PHP-and-MySQL/C2/Common-Way-to-Display-HTML/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:00	Here is a tip for displaying HTML inside your php. This is specially useful when you are using ‘if’ statements or anything that uses a block and when you need to do this on a condition or you need to output a lot of HTML inside something that is working on php.
00:23	In this example, I’ve got a variable- Name and this is set to "Alex".
00:30	So, if I type- name equals Alex then it will echo out “Hi, Alex”.
00:36	If name is not equal to "Alex" - so we type else- we will echo out “You are not Alex. Please type your name”.
00:47	And we have an input field here which should have a form around it.
00:53	So, "Form action equals Index.php" Method =post and we end the form here.
01:05	We can bring this down a bit so that it looks better. So, we have some HTML codes inside this else block .
01:15	So we type ‘If else’ and we have got a block starting here and a block ending here. And what could be a lot of HTML code.
01:27	The purpose of this tutorial is to show you that you don’t need to use echo and echo out HTML code.
01:34	It’s easier and saves time when you want to code using quotation marks rather than single inverted commas.
01:41	Also it’s nicer to have a code inside the blocks ,say, this block here without having to worry about what you are typing.
01:58	So, if you are used to quotation marks this forward slash will escape the character.
02:08	So, it will be displayed but will be ignored as the end of the echo and the beginning of this echo here.
02:20	For example: Let’s just refresh.
02:25	Since name equals "Alex", it is greeting me as we saw earlier.
02:31	The echo is okay for a small amount of text but for a large amount with a form etc, we don’t want the echo.
02:44	As it stands at present, it won't run. We will receive an error. We haven't provided a method of output for this text.
02:59	That’s on line 12. So, if you go to line 12, you will see that it's here. We can rectify the problem in this way.
03:09	We have our php opening tag here. And I am going to end the tag down here.
03:16	So, we are ending the tag after the block starts. Now I will start a new tag just before the flower brackets or curly bracket here.
03:31	So now we have a chunk of php code here and a chunk here. And the rest here is not interpreted as php. Since it is HTML it will be displaced as HTML code.
03:49	So, what I am going to do first is, change all these to quotation marks.
03:56	If you implement this method from the beginning , you could code easily and it would work a lot better.
04:08	So, once again as is visible on the screen we have a block here and the block here. It may appear as though the php would end here.
04:22	But we have not ended a block inside here, in this area but we are going down here. We aren’t echoing out but displaying this.
04:37	This applies specifically to the else block. We end the block in the blue highlighted line here and here.
04:47	So again, we will first get “Hi, Alex”. Now if we change the name to let’s say "Kyle", refresh.
05:01	You will see that the HTML has been displayed properly. But it hasn’t been echoed out using php.
05:09	This is a good method to use when you want to display HTML properly and re-read easily. Hope this tutorial has been helpful .Thank you for watching.

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