converting html content to php content

amit_shetye

hi all,

i want to convert the html content into php content dynamically.

//html code
<html>
<body>how are you?</body>
</html>

the above html code should be be look like this after converting to php

//php code
<?php
$body = how are you?;
?>

i found couple of softwares for html to php conversion but that is manually i.e. each time i had to convert my html content into php but i want it dynamically.

is it possible??

thanks in advance

regards

amit

Jason_Batten

Awww, noobs are SO cute. Can I keep him? PLEASE!

PHP does things. HTML displays things.
PHP can be used to generate HTML.

You don't need to convert HTML content into PHP content. I think I can understand what you are trying to do, I was and still am a noob and forever will be 🙂

Example HTML

<html>
<body>
<p>I'm going to go accross the street and get you some orange sherbert</p>
</body>
</html>

Example PHP

<?php
$string = '<p>I'm going to go accross the street and get you some orange sherbert</p>';
echo '<html>';
echo '<body>';
echo "$string";
echo '</body>';
echo '</html>';
?>

The PHP example would display exactly as the HTML version. No difference. I hope this explains at least something and answers your question :bemused:

Look for Larry Ullmans PHP for the World Wide Web 2nd Edition book 😉

bpat1434

well, gee... i guess it could be possible... I mean you could do something liek that with Regex....

$tags = array('p','span','td','div');

foreach($tags as $tag)
{
    $pattern = "#<".$tag."[a-zA-Z-=\".]*?>([a-zA-Z0-9.<>\/\\]*)<\/".$tag.">#i";
    preg_match($pattern, $contents, $matches);
    var_dump($matches);
    echo '<br>';
}

?>

Something like that could work....

~Brett

amit_shetye

hi guys,

i think u guys didn't get me properly.

actually i want to convert the html pages into the php and store them as a variable in php and so that i can able to display that variables in flash.

so anybody is having any idea?

thanks in advance

regards

amit

bpat1434

umm... normally if you'd want to do this, you'd need a serialization class (to be run via PHP to the output), and sending a variable that large would actually take a long time (depending upon the page size). It is suggested that you manually remove the information and put it in an XML file (which is easier to deal with in flash), or into text files (which is even easier).

It would be insane to get all that information if the page is huge. But you could run a regex that would put all the information between the "<body>" tags into a variable. Is that what you want? Code to run on a page to get all the HTML between the <body> tags into a variable? If so, you can do this:

<?php
$contents = file_get_contents('somefile.html');
$start = strpos('<body>', $contents);
$end = strpos('</body>', $contents, $start);
$contents = substr($contents, $start, $end-$start);
?>

Then the variable $contents contains all HTML code in between the body tags.

~Brett

amit_shetye

hi,
Brett

thanks for the help 🙂

i have compile ur code. But when i'm compiling and executing ur code i hav got the warning i.e.
strpos(): Empty delimiter. in \igappserv\flash_debug_tmp.php on line 3
strpos(): Empty delimiter. in \igappserv\flash_debug_tmp.php on line 4
😕

so will u explained me why it is happening?

regards

amit

_theworks

As far as im aware php is a scripting language which is interpreted, compiled to machine code then executed by the CPU

so there is no need to compile it.

amit_shetye

hi,

i mean to say when i'm typing the file path into the browser i'm getting that error.

reagrds
amit

_theworks

Oh ok i see now..

well i ran the code...

<?php
$contents = file_get_contents('somefile.html');
$start = strpos('<body>', $contents);
$end = strpos('</body>', $contents, $start);
$contents = substr($contents, $start, $end-$start);
?>

and it worked just fine..

so then i did this...

<?php
$contents = '';
$start = strpos('<body>', $contents);
$end = strpos('</body>', $contents, $start);
$contents = substr($contents, $start, $end-$start);
?>

and it returned

Warning: strpos() [function.strpos]: Empty delimiter. in V:\Core\htdocs\test.php on line 3

Warning: strpos() [function.strpos]: Empty delimiter. in V:\Core\htdocs\test.php on line 4

ok so this means the html file your opening is empty.

amit_shetye

hi,

actually i ran the same code but it is giving me the problem.

see i had created one testphp.html file as below:

<html>
<body>
This is test for converting html into php
</body>
</html>

then i type the following code in php:

<?php
$contents = file_get_contents('testphp.html');
$start = strpos('<body>', $contents);
$end = strpos('</body>', $contents, $start);
$contents = substr($contents, $start, $end-$start);
echo $contents;
?>

and when i ran the code it is not showing me anything
😕

regards

amit

_theworks

heh ok i got the blank screen too, however i didnt try echoing $contents so thats all i expected... a blank screen. however after attempting to echo it i realized that the attributes for strpos are the wrong way round...

<?php
$contents = file_get_contents('your_file.htm');
$start = strpos($contents,'<body>');
$end = strpos($contents,'</body>' ,$start);
$contents = substr($contents, $start+6, $end-$start);
echo $contents;
?>

bpat1434

Yeah, if you switch the strpos() elements around (my bad) it will work. So this code should work for you:

<?php
$contents = file_get_contents('your_file.htm');
$start = strpos($contents, '<body>');
$end = strpos($contents, '</body>', $start);
$contents = substr($contents, $start+6, $end-$start);
echo str_replace("<", "&lt;", $contents);
?>

~Brett