write onto a diff file

babygodzilla

so i want this script thats supposed to generate tables with CSS already attached. that part i can do. my question is how do i write the html code onto a temporary file? and how do i generate temporary files? how do i delete a file after a user's done with it?

Pig

If you tell us more about what you are doing, we might be able to help more. If all you want to do is display some HTML, i would just build a $var that has it all. For instance, if you want to display an entire page of HTML, you could load your var up with everything you want to put in the file. Then to display the page you can pass the var to a page that is empty except a line like:
<?php
if( isset($code) ) echo $code;
else echo("You have accessed this page incorrectly");
?>

If you wanted to display the code, you can just put in into a <textarea>

babygodzilla

yes that's sort of what i want. but instead of the code i want the actual page displayed. sorry im not quite following you. how do i put all the HTML into $var and then display it?

Pig

build your var like so:

$page = "<html><body>";
//buch of stuff here to determine what your page should look like
//eg: if( $this == $that ) $page .= "blah blah blah";
$page .= "</body></html>";

then once you have your page built, you would pass $page to a page that is blank, except for this:
<?php
if( isset($code) ) echo $code;
else echo("You have accessed this page incorrectly");
?>

That blank page looks for the $page. if it finds it, it writes all the code. In the end, you have a page with nothing but what you built into $page.