PHP - Php Echo Html As Plaintext

I'm trying to learn php, and I've picked up a php/mysql member system type script, and I'm trying to put the login/sign-up forms into my own pages. The problem I'm having though is getting PHP and HTML to work in the same echo"";

Hi all.  I have this code.


<?php $ext = ' <form action="/members/clubs/view-activity.php" method="post" name="venuefrm">
            <button type="submit" id="close" class="link"><span>View Activity</span></button>
            <input name="activity" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $activites['activityID']; ?>" />
            </form>'; 

?>


The code falls down at the  value="<?php echo $activites['activityID']; ?>" part.

Can someone please show me how I break into php to write this part properly as I dont understand an it is obviously wrong.

Thanks

Danny

A week ago i thought i saw something about another way to display a form in the php manual but cant find it anymore.
so im wondering is there another way to echo a form with out echoing every html line.

I'm redoing my login script using functions and a basic switch function checking against a $_GET variable (hope you guys know what I'm talking about).

What I want to do is create two functions:

1 that displays the login form
and 1 that processes the information

The form tag would look like this:
<form action=\"<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>?action=process\" method=\"post\">
</form>

Here's my switch statement:
Code: [Select]
<?php

//****************************************
//****************Action******************
//****************************************

switch ($_GET["action"]) {
default:
case "index":
if (!$_SESSION["member"]) {
if (!$timeout) {
display_form();
} else {
echo $timeout_error;
}
} else {
echo "You are already logged in.";
}
break;
case "process":
if (!$_SESSION["member"]) {
if (!$timeout) {
process_form();
} else {
echo $timeout_error;
}
} else {
echo "You are already logged in.";
}
break;
}

?>

This runs as soon as "login.php" loads.

It'll automatically run the commands under case "default" and "index". It'll first check to see if the member's logged in. If not, it'll then check to see if "$timeout" is true ($timeout becomes true if the member has attempted to login 5 times and failed). If not, it'll display the login form, by running "display_form()".

Once the form has been filled and submitted, the commands under case "process" will be performed. Again it will first check to see if the member's logged in. If not, it'll check to see if "$timeout" is true. If not, it'll start validating the forms.

For the validation, I've created a variable called "$errors_found", and scripted one if statement checking to see if the email and password exist. If so, the variables "$rm_field_un" and "$rm_field_pw" become true, as well as "$errors_found".

So, back to submission of the form...

If "$errors_found" is true, display the form (when the form is displayed, there will be an if statement within that says "<?php if ($rm_field_un) { echo "Username is wrong."; } ?>", which will be displayed right underneath the username field and label. Same with the password elements). If "$errors_found" is not true, go ahead and register the member.

Now, here's where I need help, because I'm really confused as to how to accomplish this.

The "display_form()" function will contain a single variable called "$login_form". It will contain a value of the HTML constructed login form, and the function will return the variable.

Remember how I stated in the third paragraph up that I will have <php> statements within the form which would display errors if necessary? Well, how do I put those if statements within the HTML, which is contained within the variable?

If that last question confuses you, allow me to present you with an instance:
Code: [Select]
<?php

function display_form() {
$login_form = "
<form name=\"login_form\" method=\"post\" action=\"<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>?action=process\">
Username:
<input type=\"text\">
<?php if ($rm_field_un) { echo "Username is wrong"; } ?>
";

return $login_form;
}

?>

See what I mean?

This code confuses me ALOT. I'm not sure if the <php> tags are needed as it is already contained within existing ones, or what. Can somebody please help me out?

Any and all help is much appreciated. =D

Hi,

I have the following method but I can not work out why the html it echo's comes out in reverse?

