PHP Box Score Generator

DigitalMikey

Hello everyone, I'm a big newbie when it comes to PHP but I got a grasp as to what the language can do. I'm having a hard time trying to get my PHP based Box Score generator to work.

Basically I just want a user to input data in a few fields, press submit, get taken to a page that displays the data the user inputted and have a box that a user can copy and paste said generator code to display on their website or blog.

Here is my example:

User Input: http://sportsgamingleagues.com/generators/mlbgen.php

Display: http://sportsgamingleagues.com/generators/mlbresults.php

I'm trying to do this with out the use of a database or mySQL as I do not need to save any data. Just to receive and display.

An example of something similar but on a much larger scale: http://dynasties.operationsports.com/generator.php?id=3&sport=mlb

I just want something simple for myself to use but I can't figure out exactly what to do next. Should I be using the GET or POST function? How come when I press submit nothing happens? Sorry, if this is real basic. I have to start somewhere. Haha

Anyways, any help or guidance on my little project will be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys 🙂

Crowly

In mlbresults.php add this for debugging

echo "<pre>";
print_r($_POST);
echo "</pre>";

This will print out the content of $_POST, so you can see what is submitted in the form. For this type of page i think post is the right way to do it. You can use the same thing when using get, just replace $POST with $GET.

But it seems to be working, i just entered some test data, and that was displayed on the next page. This is the html from that result

<script type="text/javascript"> 
function SelectAll(id)
{
    document.getElementById(id).focus();
    document.getElementById(id).select();
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"> 
<!--
function MM_jumpMenu(targ,selObj,restore){ //v3.0
  eval(targ+".location='"+selObj.options[selObj.selectedIndex].value+"'");
  if (restore) selObj.selectedIndex=0;
}
//-->
</script>
<html>

<body>
<p>
  </p>
<p><a href="#" onClick="SelectAll('get');">Select All</a> (right click highlighted text to copy code) </p>
<label>
<textarea name="get" id="get" cols="45" rows="5">
<div  style="width:800px; color:#FFF; font-size:12px; font-weight:bold; padding:5px 0; text-indent:5px; background-color: #313B49;">Linescore Details</div>
<table width="800" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
      <tr style=" background-color:#CCC;">
        <td>Teams</td>
        <td>Runs</td>
        <td>Hits</td>
        <td>Home Runs</td>
        <td>Starting Pitcher</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align="center">Test1</td>
        <td align="center">5</td>
        <td align="center">12</td>
        <td align="center">1</td>
        <td align="center">a</td>
  </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align="center">Test2</td>
        <td align="center">12</td>
        <td align="center">30</td>
        <td align="center">5</td>
        <td align="center">b</td>
      </tr>
</table>
  </textarea>
</label>

<p>
<div  style="width:800px; color:#FFF; font-size:12px; font-weight:bold; padding:5px 0; text-indent:5px; background-color: #313B49;">Linescore Details</div>
<table width="800" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
      <tr style=" background-color:#CCC;">
        <td>Teams</td>
        <td>Runs</td>
        <td>Hits</td>
        <td>Home Runs</td>
        <td>Starting Pitcher</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align="center">Test1</td>
        <td align="center">5</td>
        <td align="center">12</td>
        <td align="center">1</td>
        <td align="center">a</td>
  </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align="center">Test2</td>
        <td align="center">12</td>
        <td align="center">30</td>
        <td align="center">5</td>
        <td align="center">b</td>
      </tr>
</table>
</p>
</body></html>

DigitalMikey

Thanks Crowly. I think I got it working now. Now I just have to style it correctly.