Leading In and Out of ASP

Is it possible to move in and out of ASP in an If statement like in PHP?

For instance in PHP you can do this:

<?
   if($n = $x) {
?>
<p>Content content content</p>
<?
   }
?>

PHP:

Is this possible in ASP? I am getting an error when I do it this way in ASP.

If not, what is a suitable way to print out HTML if a certain condition is met?

Thanks!

 

yes you can do this

your code would look like this:

<% 
If (n = x) Then
%>
   <p>Content content content</p>
<%
End If
%>

Code (markup):

 

Hey Alex,

When I do this, I get an error page, and it states that it was expecting the "End" even when it is there, just like you have.

 

Can you post your code, so I can take a look and see if i can see a problem.

 

Here is what I ended up doing. (The <!--#embed --> tags pull content into the template) I was trying to avoid having any HTML inside of the ASP by using what we are talking about.

<%
		dim question_1
		dim question_2
		question_1=Request.Form("question_1")
		question_2=Request.Form("question_2")
		
		If question_1="" Then
		Response.Write("<form method='post' action='?page=<!--#embed page[0] -->_<!--#embed page[1] -->_<!--#embed page[2] -->' name='activity'>")
		Response.Write("<p class='bold'><!--#embed args=form,page[0]/page[1].html,page[2]_weigh_direction,weigh_direction --></p>")
		Response.Write("<p><!--#embed args=form,page[0]/page[1].html,page[2]_weigh_questions,question_1 --><br />")
		Response.Write("<textarea name='question_1' cols='50' rows='6'></textarea></p>")
		Response.Write("<p><!--#embed args=form,page[0]/page[1].html,page[2]_weigh_questions,question_2 --><br />")
		Response.Write("<textarea name='question_2' cols='50' rows='6'></textarea></p>")
		Response.Write("<p><input type='submit' value='Submit' /></p>")
		Response.Write("</form>")
		Else
		Response.Write("<p><!--#embed args=form,page[0]/page[1].html,page[2]_weigh_questions,question_1 --></p>")
		Response.Write("You said, """ & question_1 & """<br />")
		Response.Write("<p><!--#embed args=form,page[0]/page[1].html,page[2]_weigh_answers,answer_1 --></p>")
		Response.Write("<p><!--#embed args=form,page[0]/page[1].html,page[2]_weigh_questions,question_2 --></p>")
		Response.Write("You said, """ & question_2 & """<br />")
		Response.Write("<p><!--#embed args=form,page[0]/page[1].html,page[2]_weigh_answers,answer_2 --></p>")
		End If
	%>

PHP:

 

I've never seen it done like that before.

Does that actually work - I'd be really interested to know.

 

Well it's being run through an assembler script, so yeah it does work. Although I'm not too sure exactly how it works, I wasn't the one who wrote the assembler.