Code: [Select]
public function pageNmLoop ($pageCnt, $pageStartListings, $filter) {
for ($n=1; $n<=$pageCnt; $n++){
if ($n > $this->recordLimit) {
break;
}

if ($n*$this->recordLimit>=intval($pageStartListings)){
$stylePg = '" style="border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; background-color: #CCCCCC; padding: 3px; ">' . $n . '</a>';
}
else {
$stylePg = '">' . $n . '</a>';
}

echo '| <a href="?pageStartListings=' . $n*$this->recordLimit . '&filter=' . rawurlencode($filter) . $stylePg ;

}
}


The HTML it produces is as follows:

Code: [Select]
Page:
<a href="?pageStartListings=0&filter=listingStatus=0">1</a>
|
<a style="border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; background-color: #CCCCCC; padding: 3px; " href="?pageStartListings=100&filter=listingStatus%3D0">1</a>
|
<a style="border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; background-color: #CCCCCC; padding: 3px; " href="?pageStartListings=200&filter=listingStatus%3D0">2</a>
|
<a style="border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; background-color: #CCCCCC; padding: 3px; " href="?pageStartListings=300&filter=listingStatus%3D0">3</a>

Probably some obvious newbie error but be grateful for a pointer.

Many thanks

Hi, I have this snippet in my page:

<?php echo $EM_Booking->get_price(true) * $EM_Booking->get_spaces(); ?>

The page executes with no hitches except the price is not multiplied by the spaces. I get and echo of "0".   I'm new to this. Any help would be greatly appreciated and thanks!

I have this form I am trying to process, but it won't work?
if($count==0){

Code: [Select]
echo "That Bidder Number is NOT logged in, ";
echo "would you like to set this bidder as active?";
echo " Enter 1 for NO or 2 for YES";
echo "<form action= \"process.php\" method= \"POST\">";
echo "<input type =\"text\" name= \"logUser\"/>";
echo "<input type= \"submit\" value = \"Submit\"/>";
$logUser= isset($_POST['logUser']) ? $_POST['logUser'] : '';
header("Location: process.php");
exit();
}

All I want to do is process the users input and either input data into the database or simply redirect the user.
Why the hell is this so complicated for??

I am processing the form on the same page it is displayed.

Here's my procressing
Code: [Select]
if ($logUser= 1) {
header("Location: inprogress.php");
exit();
}

else if ($logUser= 2){
// Add $biddersId and redirect to anypage
mysql_connect("$host", "$db_user", "$db_password")or die("cannot connect to server");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");

mysql_Query("INSERT INTO bidders (biddersId)
VALUES ('$winningBidder')");

 

mysql_query("INSERT INTO transactions (itemDescription, itemPrice, bidderId, itemQty , totalPrice)
 VALUES('$itemDescription', '$itemPrice','$winningBidder', '$itemQty', '$totalPrice')")
or die(mysql_error());   
header("Location: inprogress.php");
exit();
   }

i need help here..i want to echo a lage code of html but it is giving me problems..i know it will hv to do with the syntax but am confused on how to go about it..below is the php code and the html codes Code: [Select]
<?php
include"header.php";
session_start();

if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$log=mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['mail1']);
$pas=($_POST['pass1']);
if($log=='' || $pas=='')
{
echo "Please supply your Username(your email address) and your password";
}
else
{
$sel="SELECT user_name,userID FROM user  WHERE (user_email='$log') AND (user_password='$pas')";
$ok=mysql_query($sel) or die(mysql_error());
if(mysql_num_rows($ok)==0)echo"Wroung Username or Password used,Please try again";
else
{
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($ok))
{
  $_SESSION['userID']=$row['userID'];
  $_SESSION['user_name']=$row['user_name'];
  $_SESSION['user_date']=$row['user_date'];
  echo $_SESSION['user_date']=$row['user_date'];
  echo"this is where i want to put the html codes so that the user_name appears on the page".$_SESSION['user_name'];
}
}
}
}
mysql_close();
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Thanks in advance
and this is the html

Good day to everybody !
            I'm working on a small to-do list.

