I am in need of the code that will put a picture and article on my front page

FloodedSlough

Let me first say thanks for having a site like this and also having a newbie form for wantabe's like me. I don't claim to know anything about PHP, but I do want to learn enough to be dangerous.

I have inherated a site and need to post up a picture and an article to go with it.
If one of you could share the code to allow this to happen that would be greatly appreciated.

Be sure to tell me where in the code to place the picture and article as I won't know where.

Thanks in advance,
FS

slaya

Is there going to be ONLY one image/article at one time or something like a news script which keeps adding more and displays all of them? and would you like to use MySQL or a flatfile?

FloodedSlough

thanks for replying slaya,
I would like the image and articles to change periodically. But once I see how to get the first ones up then I can make the changes when needed. These images and articles will be like the latest chapter news.

I'm not sure what MySQL is so I will say a flat file.

Here's my webpage addy

Georgia Delta Website

I have created a few html pages in word with what I want to go on the front page and have heard that all I need to do is place these in the correct directory.

slaya

Im fairly new to PHP so there might be better ways to do what you want, but this is what I came up with, its nothing great and might be a little buggy but im giving you something to start with not a complete script. This script will not work if register_globals is off or if the webserver is on windows.. if register_globals is off it wont take much editing to make it work, and I can do that for you..

Create a blank file called file.txt and set the permissions to 666

file.php

$file = file_get_contents("file.txt");

$file2 = explode("|", $file);

echo "<img src=\"$file2[0]\">";
echo "<br>";
echo $file2[1];

add.php

echo "<form action=\"add1.php\" method=\"post\">
  <input type=\"text\" name=\"link\">
  <input type=\"text\" name=\"desc\">
  <input type=\"submit\">
</form>";

add1.php

$open = fopen("file.txt","w");
$data = $link . "|" . $desc;
fwrite($open, $data);
fclose($open);
echo "Image and description added";

good luck!

slaya

Ok I edited it like 4times, now its done.. good luck again!

tekky

Originally posted by slaya
Im fairly new to PHP so there might be better ways to do what you want........

add.php

if (!isset($_POST['submit']))
{
     echo '<form action="add.php" method="post">
     <input type="text" name="link">
     <input type="text" name="desc">
     <input name="submit" value="submit" type="submit">
     </form>';
}
else
{ //submit was clicked... so we handle the addition now
     $open = fopen('file.txt','w');
     $data = $_POST['link'] . '|'. $desc;
     fwrite($open, $data);
     fclose($open);
     echo 'Image <b>' . $_POST['link'] . '</b>and description <i>' . $_POST['desc'] . '</i> added';
}

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Just showing you an alternative... 🙂 when doing 2 simple tasks like this, its not hard to combine it into 1 PHP file, and 1 way to speed up your scripts a tiny bit... if not parsing variables in a string.... ie not "This is my cats name: $kitty" then use 'single quotes so PHP wont reparse it looking for variables, it already knows its a static string' ohh and a second advantage of ' over " is that you can use double quotes w/o escaping them 😉 also in hindsight I should say, if you use any special chars like \n\r ina string, you need to use " " so the \n\r gets evaluated, or append it using a small string that used " "

I also set it up to work with out register globals on 😉

the file.php was done rather well, so I didnt make any changes there 🙂

hope this helps you both 🙂

FloodedSlough

Thanks!
I'll give these a try and see what I get.
I do appreciate the script.

slaya

Thanks for the tips tekky.

tekky

Originally posted by slaya
Thanks for the tips tecky.

your welcome 🙂