how to use php

ab.chess · Dec 3, 2022

I was trying to search for "php" and it does not work because the keyword is too short(?).
Anyway, I am new to x10 and I am trying to run a simple script within html page:
-------------------
<html>
<body>
output from php 
<?php
print "mr Mc Donalds ";
print "Burger! ";
print "I'm Loving It! ";
?>
</body>
</html>
-----------------
Getting a very strange result:
----
output from php
mr Mc Donalds
"; print "Burger!
"; print "I'm Loving It!
"; ?>
---
It looks like the 1st print uses the rest of the code as the text to print.
Is there a manual about using php on x10?

ctyrd · Dec 3, 2022

@ab.chess

Code:

<p><?php print "mr Mc Donalds Burger! I'm Loving It!" ?></p>

ab.chess · Dec 3, 2022

Hmm. This is not the answer that I expect. So each 'print' stmt needs to be within its own php tags? When it should only print the text within quote marks? At least that's how it works with my Ubuntu local php (older version).
Why does php ignore the pairing closing quote mark? Any special settings?

ctyrd · Dec 4, 2022

@ab.chess

Code:

<p>
<?php print
"Mc Donalds <br>
 Burger! <br>
 I'm Loving It!"
 ?>
 </p>

Out put:
Mc Donalds
Burger!
I'm Loving It!

Code:

<p>
<?php echo $geturl; ?><br>
<?php
echo $geturl; // don't forget to define variable for $geturl
print "<br>See the close after the quotation";
print "<br>No close after quotation"
?>
</p>

Out Put:
domain
domain
See the close after the quotation
No close after quotation

ab.chess · Dec 4, 2022

ctyrd said:
@ab.chess

Code:

 <?php print "Mc Donalds Burger! I'm Loving It!" ?> 

Out put:
Mc Donalds
Burger!
I'm Loving It!

Code:

 <?php echo $geturl; ?> <?php echo $geturl; // don't forget to define variable for $geturl print " See the close after the quotation"; print " No close after quotation" ?> 

Out Put:
domain
domain
See the close after the quotation
No close after quotation

Nope.
Here is my code:
<body>

<?php $geturl = "domain"; ?> 
<?php echo $geturl; ?> 
<?php
echo $geturl; // don't forget to define variable for $geturl
print " See the close after the quotation";
print " No close after quotation"
?>

</body>
----------------
the output:

See the close after the quotation"; print "
No close after quotation" ?>
--------
Not only php doesn't recognize the closing quotation mark, but $geturl is empty.
Any suggestions?

ctyrd · Dec 4, 2022

@ab.chess

Show me a live out put to what your seeing. The file your viewing is not a true html/php document. https://www.ctyrd.org/incdoc/chicks

charset set to utf-8

This is the live out put of the code: https://www.ctyrd.org/chicks

You forgot to define the variable for $geturl!
You changed the first ?php code to echo the word domain incorrectly, should have been:

Code:

<?php echo ('domain'); ?><br>

This:

Code:

<?php echo $geturl; ?><br>

echos the variable you forgot to define.
To define a variable ?php code at the top of the document.

Code:

<?php
$geturl = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; // Defines the variable
$geturl = preg_replace('/^www\./' , '' , $geturl); // Removes http/www.
$geturl = ucfirst($geturl); //Returns a string with the first character of string capitalized NULL
$geturl = strtolower($geturl); //Returns string with all ASCII alphabetic characters converted to lowercase
?>

My index.php file: https://ctyrd.org/index.txt

ab.chess · Dec 4, 2022

ctyrd said:
@ab.chess

Show me a live out put to what your seeing. The file your viewing is not a true html/php document. https://www.ctyrd.org/incdoc/chicks

charset set to utf-8

This is the live out put of the code: https://www.ctyrd.org/chicks

You forgot to define the variable for $geturl!
You changed the first ?php code to echo the word domain incorrectly, should have been:

Code:

<?php echo ('domain'); ?> 

This:

Code:

<?php echo $geturl; ?> 

echos the variable you forgot to define.
To define a variable ?php code at the top of the document.