I have created a text editor to add  no todo to it. Here is the code :






<script>
//modified version of http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum91/4686.htm
//myField accepts an object reference, myValue accepts the text string to add
function insertAtCursor(myField, myValue) {
 //fixed scroll position
 textAreaScrollPosition = myField.scrollTop;
    //IE support
    if (document.selection) {
        myField.focus();
        //in effect we are creating a text range with zero
        //length at the cursor location and replacing it
        //with myValue
        sel = document.selection.createRange();
        sel.text = myValue;
    //Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape 7+ support
    } else if (myField.selectionStart || myField.selectionStart == '0') {
        myField.focus();
        //Here we get the start and end points of the
        //selection. Then we create substrings up to the
        //start of the selection and from the end point
        //of the selection to the end of the field value.
        //Then we concatenate the first substring, myValue,
        //and the second substring to get the new value.
        var startPos = myField.selectionStart;
        var endPos = myField.selectionEnd;
        myField.value = myField.value.substring(0, startPos) + myValue + myField.value.substring(endPos, myField.value.length);
        myField.setSelectionRange(endPos+myValue.length, endPos+myValue.length);
    } else {
        myField.value += myValue;
    }
 //fixed scroll position
 myField.scrollTop = textAreaScrollPosition;
 
}
</script>



<form action="ajoutage.php" method="post" name="ajout" id="ajout">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing"0" border="0">


<input type="hidden" name="sujet" value="<?PHP echo $_GET['sujet']; ?>"/>
<input type="hidden" name="categorie" value="<?PHP echo $_GET['categorie']; ?>"/>


<tr><td width="85px">Titre : </td><td><input type="text" name="titre"/></td>
    <td></td>
    <td>Ajouteur : </td><td align="right"><input type="text" name="ajouteur" value="<?PHP echo $qui; ?>"/></td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="85px">Sujet : </td><td><input type="text" name="sujet"/></td>
    <td></td>
    <td>Status : </td><td align="right"><input type="text" name="status"/></td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="85px">Cat&eacute;gorie : </td><td><input type="text" name="categorie"/></td>
    <td></td>
    <td>Niveau : </td><td align="right"><input type="text" name="niveau"/></td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="5">T&acirc;che :
<a href="#" onClick="insertAtCursor(document.ajout.tache, '<tr><td></td>\n<td>*&0&*</td>\n</tr>\n')">Progress</a> | 
<a href="#" onClick="insertAtCursor(document.ajout.tache, '<tr colspan=3>\n<td></td>\n</tr>\n')">Pleinne</a> | 
<br><textarea name="tache" id="tache" cols="70" rows="20"  wrap="off"  spellcheck="false"></textarea></td>
</tr>


<tr><td colspan="5"><input type="submit" value="Ajouter"/></td></tr>


</table>
</form>




It works very fine, as you can see there is to links that is use to add some text in the textarea, where ever the cursor is.

Where it starts :
I have also created another form to modify the todo's once they are created.
The only problem here is that my 2 links for adding text to the textarea don't work at all, they do nothng, no error shown, no text added.

Here is the code use to modify the todos once created:




<script type="text/javascript">
//modified version of http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum91/4686.htm
//myField accepts an object reference, myValue accepts the text string to add
function insertAtCursor(myField, myValue) {
 //fixed scroll position
 textAreaScrollPosition = myField.scrollTop;
    //IE support
    if (document.selection) {
        myField.focus();
        //in effect we are creating a text range with zero
        //length at the cursor location and replacing it
        //with myValue
        sel = document.selection.createRange();
        sel.text = myValue;
    //Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape 7+ support
    } else if (myField.selectionStart || myField.selectionStart == '0') {
        myField.focus();
        //Here we get the start and end points of the
        //selection. Then we create substrings up to the
        //start of the selection and from the end point
        //of the selection to the end of the field value.
        //Then we concatenate the first substring, myValue,
        //and the second substring to get the new value.
        var startPos = myField.selectionStart;
        var endPos = myField.selectionEnd;
        myField.value = myField.value.substring(0, startPos) + myValue + myField.value.substring(endPos, myField.value.length);
        myField.setSelectionRange(endPos+myValue.length, endPos+myValue.length);
    } else {
        myField.value += myValue;
    }
 //fixed scroll position
 myField.scrollTop = textAreaScrollPosition;
 
