<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >if..endif syntax</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Migrating from PHP/FI 2.0 to PHP 3.0" HREF="migration.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Start/end tags" HREF="migration-startendtags.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="while syntax" HREF="migration-while.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="migration-startendtags.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Appendix A. Migrating from PHP/FI 2.0 to PHP 3.0</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="migration-while.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="migration-if-endif" >if..endif syntax</A ></H1 ><P > The `alternative' way to write if/elseif/else statements, using if(); elseif(); else; endif; cannot be efficiently implemented without adding a large amount of complexity to the 3.0 parser. Because of this, the syntax has been changed: <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><P ><B >Example A-5. Migration: old if..endif syntax</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > 1 2 if ($foo); 3 echo "yep\n"; 4 elseif ($bar); 5 echo "almost\n"; 6 else; 7 echo "nope\n"; 8 endif; 9 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><P ><B >Example A-6. Migration: new if..endif syntax</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > 1 2 if ($foo): 3 echo "yep\n"; 4 elseif ($bar): 5 echo "almost\n"; 6 else: 7 echo "nope\n"; 8 endif; 9 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > Notice that the semicolons have been replaced by colons in all statements but the one terminating the expression (endif).</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="migration-startendtags.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="migration-while.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Start/end tags</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="migration.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >while syntax</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >