Making a page from a form..

MrLeN · #1 (**permalink**) 10-02-2005, 08:03 PM

I want to create a form, where if someone enters a keyword, a page is generated.

ie:

Someone enters:

"skateboard"

The form will craete skateboard.php and also, automatically place "skateboard" in the top of that page as a variable:

ie:

$keyword = skateboard

How would I go about doing this with php?

MrLeN

MrLeN · #2 (**permalink**) 10-03-2005, 12:38 AM

ok here is what I have:

Code:

<html>
<body><form action="create.php" method="GET">
Please enter Search Term: <input type="text" name="id" value="">
<input type="submit" />
</form></body>
</html>

Code:

<?php 

// generate.php - creates the page identified in 'id' and creates a page out of it 

if (isset($_GET['id']) && !empty($_GET['id'])) { 

  $pagetemplate = '
  <?php $file = "http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p='.$_GET['id'].'+&mp;ei=UTF-8&mp;fl=0&mp;x=wrt"; ?>
                   <html> 
                   <head> 
                     <title>'.$_GET['id'].'</title> 
                   </head> 
                  
                   <body> 
                     <h1>'.$_GET['id'].'</h1> 
					 <? include("parser.php"); ?>
                   </body> 
                   </html>'; 

  $file = "html/".$_GET['id'].".php"; 
   
  if (!$handle = fopen($file, "a")) { 
    die("Cannot Open File"); 
  } 

  if (!fwrite($handle, $pagetemplate)) { 
      die("Cannot Write to File"); 
  } 

  echo "Your resluts have been generated. Please click here to see them."; 

  fclose($handle); 
} 

?>

and here is what it does:

http://www.mrlen.com/submit.php

Now, I have a new problem. The Yahoo! RSS URL requires that each search term has a + separating the search terms. So far I can't add kore than a singlar search term.

ie:

Hurricane will work
Hurricane Katrina will not work

Can someone help me with this problem?

Also, how can I change it so that after submitting it goes straight to the generated page? I don't want o click to see results.

Also, if I enter the same search term twice, it will add it to the same page twice. How can I fix that?

MrLeN

ADAM Web Design · #3 (**permalink**) 10-03-2005, 02:08 AM

I don't know PHP very well (read: next to nil), but could you not run a replace function to replace spaces with + signs before you processed any of the form input?

Sorry I can't help you much more than to give you a suggestion.

MrLeN · #4 (**permalink**) 10-03-2005, 02:25 AM

Thanks mate.

Actually, that part is all cool.

I fixed it with:

<?php $file = "http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p='.urlencode($_GET['id']).'&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt"; ?>

Now I still have my other two problems.

1 - To redirect after the script has created the pages, because I don't want that middle page where it says click to see results.

2 - If I enter the same search term twice, it will add it to the same page twice.

Oh and there's a third issue: I need to try and limit the search box so that people cannot enter more than two words. Because the RSS doesn't work with any phrases larger than two words.

I am getting there though. Can anyone help me with these things?

MrLeN

MrLeN · #5 (**permalink**) 10-03-2005, 10:06 AM

It's ok everyone. I have completed everything I need. Thanks :)

MrLeN

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