merge two html from php

[ranganathanp]

Hi,

I have two html pages in one directory, my php page should reads both the files and merge the html documents into one file and merged file should be created newly using file system.

regds.,
R

[Installer]

$a_str = file_get_contents('file_a.html');
$b_str = file_get_contents('file_b.html');
$a_b_str = $a_str . $b_str;
$fp = fopen('a_b_file.html', 'w');
fwrite($fp, $a_b_str);
fclose($fp);

[ranganathanp]

hi thanks for reply,

can we insert the second file in middle of the first file, say inside a table row.

[Installer]

I knew that'd be coming. 🙂

Yes, you can. How easy or difficult it would be would depend on the complexity of the page, of course, and whether you're using css or straight html, etc. But, simply, say you want to insert it into the first column of the first row of the first table, and you had a plain "<td>" tag there:

$td_pos = strpos($a_str, '<td>'); // Where "<td>" starts
$insert_pos = $td_pos + strlen('<td>'); // Where to insert
$a_first = substr($a_str, 0, $td_pos)
$a_second = substr($a_str, $insert_pos) // Split in two
$final_str = $a_first . $b_str . $a_second; // Join all

// Or

$final_str = str_replace('<td>', '<td>' . $b_str, $a_str, 1);