PHP - Php Create Image With Dynamic Text - Fonts Question

I am working on an existing system.  It has the GD library (I think). The system is very hard to understand because of how it was built.

Either way, I am trying to add new fonts. I notice each font the other developer uses has a .php, .ttf, .t18 and .afm.
Each one of the font has each one of those files, named the same as the font.  I am going crazy, trying to figure out how to
add more fonts. The client has requested that I add another 5-15 fonts. Pretty much whatever I can get my hands on.  So I was
curious, where can I find these kinds of fonts. Since there is a .php file, I assumed this was located somewhere as a php resource.

I have search all over, but don't know what I am looking for. Or do I have to use any font, and then custom build the php file for that font, based off how that
font works. How would someone learn how the internal workings would work, for a specific font?

I am looking for a dynamic image script that handles word wrapping and possible font resizing.

Basically, I have a dimensions, a font and a company name. So, lets say I am trying to make a 300x300 image for Bob's Boats in verdana. I want a script that not only creates the image, but tries to use up the available space (putting each word on a line, using a large font, horizontally and vertically aligning everything)

Worst case I'll write my own, but the algorithm seems pretty complex. For example, lets say the companies name was: Chocolates in a Basket, it could be:

Chocolates
in a Basket

Or:

Chocolates
in a
Basket

But never:

Chocolates
in
a
Basket

Worst case, I might make it so that it supports 3 lines, but only ever puts the company name on 2 by default, and if the user wants to manually change it, they can. Even that isn't perfect though, because if the dimensions are something like 300x35, you wouldn't want a second line, let alone a 3rd.

I have set this up with a form on another page so that they can generate a runescape stat signature, although there is something wrong, if they do not select a font it comes up with an error.

Here is the Code:
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<?php

header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate"); 
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false); 
header("Pragma: no-cache");
$user = "";
$img = ""; 
$fnt = ""; 

if(isset($_GET['user']))
{
if(!empty($_GET['user']))
{
$user = $_GET['user'];
}
}

if(isset($_GET['img']))
{
if(!empty($_GET['img']))
{
$img = $_GET['img'];
}
else{$img='blue';}
}
else{$img='blue';}

if(isset($_GET['fnt']))
{
if(!empty($_GET['fnt']))
{
$fnt = $_GET['fnt'];
}
else{$fnt='arial';}
}
else{$img='blue';}

if(isset($_POST['user'],$_POST['img'],$_POST['fnt']))
{
if(!empty($_POST['user']))
{
$user=$_POST['user'];
}
if(!empty($_POST['img']))
{
$img = $_POST['img'];
}
if(!empty($_POST['fnt']))
{
$fnt=$_POST['fnt'];
}
}


//Skill Grabs
$order = array("Overall", 
                        "Attack", 
                        "Defence", 
                        "Strength", 
                        "Hitpoints", 
                        "Ranged", 
                        "Prayer", 
                        "Magic", 
                        "Cooking", 
                        "Woodcutting", 
                        "Fletching", 
                        "Fishing", 
                        "Firemaking", 
                        "Crafting", 
                        "Smithing", 
                        "Mining", 
                        "Herblore", 
                        "Agility", 
                        "Thieving", 
                        "Slayer", 
                        "Farming", 
                        "Runecraft", 
                        "Hunter", 
                        "Construction", 
                        "Summoning",
                        "Dungeoneering"); 

$get = file_get_contents("http://hiscore.runescape.com/index_lite.ws?player=$user");
$get = explode("\n", $get);
$i = 0;

foreach ($order as $key => $value)
{
        $value = strtolower($value);
        $temp = explode(",", $get[$i]);
        $temp = array("rank" => $temp[0], "level" => $temp[1], "exp" => $temp[2]);
        $stats[$value] = $temp;
        $eval = "\$$value = array(\$temp[\"rank\"], \$temp[\"level\"], \$temp[\"exp\"]);";
        eval($eval);
        $i++;
}

//End Skill Grabs


$image = imagecreatefrompng("http://slay2day.x10.mx/highscores/signatures/".$img.".png");
$font = "/fonts/".$fnt.".ttf";

