How do you change the characters {{ }} into the equivalent echo function on a .php page, pretty much exactly like Laravel's blade.php pages (if it's possible at all)?
I have looked around and the only question that's similar that I seem to find is "How to use Laravel's blade without Laravel" which is not what I want.
Edit
I'm posting this new data because of apokryfos's answer.
This is the function I'm running:
function View($view)
{
$src = __DIR__.'/../../views/'.$view.'.view.php';
$destination= __DIR__.'/../../views/'.$view.'.view.php';
file_put_contents(
$destination,
str_replace(["{{","}}" ],[ "<?=", "?>" ], file_get_contents($src))
);
echo file_get_contents($destination);
}
From a controller, I use this code to call that function View('welcome');. It works by retrieving the page and that but the only problem is that it does not post the variable on the page, whereas accessing the page directly in the URL works.
This is the code on my page:
<?php
$item = 11;
?>
a php variable is {{ $item }}
It posts a php variable is and then nothing on the page, not sure why.
The simple thing to do is:
$src = "sourcefile.php";
$destination= "compiledsourcefile.php";
file_put_contents(
$destination,
str_replace(["{{","}}" ],[ "<?=", "?>" ], file_get_contents($src))
);
include $destination;
To echo this directly do:
$src = "sourcefile.php";
$text = str_replace(["{{","}}" ],[ "<?=", "?>" ], file_get_contents($src))
eval("?>".$text); //Things get a bit ugly here
echo $text;
The reason for "?>" is because eval starts in "PHP mode" by default but a properly written PHP file will explicitly set the areas where it needs to enter PHP mode and starts in HTML mode by default.
Note: Most people will say that using eval is bad, and while I do agree that using eval unchecked is indeed bad, using it on code which was read from a PHP file you've written is exactly the same as doing include on that file which is not as bad.
You can use this:
<?= $var ?>
It is the same as:
<?php echo $var ?>
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Still learning php as I go so this might just be something I haven't gotten to yet but it's the next roadblock in building my personal site. I have a basic understanding of includes such as linking:
<a href="art.php?id=image id&name=This is my title&menu=side-menu-portfolio">
to pull my includes but I've come to a small problem in that my generic art-gallery page needs to switch between a 'portfolio' header and an 'artwork' header. So I figured I could either build "art-gallery.php" AND "port-gallery.php" and go back and relink everything or just make it so that when you call the link like the above code I just specify which header goes with it. Unfortunately this would also require going back and changing every link. But I noticed that I did state:
...&menu=side-menu-portfolio...
and the pages are already calling side-menu-artwork or side-menu-portfolio so if I could just call in menu and cast aside the 'side-menu-" portion then it would just use artwork or portfolio and call the right header. Unfortunately this is where my limited knowledge of php and syntax come in. I have tried to produce the following code based on my php and js understanding:
<?php include("headlines/headline-" . $_GET[menu - "side-menu-" ] . ".php"); ?>
but I don't know if my syntax is just wrong or if what I'm trying to do is impossible to begin with. Note that when I try this I get
Function Include error of "Warning: include(headlines/headline-.php)"
so it looks like everything else is reading correctly, I just don't know if or how I can extract the word I want from the rest of the menu name.
Should be, Assumed your included file name is headline-side-menu-portfolio.php
<?php
$filename = str_replace("side-menu-", "", $_GET['menu']); // headline-portfolio
include("headlines/headline-" . $filename . ".php"); // headline-portfolio.php
?>
Something like this :
<?php include("headlines/headline-" . $_GET["menu"].".php"); ?>
<!--gives include("headlines/headline-side-menu-portfolio.php")-->
where
$_GET["menu"] = 'side-menu-portfolio'
Try this:
<?php include("headlines/headline-" . $_GET['menu'] . ".php"); ?>
Your code is wrong.
