Styling PHP code?

[guytrance]

Hey Guys.

 

I'm fairly new to PHP so be gentle

 

I have a code on my website that pulls info from a remote xsl file and output it on my header.

 

I need to know how to create CSS rules for that output?

 

<?php

/*
* SCRIPT CONFIGURATIONS
*/
$SERVER = 'http://myserver.com:8000'; //URL TO YOUR ICECAST SERVER
$STATS_FILE = '/status.xsl'; //PATH TO STATUS.XSL PAGE YOU CAN SEE IN YOUR BROWSER (LEAVE BLANK UNLESS DIFFERENT)

///////////////////// END OF CONFIGURATION --- DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

//create a new curl resource
$ch = curl_init();

//set url
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$SERVER.$STATS_FILE);

//return as a string
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);

//$output = our stauts.xsl file
$output = curl_exec($ch);

//close curl resource to free up system resources
curl_close($ch);

//build array to store our radio stats for later use
$radio_info = array();
$radio_info['server'] = $SERVER;
$radio_info['title'] = '';
$radio_info['description'] = '';
$radio_info['content_type'] = '';
$radio_info['mount_start'] = '';
$radio_info['bit_rate'] = '';
$radio_info['listeners'] = '';
$radio_info['most_listeners'] = '';
$radio_info['genre'] = '';
$radio_info['url'] = '';
$radio_info['now_playing'] = array();
   $radio_info['now_playing']['artist'] = '';
   $radio_info['now_playing']['track'] = '';

//loop through $ouput and sort into our different arrays
$temp_array = array();

$search_for = "<td\s[^>]*class=\"streamdata\">(.*)<\/td>";
$search_td = array('<td class="streamdata">','</td>');

if(preg_match_all("/$search_for/siU",$output,$matches)) {
   foreach($matches[0] as $match) {
      $to_push = str_replace($search_td,'',$match);
      $to_push = trim($to_push);
      array_push($temp_array,$to_push);
   }
}

//sort our temp array into our ral array
$radio_info['title'] = $temp_array[0];
$radio_info['description'] = $temp_array[1];
$radio_info['content_type'] = $temp_array[2];
$radio_info['mount_start'] = $temp_array[3];
$radio_info['bit_rate'] = $temp_array[4];
$radio_info['listeners'] = $temp_array[5];
$radio_info['most_listeners'] = $temp_array[6];
$radio_info['genre'] = $temp_array[7];
$radio_info['url'] = $temp_array[8];

$x = explode(" - ",$temp_array[9]);
$radio_info['now_playing']['artist'] = $x[0];
$radio_info['now_playing']['track'] = $x[1];

echo htmlspecialchars($radio_info['now_playing']['artist'] . ' - ' . $radio_info['now_playing']['track']);
echo htmlspecialchars($radio_info['listeners']);


?>

 

Thank you for your help guys

[floridaflatlander]

Just like you'd create for any other html output.

[guytrance]

Yeah i figured but..theres no  html element or anything...

 

the output come from

echo htmlspecialchars($radio_info['now_playing']['artist'] . ' - ' . $radio_info['now_playing']['track']);
echo htmlspecialchars($radio_info['listeners']);

 

i cant seem to find the "name" of that output so i can #name it in css..?

[floridaflatlander]

Yeah i figured but..theres no  html element or anything...

 

what does the echo print/return?

[guytrance]

It returns song title/info/listeners from IceCast server...single line output.

 

Usually that would be easy to style if it was just a <div>, but its a php code and i dont know what to look for.

[floridaflatlander]

Try

 

echo "<p>htmlspecialchars($radio_info['now_playing']['artist'] . ' - ' . $radio_info['now_playing']['track'])</p>";

echo "<p>htmlspecialchars($radio_info['listeners'])</p>";

[guytrance]

Thanx buddy.

 

But i'm getting

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/mystitehere/public_html/mysitehere.com/wp-content/themes/Tersus/header.php on line 247

 

 

 

 

[floridaflatlander]

Yeah, I don't do I like that so you're going to have to play with it.

 

Try

 

echo "<p>".htmlspecialchars($radio_info['now_playing']['artist'] . ' - ' . $radio_info['now_playing']['track'])."</p>";

echo "<p>".htmlspecialchars($radio_info['listeners'])."</p>";

[guytrance]

yup..that worked! 

 

now the last thing i need is that this script will refresh every 20 seconds or so..is that possible?

 

And btw..why do i have "&amp" in every song title the script shows?

 

 

[Christian F.]

That would probably be htmlspecialchars (), and I recommend reading the PHP manual for more information.

 

As for the update every 20 seconds, you'll probably want to look into jQuery and AJAX for that one. You don't need jQuery, but it makes it a whole lot simpler.

[guytrance]

Thanks buddy