}
</script>


<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","XXXXXX","XXXXXX");
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db("XXXXXX", $con);



$id = $_GET['id'];
$qui = $_GET['qui'];
$sujet = $_GET['sujet'];
$categorie = $_GET['categorie'];

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM todo where id='$id'");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
  echo "

<form action=\"modifiage.php\"  name=\"ajout\" id=\"ajout\" method=\"post\">
<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing\"0\" border=\"0\">
<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"id\" value=\"" . $row['id'] . "\"/>
<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"qui\" value=\"" . $row['ajouteur']  . "\"/>
<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"sujet\" value=\"" . $row['sujet'] . "\"/>
<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"categorie\" value=\"" . $row['categorie'] . "\"/>

<tr><td width=\"85px\">Titre : </td><td><input type=\"text\" name=\"titre\" value=\"" . $row['titre'] . "\"/></td>
    <td></td>
    <td>Ajouteur : </td><td align=\"right\"><input type=\"text\" name=\"ajouteur\"  value=\"" . $row['ajouteur'] . "\"/></td>
</tr>
<tr><td width=\"85px\">Sujet : </td><td><input type=\"text\" name=\"sujet\"  value=\"" . $row['sujet'] . "\"/></td>
    <td></td>
    <td>Status : </td><td align=\"right\"><input type=\"text\" name=\"status\"  value=\"" . $row['status'] . "\"/></td>
</tr>
<tr><td width=\"85px\">Cat&eacute;gorie : </td><td><input type=\"text\" name=\"categorie\"  value=\"" . $row['categorie'] . "\"/></td>
    <td></td>
    <td>Niveau : </td><td align=\"right\"><input type=\"text\" name=\"niveau\"  value=\"" . $row['niveau'] . "\"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
";

$tache = $row['tache'];
$tache = str_replace("<div class=\"progress-containers\"><div style=\"width:","*&",$tache);
$tache = str_replace("%\"><br></div></div>","&*",$tache);
$onmouse = '<tr onMouseOver="this.className=**highlight**" onMouseOut="this.className=**normal**"><td>';
$tache = str_replace($onmouse,"<tr><td>",$tache);
echo "
    <td colspan=\"5\">T&acirc;che : 


<a href=\"#\" onClick=\"insertAtCursor(document.ajout.tache, '<tr><td></td>\n<td>*&0&*</td>\n</tr>\n')\">Progress</a> | 
<a href=\"#\" onClick=\"insertAtCursor(document.ajout.tache, '<tr colspan=3>\n<td></td>\n</tr>\n')\">Pleinne</a> | 
<br><textarea name=\"tache\"  id=\"tache\" cols=\"70\" rows=\"20\" wrap=\"off\"  spellcheck=\"false\">" . $tache . "</textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan=\"5\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Modifier\"/></td>

</tr>


</table>
</form>  
";
  }

mysql_close($con);

?>

Hi    I echo out images from a folder. The problem is that I have a html file in the same folder but I don't want to echo that out. How can I write my code to get rid of the html in the output?   Here my code:

<?php 
$filetype = '*.html';
$dirname = substr('$filetype');
$i=0;
if (isset($_POST['submit2']))
{
  //get the dir from POST
  $selected_dir = $_POST['myDirs'];
  //now get the files from within the selected dir and echo them to the screen
  foreach(glob($selected_dir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '*') as $dirname)
  {
    echo substr($dirname, 0, -4);
    echo '<img src="'.$dirname.'" />';
    echo "<label><div class=\"radiobt\"><input type='radio' name='radio1' value='$i'/></div></label>";
  }
}
?>

P.S. when I echo out : substr($dirname, 0, -4); I want to get ride of the html filename there too. How can I do so something like this?

