I m using the php function file_get_contents to parse a php file. But it seems that as soon as it is reading the php tags the file_get_contents is malfunctioning.
I checked the function with a normal text file, its functioning perfectly. But even if it finds php tags in a text file, the file is being half read. How can i find a way to get the full contents.
Is the file local? Or are you trying to get a remote file? How did you check that the content is not read? Echoing it to a browser might trick you because of the < char in <?php
Use htmlspecialchars or <pre> to view the whole text. Or just look at the source of the page.
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I want to convert the content of a php file (this file is generated using some query from mysql database along with some image)to html file in order to create a pdf format. I tried converting php file to pdf but could not be succeeded. Kindly help with very short example as I am very new to the area.Thanks in advance.
you can generate a static html file from a url (to the php page) like so:
file_put_contents('static.html', file_get_contents('http://example.com/dynamic.php'));
Though writing the file to disk is probably unnecessary.
Probably your pdf function takes an html sting, in which case include and output buffering might be a suitable solution:
ob_start();
include 'dynamic.php';
$html = ob_get_clean();
create_pdf('mypdf.php', $html);
For a more specific example you would need to show your current code
So I'm making a notepad app in PHP, but I want to add the ability to share the file amongst your peers or something.
It's based on AJAX, and it saves the file automatically, and the file is named to what your IP address is after being hashed in md5.
What I want to do is maybe go to /view/837ec5754f503cfaaee0929fd48974e7, while the actual text file is located at /notes/837ec5754f503cfaaee0929fd48974e7.txt
I know I'll have to use file_get_contents(), but I don't know how to display it on a page.
I could just have it link to the .txt file, but I don't want it raw. I want it to have some style.
How would I go about doing this? Where can I start?
First you would need a way to store a variable in the URL (the file name). This can be easiest done using the querystring.
So the link to a file for your user to see would be '/view/?file=MYFILENAME'
This would then be interpreted by your php (this could also be wrapped in AJAXy goodness) into a path to retrieve the text file from.
view/index.php
//Fetch the file based on the get variable
//Note the relative path
$file = file_get_contents('../notes/'.$_GET['file'].'.txt');
//Print the file. You can also dress it up or wrap it in HTML tags
echo $file;
When displaying the text file, there is some built in functions that will help. Most notable nl2br() which takes the new line characters in a text file and makes them into html <br> tags.
More reading on the GET array can be found here
I am using PHPRtfLite library (http://sigma-scripts.de/phprtflite/docs/index.html) to produce an RTF file using PHP and Yii.
So far, I've made a simple "Hello world" function.
Yii::import('ext.phprtf.PHPRtfLite');
Yii::registerAutoloader(array('PHPRtfLite','registerAutoloader'), true);
$rtf = new PHPRtfLite();
$sect = $rtf->addSection();
$sect->writeText('Hello world!', new PHPRtfLite_Font(), new PHPRtfLite_ParFormat());
//save rtf document
$rtf->sendRtf('takis.rtf');
File is created successfully, but when I open it (either wordpad or ms word) I do not see the actual content of the file but the raw code of the RTF:
{\rtf\ansi\deff0\fs20
{\fonttbl{\f0 Times New Roman;}}
{\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;}
{\info
}
\paperw11907 \paperh16840 \deftab1298 \margl1701 \margr1701 \margt567 \margb1134 \pgnstart1\ftnnar \aftnnrlc \ftnstart1 \aftnstart1
\pard \ql {\fs20 Hello world!}
}
Do you have any idea on how to solve this?
Thank you very much in advance.
To answer my own question, in case someone is having the same issue in the coming future...
It seems to be a problem of the sendRTF function. Now, I save the created file locally:
$rtf->save('takis.rtf');
and then generate a link for the user to download the file. This works pretty good.
I have experienced same thing myself. I'm not sure, if you had same reasons, but in my case, there was extra newline in the beginning of PHP file, before <?php tag. When I used sendRtf to download file from browser, that newline ended up also in RTF file, making it invalid and as result, raw rtf code was displayed. When using save, such extra characters won't reach to file.
So one thing to check in similar situations - open Rtf file in Notepad and examine beginning of file.
I'm trying to echo out an XML File via a PHP File. Like so:
Url visits viewxml.php?id=1
Php open a specific XML file, such as "xmlfile_".$_GET['id'].".xml" and prints it as if they are visiting the xml file itself.
The reason I'm using PHP is to do Session checks to make sure they are allowed to view the xml file.
This is how I am doing this:
header("Content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8");
// send the saved XML file.
include "xmlfile_".$id.".xml";
Doing this gives me the following GC XML error:
And there is nothing below it.
I have tried different approaches, such as printing it or turning it into a string but then I have problems reading the XML on certain software. I am hoping one of you can help me.
Thanks!
include() will attempt to evaluate the file; if there's something in there that looks like PHP then it will corrupt your results.
Try using readfile instead; this will only output the file contents.
Hi I have one file where I'm using file_get_contents to get another php file - the target file should run some php and output an HTML table, which it does if I just load it in the browser, however when I use file_get_contents to retrieve it, the php code is retrieved, not the html table.
Should I be using something different than file_get_contents?
What should I be using?
use include("filename.php") instead of file_get_contents
file_get_contents is for jut returning the contents of a file.