use php to grab entered data and supply to HTML code?

bmarty

Sorry - this is complicated and I'm probably not describing it well.. is there a way to use php to grab a bunch of info from a form and input it into appropriate places in an HTML document to create a final result web page? E.g. form input information would be body text or a URL to be linked. the body of the HTML already exists.

in the example of the URL - i'm trying to take the user's input "http://www.google.com" and have it inserted into <a href= ></a>

stolzyboy

in short, yes... you will have to use php's file functions, along with php's pcre functions, you can find them here:

http://www.php.net/file
http://www.php.net/pcre

hth,
stolzyboy

ragedigital

bmarty wrote:
Sorry - this is complicated and I'm probably not describing it well.. is there a way to use php to grab a bunch of info from a form and input it into appropriate places in an HTML document to create a final result web page? E.g. form input information would be body text or a URL to be linked. the body of the HTML already exists.

in the example of the URL - i'm trying to take the user's input "http://www.google.com" and have it inserted into <a href= ></a>

Are you just looking for this?

$link = $_POST['URLfromFORM'];  //User supplied "http://www.google.com" from FORM

echo "<a href='".$link."'>URL</a>";//Prints <a href='http://www.google.com'>URL</a>

bmarty

ragedigital wrote:

Are you just looking for this?

$link = $_POST['URLfromFORM'];  //User supplied "http://www.google.com" from FORM

echo "<a href='".$link."'>URL</a>";//Prints <a href='http://www.google.com'>URL</a>

no, not exactly. i want the user supplied info to go into the HTML code of an exsisting HTML doc, to be uploaded as a new page.

stolzyboy

bmarty wrote:
no, not exactly. i want the user supplied info to go into the HTML code of an exsisting HTML doc, to be uploaded as a new page.

And to do that, you'll need the two functions (and possibly more) that I sent you to.