Calling function from within variable?

Hey.

I've got a variable which changes depending on the conditions. That's normal, ofc.

This variable prints some HTML. Within this HTML is a select-box, with the options (hopefully) pulled from a function - but how do I do that?

Currently, I have as follows:

$date_paid = "<td class='a_right'>
			<form>
			<select class='formlook' name='paid_day'>
                        option_values(31);
			</select>
			<select class='formlook' name='paid_month'>
			option_months();
			</select>
			<input class='formlook' type='text' name='paid_year' size='4' value='' />
			</form>
		</td>";

PHP:

What I want is of course for the option_value() and the option_month() functions to be parsed - and I can't seem to get it to work.

Anyone have an idea as to how I can do this?

(Yes, I know I could echo the if-statement, but that won't work, as it has to be contained inside that $date_paid variable

 

$date_paid = "<td class='a_right'>
<form>
<select class='formlook' name='paid_day'>".option_values(31)."
</select>
<select class='formlook' name='paid_month'>".option_months()."
</select>
<input class='formlook' type='text' name='paid_year' size='4' value='' />
</form>
</td>";

 

Tried that, does not work. For some reason, I'm not sure why - that was the first thing I tried. It prints the values, all right, but for some reason it leaves the other parts out - ie. if I use your method, it prints the option_values(31) out as <option>1</option><option>2</option> etc. (which of course is what it is supposed to do) but for some reason the rest of the code (the <td><select> etc.) is not displayed. I'm not sure why...

I'll add some of the code:

if ($members[date_paid] == 00-00-0000) {
		$date_paid = "<td class='a_right'>
		<form>
			<select class='formlook' name='paid_day'>".option_values(31)."
			</select>
			<select class='formlook' name='paid_month'>".option_months()."
			</select>
			<input class='formlook' type='text' name='paid_year' size='4' value='' />
		</form>
		</td>";
	$sum_paid = "<td class='a_right'><form method='post' action='$domain/update_list.php'>
			<input class='hidden' name='uniqueID' value='$uniqueID' />
<input class='formlook' type='text' name='sum_paid' size='4' maxlength='4' value='$amount' /><input type='submit' value='Oppdater' /></form></td>";

		}
	echo "<tr>
		$name$address$mail$phone$birthdate$date_paid$sum_paid
		</tr>";

PHP:

The rest of the variables in the echo-statement is defined earlier, and is working as intended

 

There's no reason NatalicWolf's suggestion shouldn't work. Have you looked at the HTML source that was generated? Maybe your option_values() function is leaving an HTML tag or a quotation mark open.

 

I think its echoing not returning. Please post the full code.

 

You might very well be right on that one, yes.

The code for the option_values()-function is as follows:

function option_values($max)
{
$options = array('1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','10','11','12','13','14','15','16','17','18','19','20','21','22','23','24','25','26','27','28','29','30','31');
$options_limited = array_slice($options,0,$max);

foreach ($options_limited as $value) {
	echo "<option>$value</option>";
}}

PHP:

 

Score one more for NatalicWolf. Instead of echoing, concatenate the stuff in a variable and then return that variable.

$r = '';
foreach (blahblah)
   $r .= "blahblah";
return $r;

Code (markup):

 

Ah. Superb, both of you! +rep added!