I am currently working on a website that uses a login system I made.
I have a div that holds a bar that goes on the top of the website. This bar is supposed to change depending if you're a guest, logged in, or a admin. (Therefor there are three separate divs - guestmode, membermode and adminmode)
I have tried to make php print the html when wanted, and it worked. The only problem is that it's messy and not at all easy to edit.
Is it possible for php to print html without using 'echo' or 'print', but copying from another file?
Basically I want to copy normal html syntaxed-code from a file somewhere and turn it into something that php can print, then of course print it.
Is there something out there that can do that?
Thanks in advance!
For PHP, use something like:
echo file_get_contents('path/to/my_html_snippet.my_ext'); // echo instantly
$stored = file_get_contents('path/to/my_html_snippet.my_ext'); // or save it for later in a string
Create a file at path/to/my_html_snippet.my_ext that contains the HTML you want to print.
Its seems like you need a templates.
See mustache (examples and docs - https://github.com/bobthecow/mustache.php)
Related
I'm attempting to make a template file for a CMS that I'm making where the template file can contain variables like {username} as regular text that get replaced when the page gets included on the index.php page.
Example:
Index Page:
<?php include('templates/123/index.php'); ?>
templates/123/index.php page
<?php include('header.php'); ?>
Welcome {username}
<?php include('footer.php'); ?>
I've tried several methods; however, always run into problems because the page I'm trying to change the content on includes PHP code. Every method I try either 1) messes up because the opening and closing of PHP tags within the document OR 2) just echoes out the PHP code in the document. Is there any way that I can still achieve this? Maybe even with a class of some kind? I just want to be able to achieve this safely.
I will also be using this to where custom variables like {content1} get replaces with a php code that will be ioncubed that retrieves the data from database for content located in column1, same with {column2} {column3} and {column4}. I'm just trying to make the creation of templates extremely easy. (so I'd like to make the code work for that as well)
My preferred method of doing stuff like this involves starting my code with:
ob_start(function($c) {
$replacements = array(
"username"=>"Kolink",
"rank"=>"Awesome"
);
return preg_replace_callback("/{(\w+)}/",function($m) use ($replacements) {
return isset($replacements[$m[1]]) ? $replacements[$m[1]] : $m[0];
},$c);
});
Two steps I suggest
Load the result of your file "templates/123/index.php" into a variable. see this link for how to do it assign output of execution of PHP script to a variable?
use strtr() function to replace your placeholder i.e {username} with actual values
I think this will server your needs.
I have 2 pages of html: a.html & b.html.
a.html contains text "hello" and a link to b.html.
When I click the link to b.html, I want the "hello" text to also come on specific place in the b.html page.
How can i do this? Kindly let me know.
To bring it along, you'll need to pass it somehow. It could be something you keep in an input element on the screen, then when you submit it (as a form) it will be available as a $_REQUEST element. You could also do this by putting your desired welcome message in a hidden element and submitting it in the same manner.
Alternatively, you could put the value you want in a URL string manually. For example, the link in a.html to go to b.html could be called by:
<a href="b.html?welcome=welcome%20to%20the%20show">
Doing things on the URL string is more PHP than html, and if your server's not setup correctly you may not be able to get values from the URL string in an HTML document. So, in that case it's probably easier just to make it a .php file. Again, not that it can't be done, but it might not be setup to work that way by default.
.html pages are static, so you'd have to copy the desired text manually into the second page.
If you want to do it via PHP, then the simplest way is to put the common text into a file, like:
my_html.html:
<p>This is the common text which should be included in both pages</p>
and
a.php:
... lots of stuff ...
<?php include('my_html.html'); ?>
... more stuff ...
and
b.php:
... other stuff ...
<?php include('my_html.html'); ?>
... more other stuff ...
It sounds like you want to "include" some common text between multiple pages. If you're limited to client-side functionality, it's possible to do this by writing some Javascript to populate an HTML element with a string via DOM, and then include that javascript on both pages. Both HTML pages would have to define the target element.
If you have server-side technology flexibility, I would suggest you look at PHP. Implement both pages as .php pages, and use include() to include a common file (e.g. common.php) in both pages.
You could use php sessions and store the text there so e.g.
a.html
<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['session_name']="Hello";
echo $_SESSION['session_name'];
?>
b.html
<?php
session_start();
echo $session['session_name'];
?>
A session is more or less a cookie and what you are doing here is storing the string "Hello" in a cookie name "session_name". You can then display the cookies content by using the php echo command :)
Apologize me if the question is unclear.
I'm a total newbie php user and I have this script that I want to edit.
The script have uses .tpl for the theme.
In the memberprofile.tpl there is the first name element $profilearray[0].firstname I want to add the result of this element also in another .tpl file called docs.tpl
I tried copying and pasting `$profilearray[0].firstname in docs.tpl but it did not work.
I noticed that docs.tpl uses its own $docsarray[0].xxx
So guys any idea how to do this? because there are some information in the member profile that I would like to add them inside the docs page.
I tried playing with mysql but I don't know how to use the same element firstname for both memberprofile and docs tables
I'm sure there is an easy way to do it.