$color = imagecolorallocate($image, 255,255,255);

ImageTTFText ($image, "7", 0, 280, 10, $color, "/fonts/arial.ttf","Slay2day");

ImageTTFText ($image, "12", 0, 240, 55, $color, $font,$user);
if(is_numeric($overall[0]))
{
if($overall[0]==-1)
{
ImageTTFText($image, "11", 0, 230, 105, $color, $font,"2000000+");
}
else
{
ImageTTFText($image, "11", 0, 240, 105, $color, $font,$overall[0]);
}
}
else
{
ImageTTFText($image, "11", 0, 230, 105, $color, $font,"2000000+");
}
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 27, 20, $color, $font,$attack[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 27, 42, $color, $font,$strength[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 27, 64, $color, $font,$defence[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 27, 88, $color, $font,$hitpoints[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 27, 114, $color,$font,$ranged[1]);

ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 70, 20, $color, $font,$prayer[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 70, 42, $color, $font,$magic[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 70, 64, $color, $font,$cooking[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 70, 88, $color, $font,$woodcutting[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 70, 114, $color,$font,$fletching[1]);

ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 117, 20, $color, $font,$fishing[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 117, 42, $color, $font,$firemaking[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 117, 64, $color, $font,$crafting[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 117, 88, $color, $font,$smithing[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 117, 114, $color,$font,$mining[1]);

ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 162, 20, $color, $font,$herblore[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 162, 42, $color, $font,$agility[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 162, 64, $color, $font,$thieving[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 162, 88, $color, $font,$slayer[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 162, 114, $color,$font,$farming[1]);

ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 212, 20, $color, $font,$runecraft[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 212, 42, $color, $font,$construction[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 212, 64, $color, $font,$hunter[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 212, 88, $color, $font,$summoning[1]);
ImageTTFText ($image, "10", 0, 212, 114, $color,$font,$dungeoneering[1]);

header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($image);
imagedestroy($image);

//Logging
$url = getenv("HTTP_REFERER"); 

// connect to the database
 include('connect-db.php');

//variables
date_default_timezone_set('Pacific/Auckland');
$datepickerbox = $_POST['datepickerbox'];
$datepickerbox = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", time($datepickerbox));
echo $datepickerbox;

 // save the data to the database
 mysql_query("INSERT signature SET user='$user', img='$img', time='$datepickerbox', url='$url', font='$fnt'")
 or die(mysql_error()); 
//End Logging

?>
if they do not have a font i get:
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Warning: imagettftext() [function.imagettftext]: Could not find/open font in /home/slay2day/public_html/highscores/signatures/signature.php on line 130
but of they dont choose a font i want it to use arial...

i'm trying to achive this results layout: 

example:
                     catagory
                           comment
                           comment
                           comment
                     catagory
                     catagory
                     catagory
                           comment

what is being pulled now is if their is 2 comments two 1 catagory then 2 catagorys are being returned with the same id. what i want is to return one cataogry with many comments.

thanks in advance for your help.

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<?php require_once('Connections/Del_Comments.php'); ?>
    <?php 
    $all_ids = array();
    $str_ids = "";
     
    // first parent query
    $maxRows_sourceType = 10;
    $pageNum_sourceType = 0;
    if (isset($_GET['pageNum_sourceType'])) {
      $pageNum_sourceType = $_GET['pageNum_sourceType'];
    }
    $startRow_sourceType = $pageNum_sourceType * $maxRows_sourceType;
     
    mysql_select_db($database_Del_Comments, $Del_Comments);
    $query_sourceType = "SELECT a.Id, a.Type, 
a.Dates, 
a.UIdFk, 
b.Id as Did, 
b.comment, 
b.dates as Day, 
b.sfk as Sfk ,
c.sfk as sfk1, 
d.Memo as memo
FROM 
asstatusupdate as a   
left join asstatusdata as b 
on a.id = b.sfk 
left join asmanystatusupdate as c
on b.sfk = c.sfk
left join ascomments as d
on d.id = c.cfk
where a.uidfk='1'
 order by Dates asc";
    $query_limit_sourceType = sprintf("%s LIMIT %d, %d", $query_sourceType, $startRow_sourceType, $maxRows_sourceType);
    $sourceType = mysql_query($query_limit_sourceType, $Del_Comments) or die(mysql_error());
    $row_sourceType = mysql_fetch_assoc($sourceType);
     
