Creating HTML page using php

McowboyE19

Hey, I need a little bit of help with some code i'm writing. Let me explain what i'm trying to do first of all.

I am trying to create a script which will generate repetitive html code for me and save it to a text file. I have thumbnails on my site which link to the larger version of the image. Both images have the same filenames. Each image has this same exact html code, with the exception of the image name. All the images will need to be in the correct locations in order for this to work, as well have names like 1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg etc...

My create.php page creates the file, and writes to the file x number of times (as inputed by the user). Here is my php code:

<?php

$s = $POST['start'];
$e = $POST['end'];
$data = "Problem is here!!";

$file = $_POST['filename'];

for ($s=1; $s<=$e; $s++)
{
if (!$file_handle = fopen($file,"a")) { echo "Cannot open file"; }

if (!fwrite($file_handle, $data)) { echo "Cannot write to file"; }

fclose($file_handle);

}

The problem here is the $data variable. I get a parse error (invalid string) when i enter in the html coding that i'm trying to replicate. Can you guys think of any way to get around this? Do you understand what i'm trying to do?

Thank you so much! 😃

Jason

nemonoman

Your approach is really sort of unnecessary, if you think about it: if you can create the code on the fly, you don't need to write it to a file, do you?

My guess is you might be having trouble with the doublequotes in your $data. I assume you are creating $data on the fly before you try to save it? echo $data before the write and tell us what it looks like...my guess is that the problem will be apparent in $data's output.

McowboyE19

Hey, thanks for the quick response.

I get a parse error even when I echo it saying unexpected T_STRING. This happens before i try to write to the file.

What im trying to accomplish by this is that $data would stay exactly the same, except for the image number (which would be stored in $s). So, the image name would be something like

$s.jpg

(I guess this means i need to declare $data inside the for loop)

I mostly program in Java, and i'm relatively new to PHP, so I dont know if i can accomplish something like $s.jpg...

Thank you!

nemonoman

What you're trying to do is quite manageable in PHP. You're likely screwing up your quotes as you build the output string.

McowboyE19

Im glad to hear that it's manageable. Good news, i just tried to put a simple section of code in the $data variable:

<html>Hey You</html> and everything worked just as i would have liked it to! Im just going to have to be careful and build my data variable slowly.

One last question if your not busy, is this how i would correctly incorporate the int $s into the address?

$data="<img src="http://mydomain.com/pics/image" + $s + ".jpg>""

that's how i would do it in Java, does it work for PHP also?

McowboyE19

I LOVE PHP! I figured it all out. I needed to use ' instead of " when i was inside of data's "". Anyways, I figured out php's way of concatinating text (much easier than java). Everything is working splendid! Thank you nemonoman!

Weedpacket

Actually, a look in the manual at how PHP handles strings might have suggested

$data = <<<END
<p align="center">
<a href="../Picture-Video/Snowmaking_Sue15B/04011010.JPG">
...etc
END;

with no trouble about whether to use ' or " or whether or not to escape them (END...END act like custom quotes).

BuzzLY

Weed, are you on a manual rampage again? :p