PHP: default value while a variable is not set? - php

I have a code that searches tags in .html file but I have problem executing the script it leads me to undefined index.
on my previous QUESTION I ask about searching id tags and I't leads me to used it as a reference. Enhancing the code and executing the code correctly but it shows me an error. The error searches every id tags in a .html file
CODE:
<?php
function getElementById($matches)
{
global $data;
return $matches[1].$matches[3].$matches[4].$data[$matches[3]].$matches[6];
}
$data['test'] = 'A';
$filename = 'test.html';
$html = file_exists($filename) ? file_get_contents($filename) : die('can\'t open the file');
$_HTML = preg_replace_callback('#(<([a-zA-Z]+)[^>]*id=")(.*?)("[^>]*>)([^<]*?)(</\\2>)#ism', 'getElementById', $html);
echo $_HTML;
?>
HTML:
<html>
<head>
<title>TEST</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="test"></div>
<div id="test2"></div>
</body>
</html>
OUTPUT: PRINTSCREEN

Here's how you can implement a default:
$data3 = isset($data[$matches[3]]) ? $data[$matches[3]] : 'default';
return $matches[1].$matches[3].$matches[4].$data3.$matches[6];

Disclaimer: You shouldn't be doing all this regex stuff with HTML, blah, blah...
But if you insist
function getElementById($matches)
{
global $data;
return $matches[1]
.$matches[3]
.$matches[4]
.isset($data[$matches[3]]) ? $data[$matches[3]] : 'DEFAULT_VALUE'
.$matches[6];
}
Why not use regex?
https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/156811
Using regular expressions to parse HTML: why not?
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/11/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way.html
I'm sure you can find more if you do a quick search
Some alternatives:
http://us1.php.net/dom
http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/
etc.

Regex is not really the correct way todo this. I suggeset you using XPATH or anything like that. You can also use something like this:
https://code.google.com/p/phpquery/

I don't understand what is your problem?
It's 100% normal that you got an undefined index error.
In your HTML, 2 IDs are defined: 'test' and 'test2'.
Your PHP code finds those two ID and look for an entry inside $data,
however, $data contains only an entry for 'test',
so PHP tells you that there is no entry for 'test2': Notice: Undefined index: test2
That's it :-)

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Is it possible to change original html text in php?

I am trying to make "manner friendly" website. We use different declination dependent on gender and other factors. For example:
You did = robili
It did = robilo
She did = robila
Linguisticaly this is very simplified (and unlucky) example! I would like to change html text in php file where appropriate. For example
<? php
something
?>
html text of the page and somewhere is the word "robil"
<div>we tried to robil^i|o|a^</div>
<? php something ?>
Now I would like to replace all occurences of different tokens ^characters|characters|characters^ and replace them by one of their internal values according to "gender".
It is easy in javascript on the client side, but you will see all this weird "tokenizing" before javascript replace it.
Here I do not know the elegant solution.
Or do you have better idea?
Thanks for advice.
You can add these scripts before and after the HTML:
<?php
// start output buffering
ob_start();
?>
<html>
<body>
html text of the page and somewhere is the word "robil"
<div>we tried to robil^i|o|a^, but also vital^si|sa|ste^, borko^mal|mala|malo^ </div>
</body>
</html>
<?php
$use = 1; // indicate which declination to use (0,1 or 2)
// get buffered html
$html = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
// match anything between '^' than's not a control chr or '^', min 5 and max 20 chrs.
if (preg_match_all('/\^[^[:cntrl:]\^]{3,20}\^/',$html,$matches))
{
// replace all
foreach (array_unique($matches[0]) as $match)
{
$choices = explode('|',trim($match,'^'));
$html = str_replace($match,$choices[$use],$html);
}
}
echo $html;
This returns:
html text of the page and somewhere is the word "robil" we tried to
robilo, but also vitalsa, borkomala

php, html and pdf with drupal

Having the next PHP code that produce HTML code:
(simplified function, the real one on same idea but longer with loops and so on):
<?php
function show_doc_html() {
$text_to_title = "some text from db";
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>
<?php echo $text_to_title ?>
</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
<?
}
I would like to return a PDF to the user, without changing too much of this code. we are working under drupal so we have function that can get html string and convert it to pdf, but the former function doesn't return anything but printing to stdout. Id it possible? or should i rebuild the old function to return string?
Is that what you need?
I have used it in my project. You can just write your markup and inline css in node template using view_mode = 'PDF'
The easiest way was to encapsulate my function with "ob_start()" get all text using "ob_get_contents()", then convert it to pdf.
Something like:
function show_doc_pdf() {
ob_start();
function show_doc_html() ;
$html_var = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
//use wkhtmltopdf api on $html_var to return pdf
}

How to chain in phpquery (almost everything can be a chain)

