php-json-heredoc.php

<?php

## Nav data, as a JSON heredoc. Much less verbose than PHP arrays!
$navs = json_decode(<<<JSON
{
  "mlb": {
    "title_link": "http://stats.boston.com/mlb/scoreboard.asp",
    "nav": [
      { "title": "Full Schedule",   "url": "http://stats.boston.com/mlb/teamreports.asp?tm=02&report=schedule" },
      { "title": "Statistics",      "url": "http://stats.boston.com/mlb/teamreports.asp?yr=2009&tm=2&btnGo=Go&report=stats" },
      { "title": "Standings",       "url": "http://stats.boston.com/mlb/standings.asp" }
    ]
  },
  "nfl": {
    "title_link": "http://stats.boston.com/fb/scoreboard.asp",
    "nav": [
      { "title": "Full Schedule",   "url": "http://stats.boston.com/fb/teamstats.asp?yr=2009&tm=17&btnGo=Go&type=schedules" },
      { "title": "Statistics",      "url": "http://stats.boston.com/fb/teamstats.asp?teamno=17&type=stats" },
      { "title": "Standings",       "url": "http://stats.boston.com/fb/totalstandings.asp" },
      { "title": "Season timeline", "url": "http://timelines.boston.com/patriots" }
    ]
  },
  "nhl": {
    "title_link": "http://stats.boston.com/nhl/scoreboard.asp",
    "nav": [
      { "title": "Full Schedule",   "url": "http://stats.boston.com/nhl/teamstats.asp?teamno=01&btnGo=Go&type=schedule" },
      { "title": "Statistics",      "url": "http://stats.boston.com/nhl/teamstats.asp?teamno=01&btnGo=Go&type=stats" },
      { "title": "Standings",       "url": "http://stats.boston.com/nhl/standings_conference.asp" },
      { "title": "Season timeline", "url": "http://timelines.boston.com/bruins#/seasons/2009" }
    ]
  },
  "nba": {
    "title_link": "http://stats.boston.com/nba/scoreboard.asp",
    "nav": [
      { "title": "Full Schedule",   "url": "http://stats.boston.com/nba/teamstats.asp?teamno=02&btnGo=Go&type=schedule" },
      { "title": "Statistics",      "url": "http://stats.boston.com/nba/teamstats.asp?teamno=02&btnGo=Go&type=totstats" },
      { "title": "Standings",       "url": "http://stats.boston.com/nba/standings_conference.asp" },
      { "title": "Season timeline", "url": "http://timelines.boston.com/celtics" }
    ]
  }
}
JSON
, true);

## Get nav data
$nav =& $navs[ $_GET['league'] ? strtolower( $_GET['league'] ) : 'all' ];

## Output.
?><div class="scorebelt">
  <div class="scorebelt-nav">
    <? if ( $nav['title_link'] ): ?>
      <h3><a href="<?= $nav['title_link'] ?>">Scoreboard</a></h3>
    <? else: ?>
      <h3>Scoreboard</h3>
    <? endif; ?>
    <ul>
      <? foreach ( $nav['nav'] as $item ): ?>
        <li><a href="<?= $item['url'] ?>"><?= $item['title'] ?></a></li>
      <? endforeach; ?>
    </ul>
  </div>
</div>