Here's the full code from memberprofile.tpland I want to show some of these info in that theme docs.tpl
<p class="gray">
{$lang112}: <b>{$profilearray[0].firstname} {$profilearray[0].lastname}</b><br>
{$lang130}: <b>{$profilearray[0].birthday}</b><br>
{$lang134}: <b>{if $profilearray[0].gender eq "1"}Male{elseif $profilearray[0].gender eq "0"}Female{/if}</b><br>
{$lang140}: <b>{$profilearray[0].city}</b> <br>
{$lang139}: <b>{$profilearray[0].country}</b> <br>
{$lang113}: <b>{insert name=get_stripped_phrase value=a assign=pdesc details=$profilearray[0].description}{$pdesc}</b> <br>
{$lang259}: <b>{$profilearray[0].url|stripslashes|truncate:20:"...":true}</b> <br>
{$lang260}: <b>{insert name=get_time_to_days_ago value=var time=$profilearray[0].lastlogin}</b> <br>
{$lang261}: <b>{insert name=get_time_to_days_ago value=var time=$profilearray[0].addtime}</b>
</p>
Smarty has a tag you can google for called {include} that will do what you want. http://www.smarty.net/docsv2/en/language.function.include.tpl Use that tag on your docs.tpl file and you will be fine.
$profilearray
in your example is assigned to smarty template before the template is called in some fashion simmilar to this
$smarty->assign('profilearray',$somearray);
you'll need to find what is setting that in your first file then make sure that is included in your second template call
but you should certainly read the smarty documentation to understand what you are trying to do.
To step back for a moment... There are two parts to all this. The first part is the PHP code which actually takes user input, queries the database, processes the data, etc. The second part is the TPL file. As much as possible, the TPL file should only be concerned with presentation, not with data-processing, data-cross-referencing, etc.
All that database-reading and cross-referencing should happen inside a plain PHP file, not inside the TPL.
In order to add "Author information" to the "Documents List" (or whatever you call docs.tpl) page, you need to find the PHP code which pulls up the list of documents. Find the PHP code where it says something like:
$smarty->assign('docsarray',$document_list);
Now what you want to do is pass more information to the smarty template (TPL file) so that it can display it. Something like:
for($document_list as $index => $doc){
$owner = $doc['owner']; // Get the owner of the document
$profile = getProfile($owner); // Create one of the same things that go into $profilearray elsewhere
$document_list[$index]['profile'] = $profile; // Modify original array
}
$smarty->assign('docsarray',$document_list);
Then go into docs.tpl and find where it displays information about each document, and add smarty template code to read from the new per-document information you added. (Check the Smarty reference page for details.)
For example, if docs.tpl shows a table of documents, you might add a new column that shows the author's first/last name:
<tr>
<td>{$docsarray[$index].title}</td>
<td>{$docsarray[$index].created_date}</td>
<!-- Next line is new -->
<td>{$docsarray[$index].profile.firstname} {$docsarray[$index].profile.lastname}</td>
</tr>
If you want something that looks exactly like the "profile box", you can do that too. In fact, using {include} you can create profilebox.tpl and use it in both places to reduce redundant code.
I basically have a div on my site that always has the same stuff. However, this div is not present on all pages which is why I won't use the dynamic web template. I was wondering if it was possible for PHP to get the code from a document on the server and put in into the div?
Ex:
<div id="section...
then my text file contains
<p>hello</p>
Basically I want PHP to put it into the div when the user sees it.
If theres a smarter way of acheiving this I'd be open to it as well.
Thanks
Simply include() the file. The interpreter will drop out of PHP mode back into HTML mode, outputting anything it encounters.
Did you try this in the first place?
<div id="section"><?php include ('path-to-your-file') ?></div>
Just have a file with some echo statements that generate your div and then include it only when required.
How to control whether to include it or not depends on how your website is built.
For instance if you have DB entries for your pages add a column called includediv (you can probably come out with a better name...) and if that is true you include the file otherwise not.
I'd like to use PHP in a vBulletin style/skin, yet when I do so, the PHP doesn't work.
By 'not work', I mean it's treated just as plain text. And if you look in the code you can see the PHP code (hidden, by Firefox - which is the behaviour you get if you put PHP code on a plain html page)
http://vapurl.com/h0kp3fqr8c - view source, and you'll see what I mean.
You can't stick random PHP into the vBulletin templating system; it gives you some simple branching options in the form of
<if condition="$somevariable === $someothervariable">
some text or HTML to be displayed
</else>
some other text or HTML to be displayed
</if>
A good explanation of how the template conditional system works can be found in the vBulletin manual here.
Your short url appears to have expired, but if the code you wish to include is more complicated than that, you need to start looking into vBulletin hooks and plugins.
Assuming you're entering the correct PHP syntax, this may be occurring if you're trying to use any of the standard output methods.
If you are trying to use echo, print or any other similar output function, try wrapping all of your included PHP within ob functions.
Example:
ob_start();
//PHP code I want to run goes here
echo "Test this works?";
ob_end_clean();
hooks /plugins are the best way of manipulating data before displaying it in the template. You can add as much php as you want in a plugin and then modify the template to output the results.