Quotations & HTML , Simple question

Dax

ok well i got a problem with the paging i do, i added all my pages to one file, and just made links go default.php?page=default

and i put in a "include file.php" and put in all my pages in there...
now my problem is, im sick of getting rid of the quotations, cuz WHAT I do is: echo "<--myhtml-->"; but i have to replace all the ", with ' or /" so they wont override my echo...

thus,,, pretend:

if ($page== "default") {
echo"<a href="order.php">order now!</a>";
}

now i want to do this cuz i dont want to change " manually... so...

if ($page == "default") {
$that = "<a href="order.php">order now!</a>";
ereg_replace(""", "", $that);
}

seee, how can i replace double-quotes to make it nothing, so i wanna get rid of double quotes, how do i do this? it dont work...

Thanks

drawmack

Originally posted by Dax
ereg_replace("\"", "", $that);
but this is not valid xhtml so I would leave the double quotes alone.

Dax

how am i suppose to fit

echo" <a href=""> ";

it doesnt work, i have to edit it manually every time, i either put ', or /" which takes a loooong time...

drawmack

instead of replacing to squash the " replace to escape the "

ereg_replace("\"","\\"",$var);

Dax

now i believe ur "coding while u sleep" trick, good idea.... thzxxxxx

🆒

Dax

no i take that back...

look closer:

{
$that = "<div align="center"><a href="">M</a></div>"
ereg_replace("\"","\\\"",$that);
}

how does it know how to replace it, if it doesnt even understand what $that is, the quotes make my code messed up, so my script doesnt have a change to get to ereg_replace, it messes up from the beggining because it thinks that $that is

<div align=

how do i get $that, to be equal to a text file that already has quotes

HalfaBee

How about

$that = file_get_contents( "file.html" );

HalfaBee

drawmack

{
$that = "<div align="center"><a href="">M</a></div>"
ereg_replace("\"","\\\"",$that);
}

where are you getting this:

<div align="center"><a href="">M</a></div>

from in the first place?

Dax

i write my HTML into $that, so when i do that, see look:

$that = "<a href=""></a><a href="blabla"></a>";
ereg_replace("/"","\\\", $that);

have u noticed that my 'blablabla' is not reading...

Dax

i need a triple quote, i need to include texxt with quotations into a variable that is assigned BY QUOTATIONs what this does is, goes out of it's boundary and makes my

ereg_replace color red
it also makes my ; red also, and THUS i get a parse error

drawmack

$that = "<a href=""></a><a href="blabla"></a>";
ereg_replace("/"","\\\", $that);

where are you getting the text that you're piping into $that?

Is this coming from a file?

Have you typed it into your php script?

where is it coming from?

borntodie

As much as doing things manually sucks...search and replace in a decent PHP IDE would get rid of this in seconds would it not? :eek:

Zend: Ctrl + H
Maguma Ctrl + R

I'm just starting to use Zend but in Maguma you could open any file in question and do a search and replace on all of the currently open files...

Dax

drawmack: i type in my html
it is a big ass thing, first i do it in dreamweaver then i add it into $that = " "; and paste it into the little space

as for borntodie, i dunno wth u r talkin about..

drawmack

using dreamweaver is your first problem.

If I were you I would write a little per script called html2php.pl that did all this for me using regex. It would only be about ten lines of code and you could make it crawl from the strating directory down.

I have one that does html2perl I'll see if I can dig it up.

Dax

dude i dont like perl and i dont know perl, and whats wrong with dreamweaver, u can see the colors which help...

now what else can i do to solve my problem?

drawmack

Dreamweaver is a wysiwyg editor and it has the same problem as all other wysiwyg editors and that is things like you're running into right now.

If you hand coded your site you wouldn't have this problem.

The best solution is a script that will automatically process the text for you.

Question: How can you not like PERL when you don't even know it?

Dax

well i found myself a solution cuz no other ones work... so..

if ($page == "order") {
$filename = "order.txt";
$thefile = @fopen($filename, "r") or die("where the hell is the file?");
$contents = fread($thefile, filesize($filename));
ereg_replace("\"","\\\"", $contents);
echo $contents;
fclose($thefile);
}

i put my html into a txt file, which pretty much eliminated the point of my proccess but, what the hey...

Dax

easy... cuz of ur icon

drawmack

Dax - don't ever base your opinions on those of others.

I hate PERL for webdev but it's great at text processing.

Dax

hehe... 😉

good but i dunno what that means anyhoo