Code:

<?php $geturl = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; // Defines the variable $geturl = preg_replace('/^www\./' , '' , $geturl); // Removes http/www. $geturl = ucfirst($geturl); //Returns a string with the first character of string capitalized NULL $geturl = strtolower($geturl); //Returns string with all ASCII alphabetic characters converted to lowercase ?>

My index.php file: https://ctyrd.org/index.txt

I have no clue what you mean.
"You forgot to define the variable for $geturl!"?
what about <?php $geturl = "domain"; ?> ?
"The file your viewing is not a true html/php document."?
This is the file: https://chesspad.elementfx.com/ping.html
You can see its source there.

spacresx · Dec 4, 2022

ab.chess said:
Is there a manual about using php on x10?

x10 does not provide script support, so you will not find any manuals here.
there are websites that provide php help and tutorials.
a simple google search can show many websites with such help.

ctyrd · Dec 4, 2022

@ab.chess
Your file ping.html should be named "ping.php". php code will not render in a .html or a .txt document. Html markup will render in a .php document.

Code:

<?php $geturl = "domain"; ?><br>

does not define the variable. Read the post again, I showed you how to define the variable. I added it to keep you on your toes.

php is hard to get the hang of, I had to learn php by trial and error. Then the tutorials started to make scene.

ab.chess · Dec 4, 2022

Actually, about 10 years ago I wrote the whole web site using php and I do not recall having issues like these.
Unfortunately your answers do not clear much and create more questions.
So, why
$geturl = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; // Defines the variable
and
$geturl = "domain";
does not?? What's the difference?
I am looking at https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.basics.php and I do not see how my code is different from the examples there.
"php code will not render in a .html"
What about https://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php? Doesn't your statement contradict the manual?
Isn't it how I include php in html?

In fact, your only recommendation:
Your file ping.html should be named "ping.php".
worked.
As soon as I renamed my file, everything started working as I had expected. Nonetheless my questions are still unanswered.

spacresx · Dec 5, 2022

ab.chess said:
Actually, about 10 years ago I wrote the whole web site using php and I do not recall having issues like these.
Unfortunately your answers do not clear much and create more questions.
So, why
$geturl = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; // Defines the variable
and
$geturl = "domain";
does not?? What's the difference?
I am looking at https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.basics.php and I do not see how my code is different from the examples there.
"php code will not render in a .html"
What about https://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php? Doesn't your statement contradict the manual?
Isn't it how I include php in html?

In fact, your only recommendation:
Your file ping.html should be named "ping.php".
worked.
As soon as I renamed my file, everything started working as I had expected. Nonetheless my questions are still unanswered.

you mention the code is like 10 years old.
php support changes a lot. thats why you see different versions to run websites. like php 7.4 or php 8.0 etc
so whats written for php 6.0 will not always work in php 8.0 for example. depending on the code used.
some simple yet small scripts may still work but more complex ones do not.

php files need to have the .php extension to work properly. especially with configuration files.

$geturl = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; // Defines the variable
and
$geturl = "domain";
does not?? What's the difference?

you can see the difference, starting with $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; instead of "domain";

ab.chess · Dec 6, 2022

spacresx said:
you mention the code is like 10 years old.
php support changes a lot. thats why you see different versions to run websites. like php 7.4 or php 8.0 etc
so whats written for php 6.0 will not always work in php 8.0 for example. depending on the code used.
some simple yet small scripts may still work but more complex ones do not.

php files need to have the .php extension to work properly. especially with configuration files.

$geturl = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; // Defines the variable
and
$geturl = "domain";
does not?? What's the difference?

you can see the difference, starting with $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; instead of "domain";

Apparently you ignore the context. My question about the difference was "why the 1st stmt defines the variable and the 2nd is not".
As I can see after changing my code extension, both statements define the variable.

ctyrd · Dec 6, 2022

ab.chess said:
Apparently you ignore the context. My question about the difference was "why the 1st stmt defines the variable and the 2nd is not".
As I can see after changing my code extension, both statements define the variable.

Code:

<?php $geturl = "domain"; ?>

defines the variable to the word "domain".

Code:

<?php $geturl = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; ?>

defines the variable to the host domain name (eg. chesspad.elementfx.com).
What are you starting over?? Your sites going 403. http://chesspad.elementfx.com/

ab.chess · Dec 7, 2022

at the moment i have all my questions cleared. my small program is up and running.
i want to thank everyone who helped me.

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