Instead of
<?php include("headlines/headline-" . $_GET[menu - "side-menu-" ] . ".php"); ?>
try
<?php include("headlines/headline-" . $_GET['menu'] . ".php"); ?>
You should check if the file exists before you try including it.
if (file_exists($filesrc)) { ... }
Better yet don't let the user change the menu through a $_GET variable. Instead link to a specific page or pass a variable then decide what menu to get. Like
switch ($_GET['menu']) {
case 'side-menu':
include("headlines/headline-side-menu.php");
break;
}
Just use
$_GET['menu']
, the "side-menu-" part is already in the content of your variable passed as param.
You propably want to do an if .... else so to include one header or another based on the $_GET variable menu.
So something like this will do this:
if($_GET['menu'] == 'side-menu-portfolio') {
include 'headliens/side-menu-portfolio.php';
} elseif($_GET['menu'] == 'side-menu-other') {
include 'headliens/side-menu-other.php';
}
okay....your are almost there....just quotes missing from include syntax...it should be
include("headlines/headline-.php"); /* notice the quotes*/
so it should be
<?php include("headlines/headline-" .$_GET['menu'].".php"); ?>
where $_GET['menu'] should be in the url, like:
art.php?id=image id&name=This-is-my-title&menu=side-menu-portfolio
so what's happening her ??
Upon execution of the line :
<?php include("headlines/headline-" .$_GET['menu'].".php"); ?>
$_GET is fetched from the url and replaced in the header tag, so now the header tag becomes :
<?php include("headlines/headline-"."side-menu-portfolio".".php"); ?> => <?php include("headlines/headline-side-menu-portfolio.php"); ?>
Also. may i suggest that for :
<a href="art.php?id=image id&name=This is my title&menu=side-menu-portfolio">
don't use space in the url, either replace it by - or _
Currently developing a "simple" template class, the problem is how would I execute PHP code within a string without using eval?
A following example is how my template class works:
$user = 'Dave';
ob_start();
include 'index.tpl';
$content = ob_get_clean(); // String
$pattern = sprintf('/%s\s*(.+?)\s*%s/s', '{{', '}}'); // replace with php tags
$new_content = preg_replace($pattern, '<?php echo $1; ?>', $content);
echo $new_content;
index.tpl
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
Hello {{ $user }}!
</body>
</html>
I get the following result:
Hello !
I don't want to use eval because how slow and bad it is to use, is there any other way of doing this? laravel blade engine does not use eval so there must be.
Thanks,
Joel.
You don't need to execute PHP Code. You replace your {{ $user }} with PHP code, which doesn't get executed anymore. So your HTML will look like this after the replace:
<?php echo "Dave" ?>
Your Browser thinks <?...> is an HTML-tag and thus doesn't display the correct name.
Solution:
Just replace {{ $user }} with Dave, why do you want to add more PHP Code?
I suggest to you when you assign a value to a variable, you should put it as a global variable like this;
$GLOBALS['My_Vars']['VarName'] = $Value;
when you retrevie the name of the variable from your code which is in your example $user, you change {{ $user }} to the value within $GLOBALS['My_Vars']['user']
in this case you don't need to use evel
I wrote a php page which has two php tags and one script tag inside it .
<?php
$value = $_GET['hash'];
?>
<script>
function execute(){
<?php
$readfile = file($value);
for ($k=0;$k<=count($readfile)-1;$k++){
$cmd = $readfile[$k];
echo $cmd;}
?>
}
</script>
I want to use $value inside another php tag ( like above it has the file I want to open ), but I am not able to do it.Is the scope of variable limited to one php tag ? if yes how can I solve this problem Please help
Your code works perfectly. The variables in one PHP tag is accessible from all other tags, unless you define them inside a PHP function.
The reason you are not seeing the echo on the screen is because the echo prints to the Javascript function.
If you view the source of the generated page, the file contents will be there.
