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bruckerrlb Regular Member

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Hello!

I am writing to get advice, i'm making a cms, and I have a good portion done, I have it set up where the admin can log in and create a new post which goes to the database. I am just wondering how I can make this post a new web page? I have been trying to study how they do it in wordpress but with no avail. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks

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Fadion Newbie

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If i was used to wordpress im sure i could give a better answer. Anyway u mean that when the admin adds data to the database, he also dynamically creates a page like 'newpage.php' which contains the added data? If so u can consider fopen(), which not only opens files but if it doesnt find one, creates it. Then use fwrite() to add the info. Thats what i can think about.

trq Prolific Member

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You setup a single page that queries different data from your database based on the url you pass it. eg;

 

<?php

 // connect to db.
 if (isset($_GET['id'])) {
   $id = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['id']);
   // query based on id from url.
   $sql = "SELECT data FROM tbl WHERE id = '$id' LIMIT 1";
 } else {
   // some default query.
   $sql = "SELECT data FROM tbl ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1";
 }
 if ($result = mysql_query($sql)) {
   if (mysql_num_rows($result)) {
     $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
     echo $row['data']
   } else {
     echo "No record found matching $id";
   }
 }

?>

 

You then simply call page.php?id=12 etc etc...    

Fadion Newbie

Fadion

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The solution of thorpe may be the simple and more efficient way. But if u really need to create a new page u could use smth like this:

 

<?php
$file = fopen('file.php', 'w+');
$str = 
"<html>
<head>
<title>My new page</title>
</head>
<body>
This is where i put data from database
</body>
</html>
";
fwrite($file, $str);
fclose($file);
?>

 

It creates 'file.php', inserts some basic html tags and prints a text. Just my 2 cents.

bruckerrlb Regular Member

bruckerrlb

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Thanks for all of your fast responses!!! I didn't consider the fwrite, thanks for sending me the code to query the user, I have something like that already to update and delete posts, but yours defanitly looks more structured. I will defanitly have to give this a try! Thank you!

bruckerrlb Regular Member

bruckerrlb

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Just wondering but could I do something like this?

 

[color=red]<?php
$file = fopen('file.php', 'w+');
$str = 
"
?>[/color]
[color=green]<?php include('dbconnect.php'); ?>
<?php include('header.php'); ?>
<?php include('body.php'); ?>
<?php 
$selectit = "SELECT * FROM content WHERE id = ($_GET['id'])";
$content = $row["content"];
echo ('$content');
?>[/color]
[color=red]<?php
";
fwrite($file, $str);
fclose($file);
?>
[/color]

 

Right now this is a crazy idea in my head, I will have to try it

bruckerrlb Regular Member

bruckerrlb

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I know I know, i'm new at this, so sometimes my ideas are a little what's the word, wrong, but this is what i've come up with

 

<?php

		include('dbconnect.php');
?>


<?php
if($_GET["cmd"]=="makenewpage")
		{

$id = $_GET['id'];
$sql = "SELECT FROM content WHERE id=$id";
$content = $row['content'];
$pagename = $row['pagename'];
$file = fopen("'$pagename'.php", "w+");
$str = 
"$content
";
fwrite($file, $str);
fclose($file);
?>

Fadion Newbie

Fadion

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Just made a test to include 2 files in the created file and it worked greatly. But as i said u need to use wisely quotes. Ex:

 

str=
"
<body>
include('header.inc.php');
$query = mysql_query(\"SELECT * FROM table WHERE user='$user'\");
</body>
"

 

I escaped double quotes so that php parses those as " and not as string limiters. Guess in this way u wont have problems, but still the idea to write php inside a string is pretty crazy lol.

Fadion Newbie

Fadion

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Your last code revised:

 

<?php
if($_GET["cmd"]=="makenewpage"){

$id = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['id']);
$sql = @mysql_query("SELECT * FROM content WHERE id='$id'") or die(mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_array($sql);
$content = $row['content'];
$pagename = $row['pagename'];
$file = fopen("$pagename.php", "w+");
$str = $content;
fwrite($file, $str);
fclose($file);
?>

Fadion Newbie

Fadion

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I made up a function for easy of use:

 

<?php
function createFile($file, $content, $title){
$handle = fopen($file, 'w+');
$html = "<html><head><title>$title</title></head><body>";
$html .= $content;
$html .= "</body></html>";
fwrite($handle, $html);
fclose($handle);
return true;
}

if(createFile('file.php', 'This is my new page', 'My Page')){
     echo "The file was successfully created";
}
?>

bruckerrlb Regular Member

bruckerrlb

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Thank you very much! i'm testing out this function now, and to answer the question about why I want to do this, I just want to learn, well I need to learn, in case I have a client who wants to be able to post new pages, and well I just like to practice and learn

trq Prolific Member

trq

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in case I have a client who wants to be able to post new pages

 

You will often have clients that want to post new pages, rarely however have I ever actually created new physical pages. CMS's generally generate psuedo pages on the fly, its a much simpler approuch. Store your data in a database, and build the application to format and display it.

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