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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 04/29/07 16:00
Jon Slaughter wrote:
> Well, I thought I was clear enough. I think what happens is because I use a
> simple example that many here think there must be a simple solution. I give
> a simple example only to express the problem as concisely as I can instead
> of cluttering it up with things that are irrelevant and, I would assume,
> only cause more confusion. Its like a math problem, If there is something
> I'm trying to solve but the equation is very complicated and I can reduce
> the issue down to a similar but much more simple problem then thats what I
> would do. I believe my original explination was simple and explained the
> problem but I could be wrong. I have gotten a solution from Janwillem which
> probalby will work(haven't tried it yet due to other issues).
>
> If it was simple as using include then I would have done it. Peopl elike
> Toby and Geoff have a very simplistic view of things and there problem is
> that their ego always ends up showing up.
>
> In any case, again, I have a file that is essentially html code in it. It
> has a php extension as all my files do. That is not the issue.
>
> The issue is that I have this file, call it MyFile.php and I want to parse
> it to modify some html code or generate some html code based on some
> context. If I just use include then I have no way of looking at the file?
>
> If I do
>
> include 'MyFile.php'
>
> Then how am I going to modify what I need to modify? Theres no way to get at
> the contents of the file that is loaded do do anything.
>
> For example, what if MyFile.php is
>
> <body>
> Hello
> <div class="table"></div>
> <?php
> echo 'hello';
> ?>
> </body>
>
> REMEMBER THIS IS JUST A SIMPLIFIED EXAMPLE. Obviously if this was what I was
> really trying to do there would be no need to parse it as I could approach
> it differently. (so don't tell me I need to approach it differently because
> its actually more complicated and maybe I did things backwards but its too
> late at this point)
>
> In any case, now I have a file called AddTable.php that essentially takes
> this file and parses it for <div class="table"> and inserts a table inside
> that div.
>
> if I simply do
>
> include 'MyFile.php'
>
> then how can I parse it?
>
> if I do
>
> $file = file_get_contents('MyFile.php');
>
> Then I can easily parse the string $file and modify it to add the table.
>
> so after that I now have $file that looks something like
> <body>
> Hello
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td>Blah
> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
>
> <?php
> echo 'hello';
> ?>
> </body>
>
> and when I want to send it to the client,
>
> echo $file;
>
> it will not interpret the php code and just send it as text to them (so they
> get exactly what is above in $file instead of
>
> <body>
> Hello
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td>Blah
> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> hello
> </body>
>
>
> So I need a way to get $file to interpret the php code before I send it.
> Janwillem has said eval will do it and from looking in the manual it seems
> like it will work. There is also another solution I mentioned in the
> original post that looks like it will work. I might have been able to design
> the site differently and been able to avoid this issue but I didn't and I'm
> not about to start over at this point just because some jack ass(not you)
> gets to confused and doesn't understand the problem.
>
> In any case I hope to try eval soon as I think it will be the easiest
> solution and do exactly what I need.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
>
Jon,
Maybe if you would have explained it this way in the start you would
have gotten better answers. This is NOT the problem you started with!
As it is, I can think of a couple of ways to do it. But after seeing
the way you treat people trying to help you, I'm not inclined to post them.
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