Try this:
function execute(){
<?php
$readfile = file($value);
for ($k=0;$k<=count($readfile)-1;$k++){
$cmd = $readfile[$k];
?>
alert( <?php echo $cmd; ?> );
<?php
}
?>
}
execute();
if $value is a get then you don't need to access it as a file, it should just be a short string.
just above line 7 (the one with $readfile = file...
type:
echo "alert(The hash value is: ".$value.")";
This will make an alert display (as it is in a script tag)
p.s you should have in your opening tag
I haven't found anytihng in Google or the PHP manual, believe it or not. I would've thought there would be a string operation for something like this, maybe there is and I'm just uber blind today...
I have a php page, and when the button gets clicked, I would like to change a string of text on that page with something else.
So I was wondering if I could set the id="" attrib of the <p> to id="something" and then in my php code do something like this:
<?php
$something = "this will replace existing text in the something paragraph...";
?>
Can somebody please point me in the right direction? As the above did not work.
Thank you :)
UPDATE
I was able to get it working using the following sample:
Place this code above the <html> tag:
<?php
$existing = "default message here";
$something = "message displayed if form filled out.";
$ne = $_REQUEST["name"];
if ($ne == null) {
$output = $existing;
} else {
$output = $something;
}
?>
And place the following where ever your message is to be displayed:
<?php echo $output ?>
As far as I can get from your very fuzzy question, usually you don't need string manipulation if you have source data - you just substitute one data with another, this way:
<?php
$existing = "existing text";
$something = "this will replace existing text in the something paragraph...";
if (empty($_GET['button'])) {
$output = $existing;
} else {
$output = $something;
}
?>
<html>
<and stuff>
<p><?php echo $output ?></p>
</html>
but why not to ask a question bringing a real example of what you need? instead of foggy explanations in terms you aren't good with?
If you want to change the content of the paragraph without reloading the page you will need to use JavaScript. Give the paragraph an id.<p id='something'>Some text here</p> and then use innerHTML to replace it's contents. document.getElementById('something').innerHTML='Some new text'.
If you are reloading the page then you can use PHP. One way would be to put a marker in the HTML and then use str_replace() to insert the new text. eg <p><!-- marker --></p> in the HTML and $html_string = str_replace('<!-- marker -->', 'New Text', $html_string) assuming $html_string contains the HTML to output.
If you are looking for string manipulation and conversion you can simply use the str_replace function in php.
Please check this: str_replace()
If you're using a form (which I'm assuming you do) just check if the variable is set (check the $_POST array) and use a conditional statement. If the condition is false then display the default text, otherwise display something else.
I have some HTML code portions that repeat a lot through pages. I put this html code inside a function so that it is easy to maintain. It works perfectly. I, however feel this may not be very good practice.
function drawTable($item){
?>
HTML CODE HERE
<?php
}
I also run into the problem that when I want to return data using json the following won't work as it will be NULL:
$response['table'] = drawTable($item);
return json_encode($response);
What's the correct way to handle HTML code that repeats a lot??
Thanks
You may want to look into using templates instead of using ugly heredoc's or HTML-embedded-within-PHP-functions, which are just plain unmaintainable and are not IDE-friendly.
What is the best way to include a php file as a template?
If you have a repeating segment, simply load the template multiple times using a loop.
Although templates help with D.R.Y., the primary focus is to separate presentation from logic. Embedding HTML in PHP functions doesn't do that. Not to mention you don't have to escape any sort of quotes or break the indentation/formatting.
Example syntax when using templates:
$data = array('title' => 'My Page', 'text' => 'My Paragraph');
$Template = new Template();
$Template->render('/path/to/file.php', $data);
Your template page could be something like this:
<h1><?php echo $title; ?></h1>
<p><?php echo $text; ?></p>
function drawTable( $item ) { return '<p>something</p>'; }
function yourOtherFunction() {
$response['table'] = drawTable($item);
return json_encode($response);
}
Use this function definition
function drawTable($item){
return 'HTML CODE HERE';
}
Called with
print drawTable($item);
Which will also work for your json return value.