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Hello,
I wanted to use a heredoc, because it was easy to send out formatted text.  So, I was using this function I created to print out an HTML form and reuse it on postback.  I know that in a heredoc, simple variables can be resolved.  But I ran into a situation where I need to display a different dropdown depending on the value of this dropdown on postback (or if the $_POST doesn't exist).

The example below is what I was trying to do.  Instead, PHP displayed the if statement as text.

Does anybody have suggestions?  I could try to check the dropdown value outside this function and fill a variable with an HTML string and then insert in the heredoc.

Thanks,
Stephen

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function printForm()
	{
		global $errorMessage;
	
		echo <<< UPLOADFORM
		<p>* denotes a required field.</p>
		
		<form action="$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
		
		<table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" class="submissionstable">
		<tr>
		<td class="submissionfieldname">Name *:</td>
		<td class="submissionerrorfield"><input type="text" name="username" size="30" value="$_POST[username]" /> $errorMessage[username]</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
		<td class="submissionfieldname">&#160;</td>
		<td style="color: #ffffff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif, verdana; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"><br />
		I am submitting ...
		if isset($_POST[lyricstype])
		{
			<select name="lyricstype">
			if ($_POST[lyricstype] == "none")
			{
				<option value="none" selected="selected">neither a romanization or translation</option>
			}
			else
			{
				<option value="none">neither a romanization or translation</option>
			}
			
			if ($_POST[lyricstype] == "romanization")
			{
				<option value="romanization" selected="selected">a romanization</option>
			}
			else
			{
				<option value="romanization">a romanization</option>
			}
			
			if ($_POST[lyricstype] == "translation")
			{
				<option value="translation" selected="selected">a translation</option>
			}
			else
			{
				<option value="translation">a translation</option>
			}	
			</select>
		}
		else
		{
			<select name="lyricstype">
				<option value="none" selected="selected">neither a romanization or translation</option>
				<option value="romanization">a romanization</option>
				<option value="translation">a translation</option>
			</select>
		}
		<br />
		<br /></td>
		</tr>
		</table>
		</form>		
UPLOADFORM;
	}	// End function printForm()
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