I'm trying to input the results from a query into html, but I'm just getting the variable names rather than their values.  I used single quotes for the echo statement, but I think I must need to switch to double to do that.  But then I have problems with the double quotes from the class names (ex. class="SideBoxTitle"). 

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<?php
// get user's videos from database
$conn = mysqli_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) 
or die("MySQL Error: " . mysql_error());

$query = "SELECT * FROM haas12_test.videos";

$result = mysqli_query($conn, $query)
or die ("Couldn't execute query.");

while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
{
extract($row);

echo ' 
<div id="topBox"  class="mainVideoSideBoxes" >
    
      <div class="SideBoxTitle" ><h3> $vidtitle </h3> </div><!-- close SideBoxTitle -->
        <div class="sideBoxVidContainer"> 
            <div class="SideBoxScreenCast" > $vidurl </div><!-- close SideBoxScreenCast -->
            <div class="SideBoxDesc" ><p> $viddesc </p> </div><!-- close SideBoxDesc -->
        </div><!-- close sideBoxVidContainer -->
    
</div><!-- close mainVideoSideBoxes -->

</div><!-- close mainVideoSideBoxes -->
'; // end echo staement
}

?>

Hi    I want to echo out something when I post the value of a radio button and this value matches the same name of a html file. How can I formulate my code to achieve that?     What I have so far:

 <?php  
 
   if (isset($_POST['submitradio']))
{ 
    $selected_dir = $_POST['radio1'];

  echo substr($selected_dir, 0, -4);
  echo '<img src="'.$selected_dir.'" />';
  
} 
?>

So far I get for example the name of the image(order.gif) and the image order. gif.   What I now want is to formulate my code so that I can say if I have an image called "order.gif" and a file called "order.html" that I can then echo out some thing. I don't want to actually name the image or the html file. I just want to say if I have two different file types that start with the same name then I can echo out what ever. How can I do that?

hi there, the code below is suppose to display something like the attachement "code2" but instead it displays something like attachement "code1" please assist in find what is wrong with my echo lines.

<?php 
                        $counter = 2;
			$sqlq="select * from state WHERE status = 0 ";
			$categorysqlq = mysql_query($sqlq);
			$varq = mysql_num_rows($categorysqlq);

			while($catfetchq = mysql_fetch_array($categorysqlq))
			{
 $cnty =  $catfetchq[0];

		 $sqllq="select * from vehicle WHERE country = '$cnty' ";
			$categorysqllq = mysql_query($sqllq);
		
			
			$numsql = "select * from branchaddr WHERE state = '$cnty' ";
			$numquery = mysql_query($numsql);
$varqa = mysql_num_rows($numquery);
$cntyfetchq= mysql_fetch_array($numquery);	
if($varq != 0){
					if($counter == 2){
                                            	echo "<tr><td><a href=\"transport2.php?id=".$cntyfetchq['state'].">".$catfetchq[1]."(<span style=\"color:red\">".$varqa."</span>)</a></td>";                                                                              
						$counter--;
					}
					else{						
						echo "<td><a href=\"transport2.php?id=".$cntyfetchq['state'].">".$catfetchq[1]."(<span style=\"color:red\">".$varqa."</span>)</a></td></tr>";                                          
						$counter = 2;
					}
				}
			}	
?>

Attached Files  code1.png   12.65KB   0 downloads  code2.png   25.34KB   0 downloads

OK, have no idea what's going on... I've done this a million times... why wont this output!??
I must have a major brain meltdown and dont know it yet!!!

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<?php

// this echoes just fine:
echo $_POST['testfield'];


// but this wont echo:
echo 
if (isset($_POST['testfield']))
{
$_POST['testfield'] = $test;
}
echo $test;


/// or even this DOESNT echo either!:
$_POST['testfield'] = $test;
echo $test;

?>