Pop up windows in PHP

[MarioHussein]

Hi,

 

I have a .txt file with data in the following way:

 

FRENEMY : a person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry :

There seems to be a frenemy relationship between John and Andrew.

PORTMANTEAU : a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms (as smog from smoke and fog) : Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky is loaded with portmanteau words.

 

The following is my PHP:

<?php

//Check your text file exits
  if (file_exists('interesting_words.txt')) {    

//Retrieve content of text file
  $content = file_get_contents('interesting_words.txt', true);
  //Add every line of file to array
  $lines = explode("\n", $content);
 
//Cycle through all line in file
  $words = array();
  foreach ($lines as $line) {

//Split word and description by :
  list($word, $description, $example) = explode(':', $line);
 
//Create a words array to hold word and description
  $words[] = array('word' => ucfirst(trim($word)), 'description' => ucfirst(trim($description)), 'example' => ucfirst(trim($example)));
}
 
//Generate random number from date
 
//Remove to generate random word every page load
  srand(date("ymd"));
 
//Use random number from 0 to the cound of words array to pick word of the day
  $word_of_the_day = $words[rand(0, (count($words) -1))];
 
//Use word, descriptionand example keys to print the results.
  echo '<span id="word">'.$word_of_the_day['word'] . '</span>'.'<br>'.'<br>';
  echo '<span id="description">'.$word_of_the_day['description'].'</span>'.'<br>'.'<br>';
  echo '<span id="example">'.$word_of_the_day['example'].'</span>'.'<br>'.'<br>';
 }
 
?>

I would like to have it displayed in the following way:

 

FRENEMY

a person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry.

 

BUTTON

 

One would click the button to open a new popup window to show example sentences.

 

My problem is how do I go about coding for the window part.

 

All help appreciated.

Many thanks

Edited November 21, 2014 by Ch0cu3r
Added code tags

[cyberRobot]

The pop-up window is actually done on the client side. You could use something like JavaScript to create the pop-up window. Perhaps you could find something in the following Google search:

https://www.google.com/search?q=html%20pop-up%20window

[MarioHussein]

The pop-up window is actually done on the client side. You could use something like JavaScript to create the pop-up window. Perhaps you could find something in the following Google search:

https://www.google.com/search?q=html%20pop-up%20window

I've got the javascript for the popup window. What I would like to do is get the pop up window show only the corresponding example sentence when the button is clicked. I think this is done using ECHO but i am not quite sure how to do it.

[Ch0cu3r]

You will need to pass the word and the example sentence to your script and then echo the sentence.

 

Untested code

echo '<span id="word">'.$word_of_the_day['word'] . '</span>'.'<br>'.'<br>';
echo '<span id="description">'.$word_of_the_day['description'].'</span>'.'<br>'.'<br>';
echo '
  <form method="post" action="example_sentence.php" target="_blank">
    <input type="hidden" name="word" value="'.$word_of_the_day['word'].'" />
    <input type="hidden" name="sentence" value="'.$word_of_the_day['example'].'" />
    <input type="submit" value="See Example" />
  </form>';

Now in example_sentence.php you could do

<?php

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')
{
    echo '<h1>' . $_POST['word'] . '</h1>';
    echo '<p>' . $_POST['sentence'] . '</p>';
}
else
{
    echo 'Invalid request';
} 

Please wrap code in

tags or click the <> button in the editor when posting code.

Edited November 21, 2014 by Ch0cu3r

[MarioHussein]

You will need to pass the word and the example sentence to your script and then echo the sentence.

 

Untested code

echo '<span id="word">'.$word_of_the_day['word'] . '</span>'.'<br>'.'<br>';
echo '<span id="description">'.$word_of_the_day['description'].'</span>'.'<br>'.'<br>';
echo '
  <form method="post" action="example_sentence.php" target="_blank">
    <input type="hidden" name="word" value="'.$word_of_the_day['word'].'" />
    <input type="hidden" name="sentence" value="'.$word_of_the_day['example'].'" />
    <input type="submit" value="See Example" />
  </form>';

Now in example_sentence.php you could do

<?php

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')
{
    echo '<h1>' . $_POST['word'] . '</h1>';
    echo '<p>' . $_POST['sentence'] . '</p>';
}
else
{
    echo 'Invalid request';
} 

Please wrap code in

tags or click the <> button in the editor when posting code.

Thanks a million Ch0cu3r.

 

Works just as I wanted. Now I'll get down to trying to make the form open in a popup window.

 

Many thanks once again.

 

Mario