    if (isset($_GET['totalRows_sourceType'])) {
      $totalRows_sourceType = $_GET['totalRows_sourceType'];
    } else {
      $all_sourceType = mysql_query($query_sourceType);
      $totalRows_sourceType = mysql_num_rows($all_sourceType);
    }
    $totalPages_sourceType = ceil($totalRows_sourceType/$maxRows_sourceType)-1;
     
    // add the array
    while ($row_source = mysql_fetch_assoc($sourceType)) {
     
        $all_ids[] = $row_source['Sfk'];
     
        $str_ids .= $row_source['Sfk'].',';
     
     }
     
            // remove the array
         $str_ids = (substr($str_ids,-1) == ',') ? substr($str_ids, 0, -1) : $str_ids;
    
echo $str_ids;
    //echo $all_ids;

//second child query
        $maxRows_sourceComments = 10;
    $pageNum_sourceComments = 0;
    if (isset($_GET['pageNum_sourceComments'])) {
      $pageNum_sourceComments = $_GET['pageNum_sourceComments'];
    }
    $startRow_sourceComments = $pageNum_sourceComments * $maxRows_sourceComments;
     
    mysql_select_db($database_Del_Comments, $Del_Comments);
    $query_sourceComments = "SELECT 
c.sfk as sfk1,
d.Memo as memo
FROM 
asmanystatusupdate as c
left join ascomments as d
on d.id = c.cfk
where c.uidfk0='1' and c.sfk in ($str_ids)";
    $query_limit_sourceComments = sprintf("%s LIMIT %d, %d", $query_sourceComments, $startRow_sourceComments, $maxRows_sourceComments);
    $sourceComments = mysql_query($query_limit_sourceComments, $Del_Comments) or die(mysql_error());
    $row_sourceComments = mysql_fetch_assoc($sourceComments);
     
    if (isset($_GET['totalRows_sourceComments'])) {
      $totalRows_sourceComments = $_GET['totalRows_sourceComments'];
    } else {
      $all_sourceComments = mysql_query($query_sourceComments);
      $totalRows_sourceComments = mysql_num_rows($all_sourceComments);
    }
    $totalPages_sourceComments = ceil($totalRows_sourceComments/$maxRows_sourceComments)-1;
     
     
     
    $resultComments = @mysql_query($query_sourceComments, $Del_Comments);
    $numComments = @mysql_num_rows($resultComments);
     
     
    $result = @mysql_query($query_sourceType, $Del_Comments);
     
    $num = @mysql_num_rows($result);
     
    // column count for parent
        $thumbcols = 1;
     
            // column count for parent query
        $thumbrows = 1+ round($num / $thumbcols);
     
                // column count for child query    $thumbrowsComments = 1+ round($numComments/$thumbcols);
     
                // header
                print '<br />';
                print '<table align="center" width="500" border="3" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">';
     
                if (!empty($num)) {
                    print '<tr><td colspan="3" align="center"><strong>Returned Num of Record Sets: ' .$num. ' and comments count' .$numComments. '</strong></td></tr>';    
     
                }
     
        // table layout for parent query        

function display_table() {
     
    // global variables
    global $num, $result, $thumbrows, $thumbcols, $resultComments, $numComments, $thumbrowsComments ;
     
    // row count for parent
     for ($r=1; $r<=$thumbrows; $r++) {
     
         // print table row
             print '<tr>';
     
    //format the columns
    for ($c=1; $c<=$thumbcols; $c++) {
     
    print '<td align="center" valign="top">';
     
        $row = @mysql_fetch_array($result);
$row1 = @mysql_fetch_array($resultComments);
     
        $Id = $row['Id'];
        $Type = $row['Type'];
        $Dates = $row['Dates'];
$Comment = $row['Comment'];
$Sfk1 = $row['sfk1'];
$Memo = $row['memo'];


