ereg_replace and filehandle help needed

Anon

I know a little PHP, but not enough to write my whole script. Any help or tips (on the whole or on a part) would be greatly appreciated.

I know I could do this with XML, but I don't have time to learn it before this project must be finished!

Here goes.

I have a bi-language html file. In each html tag, the french is surrounded by a <fr> tag, the german by a <de> tag. Like this:

<li><fr>french text</fr><de>german text</de></li>

So first, I need to assign the file to a filehandle (not sure how to do that!) and use ereg_replace to strip the tags off the "chosen" language, and delete everything in the "other language" tags.

I guess I need a regex which looks like:

<fr>[^{</fr>].*</fr>} - I guess it's not really correct, but that's as far as I've got.

Then I need to set the language. In a cookie? can PHP do that? Because if I call the page saying "/file.php?lang=fr", following any hyperlink will reset $lang and I lose my language setting.

I suppose the script which holds this together needs to set the filehandle to the file which was asked for, do the replacement depending on the value of $lang, and then feed the result to the browser (how do I make it do that?).

As you can see, I think I have the basic structure worked out, but I don't know enough to deal with the details.

Thanks a lot if you can help me out - for one part or another!!

Tara
http://www.tarastar.f2s.com/

Anon

you could set up a mysql database with your different expressions per page
row1: french words on index.php
row2 english words on index.php
row3 german words on index.php

use setcookie("language", $language); to store the web viewers language then check the cookie on each page to see what row to pull the language data from

or set a cookie then use if(french) frenchexpression elseif (german) german expression elseif(english) english expression
for each expression that you need to interperate to the viewers language.

just a few suggestions
hope it helps
josh

Anon

Hi Josh,

thanks a lot for your idea - unfortunately I can't use MySQL (I've had lots of trouble simple getting them to install PHP already).

I've managed to put together a script which would do what I want, but I'm having trouble debugging. I get a parse error for a line which reads:

$output=eval("$output");

you can access the source of the whole script on page
www.tarastar.f2s.com/orange/

Thanks a lot if you can help me with this!

Tara
www.tarastar.f2s.com

Anon

What should eval("$output") return if $output is not valid php script...
You must at last add ; at the end of your eval statement.
A valid eval would be:
$output2 = eval("\$output1 = \"\$output\";");
here, output would = output1 and output2 would be empty
I don't see the use you want to give to eval in the case of eval("$output;") and I dont understand the use of ?>$output<? since all it does is escape php to print $output.
You could juste skip the eval and print $output

My opinion
Wacky