PHP Forum

**dansgalaxy** · 04-22-2007, 02:21 PM

hi,

im gonna try and make a really basic CMS which i will problly call K.I.S.S CMS (Keep It Simple Stupid, in case you were wondering)

anyway im starting to make like the "install" script which will create a few files which the pages will refer to for infomation.

ill post em and u can try to see whats going wrong...

This is the first installl page, here you enter basic infomation such as webmaster email...

PHP Code:


			
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Dansgalaxy's K.I.S.S CMS - Setup</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="install2.php">
Title: <input type="text" name="title" />
<br />
Admin email: <input type="text" name="adminemail" />
<br />
Webmaster Email: <input type="text" name="webmasteremail" />
<br />
URL of this site: <input type="text" name="coreurl" /> Please make like http://YOURSITE.co.uk Or http://YOURSITE.co.uk/kisscms. DO NOT add a trailing / (ie. http://yoursite.co.uk/kisscms/)
<br />
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Create" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

this info from this form is sent to install2.php

This is install2.php

PHP Code:


			
<html>
<head>
<title>Dansgalaxy's K.I.S.S CMS - Setup 3</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
META Settings!
<br />
<br />
<form method="post" action="install3.php">

Meta info:
<br />
Author: <input type="text" name="metaauthor" />
<br />
Copyright: <input type="text" name="metacopyright" />
<br />
Robots: <select name="metarobots">
<option value="index">Index</option>
<option value="index, follow">Index, Follow</option>
<option value="noindex">Noindex</option>
<option value="noindex, nofollow">Noindex, Mofollow</option>
</select>
<br />
<!-- -->
Description:
<textarea name="metadescription">
</textarea>
<br />
Keywords:
<textarea name="metakeywords">
</textarea>
<br />
</form>
 
</body>
</html>
<?php
$config = "
$title = $_POST['title'];
$adminemail = $_POST['adminemail'];
$webmasteremail = $_POST['webmasteremail'];
$core = $_POST['coreurl'];
";
$config = "config.php";
$fh = fopen($answers, 'w') or die("Can't open file");
$stringData = "$allanswers\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
/* $stringData = "Tracy Tanner\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);*/
fclose($fh);
?>

This script is SUPOSED to save the infomation from install.php as a file called config.php

it also has a form for entering other info for the metas which is sent to install3.php

install 3 will have the same structure as install2.php and will save the meta info as a file called metainfo.php which will be included in all of the websites webpages... anyways

i need the code in install2 in the $config ="" the things $_post need to be processed so it saves as $adminemail = admin@dansgalaxy.co.uk (or whatever is enterd into the admin email field)

at the moment this script(s) save nothing and produce a error when i click send on install.php (Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in M:\Server\xampp\htdocs\kisscms\install2.php on line 51)

Can someone help?

Lol if anyone understands what i just said that is...

Dan

**tripy** · 04-22-2007, 03:22 PM

PHP Code:


			
$config = "
$title = $_POST['title'];
$adminemail = $_POST['adminemail'];
$webmasteremail = $_POST['webmasteremail'];
$core = $_POST['coreurl'];
";

should be written:

PHP Code:


			
$config = "
$title = {$_POST['title']};
$adminemail = {$_POST['adminemail']};
$webmasteremail {= $_POST['webmasteremail']};
$core = {$_POST['coreurl']};
";

The { and } are there for hinting the PHP engine that what's between is PHP code, not part of a string variable.
As a general rule, if you are using an array or object notation in a string, always add those {}, it will save you some time.

**colbyt** · 04-22-2007, 04:12 PM

One other thought. You may want to have an empty config.php that your script writes to instead of letting it create the file. For some reason I am thinking that may give you some problems on some server configurations.

It may work on your local machine, which is a developement envoirment and then not work on a live server.

**dansgalaxy** · 04-22-2007, 04:44 PM

Thanks ill try that,

as long as the dir is writable i dont think it will cause any problem. but if there is i will do that

Dan

**mgraphic** · 04-22-2007, 10:01 PM

Quote:

PHP Code:


			
$config = "
$title = {$_POST['title']};
$adminemail = {$_POST['adminemail']};
$webmasteremail {= $_POST['webmasteremail']};
$core = {$_POST['coreurl']};
";

The { and } are there for hinting the PHP engine that what's between is PHP code, not part of a string variable.
As a general rule, if you are using an array or object notation in a string, always add those {}, it will save you some time.]

The problem is that the vars will try to be interpeted in double quotes, so your best to write the string as:

PHP Code:


			
$config  = '$title =          "' . $_POST['title'] . '";' . "\n";
$config .= '$adminemail =     "' . $_POST['adminemail'] . '";' . "\n";
$config .= '$webmasteremail = "' . $_POST['webmasteremail'] . '";' . "\n";
$config .= '$core =           "' . $_POST['coreurl'] . '";' . "\n";

**dansgalaxy** · 04-23-2007, 08:04 AM

yes i did have alittle problem it was creating the file like = "somin"

but now i have the code as:

PHP Code:


			
\$title = \"{$_POST['sitename']}\";
\$adminname = \"{$_POST['adminname']}\";

\$adminemail = \"{$_POST['adminemail']}\";
\$webmasteremail = \"{$_POST['webmasteremail']}\";
\$core = \"{$_POST['coreurl']}\";

with the \ so that it ignores the $somin bits and just writes them and so for the bits where i want " written, once i get the hang of it its quite easy,
hopefully i gonna make it so that it has like css file creaters and stuff hopefully when its dont i can write it in a way to it just uses a template file for the layout and colours etc are just included or inserted into that...

Dan