Good day everyone,
I'm very new with phpquery and this is my first post here at stackoverflow for a reason that i cant find the correct for syntax for the phpquery chaining. I know someone knows what i been looking for.
I only want to remove the a certain div inside a div.
<div id = "content">
<p>The text that i want to display</p>
<div class="node-links">Stuff i want to remove</div>
</content>
This few lines of codes works perfect
pq('div.node-links')->remove();
$text = pq('div#content');
print $text; //output: The text that i want to display
But when I tried
$text = pq('div#content')->removeClass('div.node-links'); //or
$text = pq('div#content')->remove('div.node-links');
//output: The text that i want to display (+) Stuff i want to remove
Can someone tell me why the second block of code is not working?
Thanks!
The first line of code will only work if your trying to remove the class from div.node-links, it won't remove the node.
If you are trying to remove the class you need to change it from:
$text = pq('div#content')->removeClass('div.node-links');
// to
$text = pq('div#content')->find('.node-links')->removeClass('node-links')->end();
which will output:
<div id="content">
<p>The text that i want to display</p>
<div>Stuff i want to remove</div>
</div>
As for the second line of code.. I'm not exactly sure why it is not working, it seems like your not selecting .node-links but I was able to get the desired results using these.
// $markup = file_get_contents('test.html');
// $doc = phpQuery::newDocumentHTML($markup);
$text = $doc->find('div#content')->children()->remove('.node-links')->end();
// or
$text = pq('div#content')->find('.node-links')->remove()->end();
// or
$text = pq('div#content > *')->remove('.node-links')->parent();
Hope that helps
Since remove() does not take any parameter, you can do:
$text = pq('div#content div.node-links')->remove();

How to code PHP function that displays a specific div from external file if div called by getElementById has no value?

Thank you for answering my question so quickly. I did some more digging and ultimately found a solution for grabbing data from external file and specific div and posting it into another document using PHP DOMDocument. Now I'm looking to improve the code by adding an if condition that will grab data from a different div if the one called for initially by getElementById has now data. Here is the code for what I got so far.
External html as source.
<div id="tab1_header" class="cushycms"><h2>Meeting - 12:00pm to 3:00pm</h2></div>
My PHP file calling from source looks like this.
<?php
$source = "user_data.htm";
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTMLFile($source);
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$tab1_header = $dom->getElementById('tab1_header');
?>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<div><h2><?php echo $tab1_header->nodeValue; ?></h2></div>
</body>
</html>
The following function will output a message if a div id can't be found but...
if(!tab1_header)
{
die("Element not found");
}
I would like to call for a different div if the one called for initially has no data. Meaning if <div id="tab1_header"></div> then grab <div id="alternate"><img src="filler.png" /></div>. Can someone help me modify the function above to achieve this result.
Thanks.
either split up master.php so div1\2 are in a file each or set them each to a var, them include master.php, and use the appropriate variable
master.php
$d1='<div id="description1">Some Text</div>';
$d2='<div id="description2">Some Text</div>';
description1.php
include 'master.php';
echo $d1;
You can't do this solely with PHP includes unless you put the divs into separate files. Look into PHP templating; it's probably the best solution for this. Or, since you're new to the language, try using variables:
master.php
$description1 = '<div id="description1">Some Text</div>';
$description2 = '<div id="description2">Some Text</div>';
board1.php
include 'master.php';
echo $description1;
board2.php
include 'master.php';
echo $description2;
Alternatively, you could use JavaScript, but that might get a little messy.
Short answer is: although it's possible it's probably very bad idea taking this approach.
Longer answer: the solution may turn out to be too complicated. If in your master.php file is only HTML markup, you could read content of that file with file_get_contents() function and then parse it (i.e. with DOMDocument library functions). You would have to look for a div with given id.
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTMLFile($file);
$divs = $doc->getElementsByTagName('div');
foreach ($divs as $div)
{
if( $div->getAttribute('id') == 'description1' )
{
echo $div->nodeValue."\n";
}
}
?>
If your master.php file has also some dynamic content you could do following trick:
<?php
ob_start();
include('master.php');
$sMasterPhpContent = ob_get_clean();
// same as above - parse HTML
?>
Edit:
$tab_header = $dom->getElementById('tab1_header') ? $dom->getElementById('tab1_header') : $dom->getElementById('tab2_header');

How to replace code between the specific tags and apply php eval on it

I have a variable which calls content from database, sample is below
$content = '<div><h1>content here</h1>
<img src = 'image.jpg' /><br />
[code]echo 'welcome';[/code]
<h2>some content here</h2>
<p> some large content here</p>
[code]echo 'Click Here';[/code]
Thank you.';
echo 'headers here' .$content . 'footers here';
how can i execute PHP for the content in between [code] and [/code] tags?
remaining text would written as html execpt the codes used in [code] some php code [/code] tags
If this is for a templateting type of system for your site I would suggest to go a different route.
First your above code would change so that the portion between you code would look like:
[code]{{msg}}}[/code]
Now, you can still store your stuff in the database as php code if you want, but it makes more sense to eval it before you put it into the database, but I strongly suggest otherwise and go with a find/replace system.
Now, you would want to have a function that would do the following:
function output_template( $name, $data ) {
$template_string = get_template_from_db( $name );
for( $data as $k )
{
$template_string = str_replace( $k, $data[$k], $template_string );
}
return $template_string;
}
Then you can echo out the return value of this function. If you think you need to use eval, rethink what you are doing, especially for what appears to be a templating system.

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