Quick Else Statment Help

[Ethics]

<?PHP
								
$email = $_GET['email'];
								
if ($email != 'Email'){
echo ("<input name=\"email\" type=\"text\" value=\"{$email}\" alt=\"Email\" class=\"text_boxes\" />");
} else {
echo ("<input name=\"email\" type=\"text\" value=\"Email\" alt=\"Email\" class=\"text_boxes\" onfocus=\"(this.value == 'Email') ? this.value = '' :false;\" onblur=\"(this.value == '') ? this.value = 'Email' : false;\" />");
}
								
?>

I want the else statment to show up as well when the field is left blank.

I tried...

if ($email != 'Email' || !empty($email))

but that didn't work.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mario

[samanime]

You should have left the ! off of the empty.

if($email != 'Email' || !empty($email))

However, just for the sake of good practice, you should probably do it like this:

if($email == 'Email') {
echo ("<input name=\"email\" type=\"text\" value=\"Email\" alt=\"Email\" class=\"text_boxes\" onfocus=\"(this.value == 'Email') ? this.value = '' :false;\" onblur=\"(this.value == '') ? this.value = 'Email' : false;\" />");
} else {
echo ("<input name=\"email\" type=\"text\" value=\"{$email}\" alt=\"Email\" class=\"text_boxes\" />");
}

It's a lot easier to understand.

[logic_earth]

I find this easier to understand

$format  = '<input name="email" type="text" value ="$s" class="text_boxes" %s />';
$jscript = 'onfocus="(this.value == \'Email\') ? this.value = \'\' :false;" '
         . 'onblur="(this.value == \'\') ? this.value = \'Email\' :false;"';

$email = (!isset($_GET['email']) || empty($_GET['email'])) ? 'Email' : $_GET['email'];

printf($format, $mail, $jscript); 

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