How To Do This

mahirharoon

Dec 6 2007, 07:43 PM

i don't think i wrote a good topic title
how to do this:
on a page with a text box and a button
when the user writes what page he wants into the
textbox
and clicks the button
it looks for the file and create it with a php extension
and adds it to the page switcher
and case is added by putting the same query
whthout the extension
example
if the code of the page switcher is

CODE

<?php

$variable = $_GET['id'];

switch($variable) {

default: include('home.php'); break;
case "guestbook": include('guestbook.php'); break;

}

?>

the user writes forum.php
then the code will become

CODE

<?php

$variable = $_GET['id'];

switch($variable) {

default: include('home.php'); break;
case "guestbook": include('guestbook.php'); break;
case "forum": include('forum.php'); break;

}

?>

sonesay

Dec 6 2007, 08:36 PM

Im sorry but your not very clear please rewrite it so we can understand better what you are trying to do exactly. I got the part about you wanting to have an input text box and button for submitting.

QUOTE

it looks for the file and create it with a php extension

I dont know what you want to do here exactly. Create a whole new php file? or just add the entry to your case switch.

shadowx

Dec 6 2007, 10:06 PM

Well to create the php file is easy enough, just google the
FREAD, FOPEN and FWRITE functions and that will tell you how to search for and create a file

As for editing that php file... well the best way to do it would be to use FREAD to read the contents of the page switcher into a variable, and then search that variable fr the end of the switch function EG:

CODE

switch($variable) {

default: include('home.php'); break;
case "guestbook": include('guestbook.php'); break;
case "forum": include('forum.php'[color="#FF0000"][i][u][b]); break;

}[/b][/u][/i][/color]

So your search critera would be "); break;}" you can use "in_str" or a similar string search function to search that new variable for this criteria, this would give you the cursor position of the last bracket "}" in that switch function. From there you could go back a space then add a newline to the file and enter the new line EG "case "profile": include('profile.php'); break;"

its a bit confusing i know but it does make sense to me

mahirharoon

Dec 7 2007, 11:10 AM

QUOTE(sonesay @ Dec 7 2007, 12:06 AM)

Im sorry but your not very clear please rewrite it so we can understand better what you are trying to do exactly. I got the part about you wanting to have an input text box and button for submitting.
I dont know what you want to do here exactly. Create a whole new php file? or just add the entry to your case switch.

it looks for the php file and will create it if it is not in the directory specified
and adds the entry to case switch

gogoily

Dec 11 2007, 05:40 AM

You should use function "file_exists('filepath')" if you wanna check whether the PHP file created or not

mahirharoon

Dec 15 2007, 05:17 PM

i wrote the code for writing into the switch

CODE

<?php
$filename = 'index.php';
if (is_writable($filename)) {
    echo 'The file is writable';
} else {
    echo 'The file is not writable';
}

if (is_writable($filename)) {
$filename = 'index.php';
$somecontent = "the code.....";

// Let's make sure the file exists and is writable first.
if (is_writable($filename)) {

    if (!$handle = fopen($filename, 'a')) {
         echo "Cannot open file ($filename)";
         exit;
    }

    // Write $somecontent to our opened file.
    if (fwrite($handle, $somecontent) === FALSE) {
        echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
        exit;
    }

    echo "\n Success, wrote ($somecontent) to file ($filename)";

    fclose($handle);

} else {
    echo "\n The file $filename is not writable";
};
   }
?>

mahirharoon

Dec 15 2007, 05:21 PM

sorry for double post
i also wrote the code for opening it and creating it if not extisting

CODE

<?php
$handle = fopen("index.php", "a+");
?>

EDIT:the main problem is it will be inserted after define tag (<?php?>)

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