including html files into php

hkimscil

Hello,

I want to use old html files (in directories) within a php page, which automatically generates php files which would include the html files.

an html directory looks like:

topic1 (directory)
topic1.html
graph1.jpg
graph2.jpg

graph3.jpg

My idea is that I can use a php script, which would recursively check all the sub-directories, grab the html files; and generate php files in each directory.

The genreated php file would look like:

<?php
include 'header.php';
include 'topic1/topic1.html';
include 'footer.php';
?>

This would work EXCEPT when the html files have images files listed.

That is,

if, in the html code, there is a <img srg="graph1.jpg"> tag. the included topic1.html file would not render the graphic file at all since it seeks the root directory only.

If I change the code to:

This would work fine. But, if I do this, I would not be able to use the html files as they are 🙁

Is there a remedy for this?

Thanks for your reading and I would appreciate any input!!!

dolphinsnot

well, i don't have an all-out answer, but i can point you in the right direction.

instead of using the include statement, you can use file() in conjunction with implode() to load your file into a variable.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.implode.php

something like:

$html_array = file('topic1/topic1.html');
$html_string = implode($html_array);

you could then use regular expressions to find all occurrences of '<img src="' within $html_string, and replace them with '<img src=from/directory/heirechy/'

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.eregi.php

hope this helps!

-dolphinsnot

dolphinsnot

whoops! forgot these:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg-replace.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.eregi-replace.php

you'll certainly need them as well!

-dolphinsnot

hkimscil

Got it!

Thanks so much!!!