    // test if not empty show record sets            
        if (!empty($Id)) {
     
                                // print output from parent query
     
                       
                                        // grab type dates comment and format for there column
     
                                        echo '<td valign="top" align="center">'; 
                                        echo "$Type"; echo '&nbsp;&nbsp;'; echo "$Dates"; echo '<br />';echo '<br />';echo '<br />';
                                        echo "$Comment"; echo '</td>';
                                        echo '<td>'; echo "$Id"; echo '</td>';
                                        echo '<td>'; echo "$str_ids"; echo '</td>';

                             echo '<tr>';
echo '<td>'; echo "$Sfk1"; echo '</td>';
echo '<td>'; echo "$Memo"; echo '</td>';
echo '</tr>';

} // closing the $id loop
     


                                                    else {
                                                            print '&nbsp;&nbsp;';
                                                        }
                                print '</td>'; //closing the table data
                            } //closing the rows
                                print '</tr>';
                 } // closing the outter loop
                //} //closing fk id loop
                                print '</td>'; //closing the table data
                    } //closing the rows
                                print '</tr>';    
              
        //} // closing the main loop
     
                    // call the main table
                display_table() ;
                    print '</table>';
     
     
    ?>
     
     
     <?php
var_dump(substr('a', 1)); // bool(false)
?>

I've searched and found numerous examples for creating dynamic forms using PHP and MySQL; however, each seems to be different and I have been unsuccessful with all of them. What I get is an empty pulldown menu instead of the contents from the MySQL table. I've worked this till I'm blue in the face and am now turning to the forums for help.  I'm developing/testing code in NetBeans 8.0.2. Here is my code (name of file is 'domains.php':

<body>
<form method="post" action="">
<select id="domain" name="domain">

<?php

// define connection variables
$DBServer = "localhost"; // server name or IP address
$DBUser = "xxxxxxxxx";
$DBPass = "xxxxxxxxx";
$DBName = "country";
$DBPort = "3306";        // I include the port because I have two instances of MySQL - the other is 3309

// create a connection to mysql
$conn = mysqli_connect ($DBServer, $DBUser, $DBPass, $DBName, $DBPort);

// check to see if a connection was made and, if yes, proceed
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) { // connection failed
     echo "Database connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}

// the domain query to get all domain names
$domainQuery = "select domains from domains_subdomains_cop";

// run the query -- this works elsewhere to display the contents of a table
$resultD = mysqli_query($conn, $domainQuery) or die ("Query to get data from domain failed: " . mysql_error());

// with the exception of a pulldown menu, the while loop works well to display all records, etc.
// I've seen examples with MYSQLI_ASSOC and without and I've tried both without success - I use it because I // haven't had any issues elsewhere in my program
while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($resultD, MYSQLI_ASSOC)) {
     $domainName=$row[DOMAINS]; // DOMAINS is the table attribute I'm trying to pull
     echo "<option>
          $domainName  // I accidentely put a ';' here once and that did show up in the pulldown menu
     </option>";
}

?>

</select>
</form>
</body>

In advance, thank you for any help/insight you can provide!!!

Nick.

I have a form that inserts information into a mysql, the only prolem is I need to add different surrounding html to the information when entering it into the database depending what the value is...(essentially I want to store font color around different levels)

How would I define the same variable with different information depending on the value?

The information is called using:

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {
$editLEVEL=$_POST['level'];


I want it so if 'Level1' is the posted value then $editLEVEL would be '<color=1>$editLEVEL</color>'
but if 'Level2' is the posted value the $editLEVEL would be '<color=2>$editLEVEL</color>'

If you dont understand just let me know I'll try explain best I can.

Hi guyz,

I am looking to create a dymanic comment box for my website where already logged in users can comment on webpages.

It is quite a challenge getting to dynamically display only the comments a particular user posted on a web page.

What I mean is I would like to be able to click on a page, see only the comments logged users posted on that page, and then post my own comment on that page. At the moment I created a comment box for my webpages but the issue is my posted comments on one particular page is displaying on all web pages with is comment system..This is the problem and it is very difficult to find helpful material hopefully you guyz can come to the rescue.

