Writing on html templates using PHP

anshul · November 29th, 2004, 07:22 AM

i need help with this PHP trick:

i've c'in PHP pages that require a single or >1 .html page and write content on it. when u call that .php page, it'll show content-filled .html page in itself. i c markers like _______CON1_____ or ________MENU_____ etc. on these html template pages.

this is good idea2seperate html design from html content.
how PHP writes on that area ( markers ) ?

colin.horne · December 2nd, 2004, 12:34 PM

I personally prefer using this syntax:

And suchlike.

Then to replace those, you can do a very simple str_replace() on the template (although if you're making more advanced websites, this is genually not a good option).

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anshul · December 6th, 2004, 06:25 AM

Can someone tell?
How to open a file and seek occurence of "PAGE_NAME" in it and write "P2P_WROX" ib place of "PAGE_NAME". Rest of the content should remain unmodified.

fseek() or fgets() or other trick ? Please help

colin.horne · December 6th, 2004, 06:34 AM

Well, here are the functions you'll need:

To "seek" & replace:
  str_replace()
To get the contents of the file:
  file() or
  file_get_contents() if it's supported

To find out more information about those functions, go to www.php.net/<function_name>

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anshul · December 6th, 2004, 06:57 AM

u mean:
$handle=fopen("./file.php", w);
$data1=file_get_contents("./file.php");
$data2=str_replace(PAGE_NAME, anshul, $data1);
fwrite($handle, $data2);
fclose($handle);

thanx; this means get full-content, make many changes, and rewrite the file completely.

is this not possible by moving pointer to desired content in a file, write something, move pointer to another desired content, write something, rewind if neccessary, etc.

anshul · December 6th, 2004, 08:35 AM

still ur idea is working excellent!
can sometime now put some light on security issues and preventive solution, if any of concern ?
afterall, anonymous user can write into our files with just a mouse-click!

colin.horne · December 7th, 2004, 11:30 AM

Hmmm...

What I actually meant was something more like this :P

MyTemplate.html:
<html>
<title></title>
<body></body>
</html>

And then have myscript.php read mytemplate.html, and perhaps get the values out of a database... Possibly...

:-)

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richard.york · December 13th, 2004, 08:49 PM

PHP /is/ a template language already. Why would you use some proprietary format when you can simply use variables?

e.g.
<html>
<title>{$title}</title>
<body>{$body}</body>
</html>

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anshul · December 15th, 2004, 05:30 AM

one related question:

if suppose, we have an html template 'public_request.htm'
and a PHP script writes certain things on it based on users request and then redirects header location to it.

so 'public_request.htm' displays different things based on request type. i've doubt if this possible when many simultaneous requests need that one template open -n- write?

colin.horne · December 15th, 2004, 06:52 AM

In reply to richard.york's post.

My only worry about doing that is if variables in the template get displayed by accident, for example:

...
<body>
So if $X + $10 = $100, what is $X?
</body>
...

What should obviously have been written was "\$X", but that's easy to forget...

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