how to write html files from php3?

Anon

hello.
aomebody knows how to write html files from php3?

Anon

Write in on the disc for future use?

i don't know...

But what if you really want to know how it all works, write it like send it to the client?

just copy/upload your html files to the server changing the extension to .php or .php3, .php4, whatever the

when called, everything there is in the browser as if it never was a php file...

if you place some php tags inside the file, anywhere inside the file, the contents will be hidden, and only the contents of write() or echo() statements (as far - not far - as i know)

try

<BODY>
<?php ?>
echo('hello world');
?>
</BODY>

Have you tried www.php.net?

Anon

try to download a manual.

read it through.

Sonny

Anon

NO NO!
write on the server!
make html files to use !

Anon

u know html i pressumed then,

<?php
echo "<head><title>PHP HTML</title>";
echo "</head><body>";
echo "<p align=center>";
echo "<h1>HTML Written in PHP</h1>";
echo "</body>";
?>

If im not wrong, i guess thats what u mean.

Glad to be of service.

Sonny

Anon

sorry, very funny
I sometimes feel like i'm boring and headless with all the doubts I post here and there, so I just thought I had the chance to say something usefull, wrong

but try www.php.net anyway...

just write 'write file' in the search reference box...

Dudy wrote:

NO NO!
write on the server!
make html files to use !

Anon

Basically, instead of echoing anything to the screen, you put all of the html into a variable, then write that variable to a file...

Say you had a form that got a persons name and you want to create a file named after them that is plain html...

write_html.php

<?php
$filename = $name . ".html";

$fp = fopen($filename,"w");

$output = "\n<head>\n<title>This is a page for $name</title>\n</head>\n";

$output .= "<body>This is a page designed just for $name. Do you like it?</body>\n\n";

fwrite($fp,$output);

fclose($ft);
?>

<head>
<title>Creating your own page...</title>
</head>

<body>
I've created a page just for you. To see it click <a href="<?php echo $filename; ?>">here</a> to see it.
</body>

That should give you an idea.....

---John Holmes...

Anon

yes i think this is what he meant. also check out :

http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/PHP101_5/

it explains a bit about writing and reading files.

Anon

Thats a good one but isnt it too much work?

i mean, you have to type those escape "\"
and save it to disk then open it again,
and display it to the browser which takes
the server to execute those things.

Whatever.

try :

<head><title>An HTML included in PHP</title>
</head>
<body>
This is an external file
</body>

save it as external.txt

create a:

<? include("external.txt"); ?>

save it as html.php3

that way, i think is much more easier.

Sonny

Anon

You guys are being a little too harsh with this guy 🙂

Anyway, there are times that writing HTML files based on output from a PHP script is a good thing. For example, in a product catalog. If your products don't change very often, why not create a flat HTML file that produces the catalog page to the client? Much more scalable then having the clients hit the DB every single time, and must faster as well.

Anon

I think the issue was that he wanted to "create" the html files, each one will be different based on user input, database, random, etc...

For your example, why not just name it external.html and be done with it?

Another way to do this would be to have a template saved as a text file. Maybe something like this:

<head>
<title>A page for </title>
</head>
<body>
I created this page for 
</body>

Then, you open the file, read it into a variable, and run replaces on it, to change  into whatever you want...

<?php
$fp = fopen("template.txt","r");
$contents = file($fp);
fclose($fp);

$name = "John";

$contents = str_replace("",$name,$contents);

$new_file = $name . ".html";

$fp2 = fopen($new_file,"w");
fwrite($fp2,$contents);
fclose($fp2);

Maybe that'll help you out, too....

---John Holmes...

Anon

I want to put multiple html lines in a single variable and print the variable depending upon some conditions. Can I do it?

Anon

I want to put multiple html lines in a single variable and print the variable depending upon some conditions. Can I do it?

Anon

Yes, of course...

<?
$var = "<b>Put your html here</b>

and here...

etc..., just <i>don't</i> use any double

quotes...\"escape\" them if you do...

echo $var;

---John Holmes...