Please guys any help or suggestions are more than welcome.

Thanks

Kdiamonds

Hi all, here's my code:

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<?php
foreach ($_SESSION['topping'] as $value) {
    echo "<tr><td width='30%'>Topping</td><td width='50%'>$value</td><td width='20%'><select name='notopping'>";
foreach ($_SESSION['cupcake'] as $number) { '<option name="notoppings[]" value="'.$number.'">".$number."</option>'; }
echo "</select></td></tr>";
}
?>

$_SESSION['cupcake'] is a value from either 6, 12, 24 or 36.  What I want to do is put them into a drop down box (second foreach) as the value and the displayed value - counting up from 1 (so 1,2,3,4,5,6 or up to 12,24 etc).

Also by creating this as an array, does this mean than for each topping (say Vanilla and Chocolate) the value dynamically created can be used on the next page by using $_POST['notoppings'] to display each type (two different numbers - one for Vanilla and one for Chocolate).  Does that make sense?

Thanks!

Jason

Hi guys.. 1st post here.  I'm pretty new to php.. just a few weeks in.  I've gotten pretty decent at making mysql connections and extracting data, but now I'm wanting to take one of my urls that I echo to my page and create a new page.  Hoping someone can help...  Here's the pictu

MY MySQL Setup:
I have 1 table called table1. It has 2 columns which a 'Title' & 'Description'

My Index.php Page:
I connect to mysql. I pull the 'Title' from MySQL and loop it to produce 100 rows of data that fill my index page, as expected.

My Problem:
I now want to be able to click one of those rows and dynamically create a new page (description.php) that includes the 'Title' & 'Description'.

My Progress:
I've managed to click a row and create a hyperlink to mysite.com/$title (where 'title' is pulling the 'title' from the mysql db) but I all I get is page not found.

My Question:
How do I tell description.php to pull the 'Title' and 'Description' and link to it from index.php?

My Gratitude:
Thanks in advance!

I got a question  regarding a news website content that i want to make ! my question is how do i   call my contents without using a lot of page?   i explain   let's say i got 10 news how do i put this 10 news in different pages without using 10 pages ? ex: you can see some links having a number like this http://bbc.uk/news/murder_case-12 then the next page got http://bbc.uk/news/finance-13 the title and the number id change but the page news doesnt change    thanks for your answer.

Hi All,

i am trying to Generate a image dynamically.
Up to here i am able to do it .
But when i give any echo statement with this its not working..
Here is my code pls help me in this

<?php
// Create a 55x30 image
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(79, 79);
$unknow = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 255, 255);
$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);

// Draw a white rectangle
imagefilledrectangle($im, 4, 4, 75, 25, $unknow);
imagefilledrectangle($im, 4, 29, 75, 50, $unknow);
imagefilledrectangle($im, 4, 54, 75, 75, $unknow);

// Save the image

echo 'hi hello';
header("Content-type: image/png");
//imagepng($im, './imagefilledrectangle.png');
imagepng($im);

imagedestroy($im);
?>


Thanks in advance.

I am a newbie to PHP and don't know the lingo.  As you can imagine it's quite hard to find advice through a search engine when you don't know the terms you should be searching for!  So I'm hoping I can get some advice or leads here...

I have a website using a zenphoto photo gallery.  I've adapted the CSS/PHP though trial and error to suit my own needs, but now I am thinking of changing the set up of the web page.

I've got 10 galleries in 5 "categories", like this:
category1-s
category1-w
category2-s
category2-w
category3-s
category3-w
and so on...  each category has 2 related options...

What I already have is an index for all these categories, where a user can click on the link that says "Category1-S" and it leads to something like this ...zenphoto/index.php?album=category1-s

That works fine, but what i WANT to have is a dynamic link on THAT page that will link to the related page.  So on zenphoto/index.php?album=category1-s there would be a link that references the gallery "category1-s" truncates the "s" and adds "w" in its place, so the actual link would be "zenphoto/index.php?album=category1-w"

On the page for category2-s that link would read "zenphoto/index.php?album=category2-w" and on the page category3-s the link would read "zenphoto/index.php?album=category3-w"

The link would be dynamic and would reference the actual URL of the page in order to create the link.  I feel that this must be possible, but I don't know what it would be called, so my searches haven't found anything...

