses less resources (no define) although this
> would obviously be too small to physically notice =)
>
> Using .CONST would be the m$ approach IMO.. "screw standards, I gotz
> me an idea!"
>
>[/color]
Eeek, you say I'm infected with m$ virus.. What's my penance for this sin ?
But seriously, the problem is mostly when I don't echo strings but numerals,
without those nasty quotes. I am a lazy typist.
And echo $a.br; types faster than echo $a."<br />";

[Ian.H]

Re: Macro in PHP ?

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 23:36:24 +0200, Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:
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>> Using .CONST would be the m$ approach IMO.. "screw standards, I gotz
>> me an idea!"
>>
>>[/color]
> Eeek, you say I'm infected with m$ virus.. What's my penance for this sin ?
> But seriously, the problem is mostly when I don't echo strings but numerals,
> without those nasty quotes. I am a lazy typist.
> And echo $a.br; types faster than echo $a."<br />";[/color]


Fair play, can see the extra work here (I'm a lazy typist too =) ).

In Zend, I can hit ctrl+enter and it'll insert a <br> for me.. apologies
if you've already said, but what editor are you using? I wrote many macros
for UEdit to add GPL / BSD headers and other small comment snippet inserts
etc to save myself time.. if your editor has this function it'd be
a trivial task I'm assuming =)

Just a thought.



Regards,

Ian

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