Need help with a script.

Anon

Hi, I'm new here and I'm new to PHP as well. I'm getting a job at a painting gallery. I'm going for the webmaster job but they expect me to make a changable frame around the selected image. Currently they are using CGI and JavaScript but want someone who can rewrite it in PHP. Then I'll will get a job for the general webmaster. How could I do this. I am very new to PHP. I know about the basics because I made a mail form on my website. Please help me.

Anon

How do you expect to keep the job if you get it using someone elses code?

Besides that what you want to do is fairly easy, depending on how complicated you want to get.

If all of your images are going to be the same size you just need to get the images for the frame edges put into the system, either database or file, and have some kind of naming structure. Then when the user selects to see the image inside a particular frame you use this naming structure to put the frame images into the html that shows the image, the same way your image gets put into the html.

So you'd have some files named something like:
wood_north.img
wood_east.img
wood_west.img
wood_south.img
wood_ne_corner.img
wood_nw_corner.img
wood_se_corner.img
wood_sw_corner.img

And when the user selects the wood frame you'd put into the html these images in the proper locations to build the look you want.

Anon

Ok, I got my script going but there is one problem. I think it might be my computer doesn't run PHP files from hard disk but only from the internet. If that is not the case, then why does it display all the php commands in my script when I open it? Here is my script:

<head><title>Frame Selector</title></head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">

<form method="post" action="">
<select name="select" size="1">
<option value="1">Frame 1</option>
<option value="2">Frame 2</option>
</select>
</form>
<?php
if ( select == 1 ) {
echo "<img src='images/frame1/cornerNW.gif'>";
echo "<img src='images/frame1/top.gif'>";
echo "<img src='images/frame1/cornerNE.gif'><br>";
echo "<img src='images/frame1/west.gif'>";
echo "<img src='images/selectedpicture.gif'>";
echo "<img src='images/frame1/east.gif'><br>";
echo "<img src='images/frame1/cornerSW.gif'>";
echo "<img src='images/frame1/bottom.gif'>";
echo "<img src='images/frame1/cornerSE.gif'><br>;
}
if ( select == 2 ) {
echo "<img src='images/frame2/cornerNW.gif'>";
echo "<img src='images/frame2/top.gif'>";
echo "<img src='images/frame2/cornerNE.gif'><br>";
echo "<img src='images/frame2/west.gif'>";
echo "<img src='images/selectedpicture.gif'>";
echo "<img src='images/frame2/east.gif'><br>";
echo "<img src='images/frame2/cornerSW.gif'>";
echo "<img src='images/frame2/bottom.gif'>";
echo "<img src='images/frame2/cornerSE.gif'><br>;
}
?>

Is there something wrong or is it just fine and will work?

Anon

I've recoded my script and It still won't work. I even tried uploading it on the internet to try but no success when I load it. What can I do to make this workout?