Sending a page by PHP

Danesh_D

Hi all,

I am new to PHP. I want to create a server side PHP which simply send a created HTML page to the user's browser. I use "exec" to run a program with some parameters and the program will create a HTML page. I want to send this page to user's borswer. I know that "echo" will send a text to user's browser but I want to send a pre-created HTML (the whole page) to user. I am not sure but I think "POST" is that I should use. Can any body help with a simple sample code ?

Regards,

Danesh Daroui

drew010

if you use the [man]system[/man] function, you can run the program just the same except the output will be send straight to the browser rather than placed in an array like it is with exec.

Danesh_D

Thanks for youe help, bur I don't think this works for me. In fact I have a program (which will be called by my code in PHP) and I will pass to it a pramater and it will retrieve some images and will create a complete and ready to show HTML file. Now, I want to just "show a ready page to user". How can I send a ready page to user ? Just like "echo" but echo only shows a text butI need a way to send a complete page with images and... .

Regards,

Danesh

drew010

more precisely echo sends text, but if its html code, and the person/thing receiving it is capable of displaying html, it will show up as a webpage.

if the program writes the page to a file, then [man]file_get_contents[/man] might be what you will want to use to show the page.

also, depending on how complex this program is, you could get php to do the same thing without the additional overhead of calling an external program.

is there any relevant code you have already that could help me understand what you are doing?

pburness

could the 'include' statement be used here too?
if ($successfulpagegeneration) {
include "newpage.html";
exit();
}

Danesh_D

Well, I use this, but however the file I call, test.php exists in the root directory that my index.php5 is there, but I get this error. Is there anything in my PHP settings that I should change ?

Warning: file_get_contents(test.php) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in c:\Webs\Test\index.php5 on line 2

Regards,

Danesh

drew010

you could try an absolute path with it,
echo file_get_contents('C:/Webs/Test/test.php');

Danesh_D

Thanks drew. Now it works but by using absolute path and "readfile()" function. Thnaks again. By the way, the program I use to call is a program that simply connects to a database (ADO database) and so a search and create a HTML file. I think it is very easy to be implemented in PHP: I will change that later.

Regards,

Danesh