Place specific image in html page when specific name is typed.

[sixseven]

Hello,

 

Fairly new to PHP and was curious if someone might know how to solve a fairly simple request.

 

I am currently passing the name of an end user (who types their name in a form field) to a URL which is then passed along and placed into an html page to personalize the page for them to print. Is there a way that I could use PHP to use a specific image for a specific name typed in the field?

 

Example would be:

 

Name typed in field: Bob

Picture used: Baseball

 

OR

 

Name typed in field: Alison:

Picture used: Cat

 

Below is some of the coder snippets I am using.

 

 

 

Here is the code from the form that the end user types in their name:

 

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="name_of_user.php">

 

<label>Gallery Name:<br />

<input type="text" name="name" id="name" />

</label>

<br />

<label>

<input type="submit" name="Submit" id="Submit" value="Submit" />

</label>

</form>

 

Here is the code that receives the post from above file:

<?php

 

$Name = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Name']));

 

// redirect to success page

if ($success){

print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=path to file/comp_pass_exhibitor.php?name=$Name\">";

}

else{

print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=path to file/comp_pass_exhibitor.php?name=$Name\">";

}

?>

 

 

________Below is code from the html page I want personalised_______

 

Here is the bit of code that places the name in the html page:

<p><strong>

<span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><?php echo $_GET['name']; ?></span> <br>

some text that doesn't change</strong> </p>

 

Here is the bit of code for the image on the html page:

 

<td>

<img src=" What would go here " width="140" height="109" align="left">

</td>

 

 

 

Any help would be appreciated

 

[Alt_F4]

if you are using a database to store the users information you could put the path to the image in there and retrieve it when the customised html page is called.

 

or i suppose if you didn't want to use a database you could do this with a file of some sort (possibly xml?)