Using echo within conditional statement

Question

I'm using a conditional statement to check what language the page is on. It's fine when I just need to output HTML, but the particular line I need to translate already has an echo statement in it and I am unsure how to echo the whole statement.

The line:

<div class="timer-col"> <span id="days"></span> <span class="timer-type"><?php _e('days', 'framework'); ?></span> </div>

My code:

<?php
$mylocale = get_bloginfo('language');
if($mylocale == 'en' || $mylocale == 'en-US') {
    echo '<div class="timer-col"> <span id="days"></span> <span class="timer-type"><?php _e('days ', 'framework'); ?></span> </div>';
} else {
    echo '<div class="timer-col"> <span id="days"></span> <span class="timer-type"><?php _e('dien', 'framework'); ?></span> </div>';
}
?>

You have php tags in php tags! (Use concatenation: http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.string.php) — Rizier123, Feb 07 '15 at 04:38
You may want to put each of those echo statements on two separate lines... If this is WordPress' [`_e()`](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/_e), it works differently than a returned string that can be concatenated. (e.g. by putting the `echo '
` part on one line, and putting the `_e(...)` part on another.) — summea, Feb 07 '15 at 04:41
possible duplicate of [PHP - echo inside an echo](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14177571/php-echo-inside-an-echo) — Rizier123, Feb 07 '15 at 04:46

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '15 at 04:49

If this is WordPress and its _e() function, you may want to break up your echo lines into something like the following example:

<?php
$mylocale = get_bloginfo('language');
if($mylocale == 'en' || $mylocale == 'en-US') {
    echo '<div class="timer-col"> <span id="days"></span> <span class="timer-type">';
    _e('days ', 'framework');
    echo '</span> </div>';
} else {
    echo '<div class="timer-col"> <span id="days"></span> <span class="timer-type">';
    _e('dien', 'framework');
    echo '</span> </div>';
}
?>

This is because _e() does not return a string (that normally could be used with string concatenation). Instead, e() simply prints out translated text (without returning anything).

I've noticed that if I try to use e() inside of a string, I get unexpected placement results of where e() ends up echoing the translated text.

Hmm thanks, that makes sense. For some reason now all the timers are reading as the day timer. — vytfla, Feb 07 '15 at 04:54
It works! Thank you, I forgot to change the span id's to reflect the correct unit. — vytfla, Feb 07 '15 at 05:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 07 '15 at 04:41

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Have you tried this :

<?php
$mylocale = get_bloginfo('language');
if($mylocale == 'en' || $mylocale == 'en-US') {
    echo '<div class="timer-col"> <span id="days"></span> <span class="timer-type">'. _e('days ', 'framework').'</span> </div>';
} else {
    echo '<div class="timer-col"> <span id="days"></span> <span class="timer-type">'. _e('dien', 'framework').'</span> </div>';
}
?>

answered Feb 07 '15 at 04:41

Jun Rikson

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I did, but it made all the text inline and work funny. – vytfla Feb 07 '15 at 04:55

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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You'll want to write your echo statements something like this:

echo '<div class="timer-col"> <span id="days"></span> <span class="timer-type">' . _e("days", "framework") . '</span> </div>';

With single quotes around the HTML echoed parts, double quotes inside the single quotes, and PHP concatenated with '.'

Using echo within conditional statement

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