Any help anyone can give would be very appreciated!
thanks,
J

I wrote this basic script yesterday to process and generate a Google Site Map. And it works! BUT I want to advance this script to accommodate for something else and I don't know the correct path to take from here, but I will tell you what I've found out so far..

Current Situation:

1 - Currently my below script generates urls in the site map like:
http://abcdefg.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=29826

2 - I have .htaccess configured to rewrite the urls to the products name data like:
http://abcdefg.com/pennies/wheat-pennies/lincoln-wheat-penny-cent.html (just an example) and these urls are ONLY active if clicking on the site links themselves - meaning if I enter: http://abcdefg.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=29826 directly into the url, the url does not resolve to this natural friendly url name.

What Id like to achieve (which I don't know what direction I should be looking!):

- I'd like my xml output urls (as current) to be written in the natural format (as in #2 above).

FYI here is a current example output item in my sitemap:

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<url>
  <loc>http://abcdefg.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&amp;product_id=29803</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
  <lastmod>2010-09-24T08:00:00+04:00</lastmod>
 </url>
Can anyone give me some guidance on what method might work for this? Do you think it's more a mod_rewrite issue? Or can this be handled easier with straight up modifications to my below? I'm just a bit confused on what direction I should be looking.. Thanks for any input.

<?php
header("Content-Type: text/xml;charset=iso-8859-1");
  echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">';
 //include('config.local.php');
  $cxn = mysqli_connect($config['db_host'], $config['db_user'], $config['db_password'], $config['db_name']);
  $query = "SELECT cscart_product_descriptions.product_id, cscart_products.product_id, cscart_products.timestamp
FROM cscart_product_descriptions JOIN cscart_products ON cscart_product_descriptions.product_id = cscart_products.product_id
WHERE cscart_products.status='A' LIMIT 10000";
  $result = mysqli_query($cxn, $query);
  $row = mysqli_fetch_array($result);
  while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
  $formatedTime = $row['timestamp'];
      echo '<url>
  <loc>http://abcdefg.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&amp;product_id=' . $row['product_id'] . '</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
  <lastmod>'. date('c',$formatedTime) .'</lastmod>
  </url>';
  } //while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
  echo '</urlset>';
?>

Hello,

I'm working on a dynamic text form (I guess thats what its called). Basically, I have a html page that echos in some PHP code. What the PHP code does is show different strings of text depending on a variable:

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<PHP?
$brief1_info = "brief info goes here";
$brief1 = 0;

if (isset($_POST['brief1Go'])) {
$brief1 = $brief1 + 1;
}
else if (isset($_POST['brief1Back'])) {
$brief1 = $brief1 - 1;
}


$breif1Controller = "
<form action=\"".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."\" method=\"post\">
<input type=\"submit\" name=\"brief1Back\" id=\"brief1Back\" value=\"BACK\" />
</form>

<form action=\"".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."\" method=\"post\">
<input type=\"submit\" name=\"brief1Go\" id=\"brief1Go\" value=\"CONTINUE\" />
</form>";



if($brief1 == 0){
$brief1_info = "<b>Welcome Commander,</b> you are currently viewing the Mission Control Brief page, here you can view all your missions that you need to complete in order to advance through your prestiges. You will need to follow your briefs carefully in order to succeed. <br /><br />

";
}
else if($brief1 == 1){
$brief1_info = "Okay, let me show you around the place ...";
}
else if($brief1 == 2){
$brief1_info = "brief is on 2";
}


?>
The problem is, the BACK and CONTINUE buttons don't work. If $brief1 equals 0, and the user presses continue, the is should go to 1, and the brief1_info string is changed (so some different text shows in my html). It actually works when brief1 is on '0', but when its on 1 and the user pressed continue, the brief1 is changed to 1, but because the submit button refreshes the page, the variable is re-read again, and thus is reset back to 0.

Is there a way around this? Or is there a better method than what I'm doing?

Thanks