| Author |
PHP Newb In Need |
Little Pet Slinki
Admiral
Joined: April 16, 2006
Posts: 836
From: United Kingdom, South West.
|  Posted: 2007-05-17 14:25
I literally started PHP yesterday and have hit a stumbling block.
$css = "";
$header =
$image_folder = "images/days";
$today = date('l');
if (file_exists($image_folder."/".$today.".gif")) {
echo " ";
}
else {
echo "No image was found for $today";
}
?>
//Site title
$title = "Slinki For Prime Minister";
?>
So far I have that but it just comes up with "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '?' in /home/jack2k4/public_html/dsftp/Slinki/config.php on line 8"
What I wanted was it to do a different picture every day of the week in the header area.. But Its not Biting. Any Help?
_________________
|
Drafell
Grand Admiral
Mythica
Joined: May 30, 2003
Posts: 2449
From: United Kingdom
| Posted: 2007-05-17 14:35
$css = "";
//Set up function for header
function imageHeader()
{
$image_folder = "images/days";
$today = date('l');
if (file_exists($image_folder."/".$today.".gif")) {
echo "";
}
else {
echo "No image was found for $today";
}
}
$header = imageHeader();
//Site title
$title = "Slinki For Prime Minister";
?>
[ This Message was edited by: Drafell on 2007-05-17 14:43 ]
_________________
It's gone now, no longer here...Yet still I see, and still I fear.rnrn
rnrn
DarkSpace Developer - Retired
|
Little Pet Slinki
Admiral
Joined: April 16, 2006
Posts: 836
From: United Kingdom, South West.
| Posted: 2007-05-17 14:40
I can't connect to DS :l
ANYWAYS...
$header = "";
That was the original Header line.. but I didn't want the one banner i wanted it different days of the week as i tried to set out in teh above post.
_________________
|
Drafell
Grand Admiral
Mythica
Joined: May 30, 2003
Posts: 2449
From: United Kingdom
| Posted: 2007-05-17 14:45
I see what you are doing now, see above post again...
_________________
It's gone now, no longer here...Yet still I see, and still I fear.rnrn
rnrn
DarkSpace Developer - Retired
|
Little Pet Slinki
Admiral
Joined: April 16, 2006
Posts: 836
From: United Kingdom, South West.
| Posted: 2007-05-17 14:47
Done that,
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/jack2k4/public_html/dsftp/Slinki/config.php on line 12
But I got that :l
[ This Message was edited by: Little Pet of the Slinki Nebula on 2007-05-17 14:48 ]
_________________
|
Drafell
Grand Admiral
Mythica
Joined: May 30, 2003
Posts: 2449
From: United Kingdom
| Posted: 2007-05-17 14:49
Oh yes, you have some errant ""'s in each other, that screws things up merrily..
$css = "";
//Set up function for header
function imageHeader()
{
$image_folder = "images/days";
$today = date('l');
if (file_exists($image_folder. "/" .$today. ".gif")) {
echo " "; // Correct version, I hope. I am a bit rusty.
}
else {
echo "No image was found for $today";
}
}
$header = imageHeader();
//Site title
$title = "Slinki For Prime Minister";
?>
[ This Message was edited by: Drafell on 2007-05-17 14:54 ]
_________________
It's gone now, no longer here...Yet still I see, and still I fear.rnrn
rnrn
DarkSpace Developer - Retired
|
Little Pet Slinki
Admiral
Joined: April 16, 2006
Posts: 836
From: United Kingdom, South West.
| Posted: 2007-05-17 14:50
Meaning I totally Cocked It Up?
_________________
|
Little Pet Slinki
Admiral
Joined: April 16, 2006
Posts: 836
From: United Kingdom, South West.
| Posted: 2007-05-17 15:14
Fixed.. Ill update with more tails of my php misfortune later 
_________________
|
BackSlash
Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2007-05-17 16:14
function imageHeader() {
$image_folder = "images/days";
$today = date('l');
$header_url = $image_folder. "/" .$today. ".gif";
if (file_exists($header_url)) {
echo " ";
} else {
echo "No image was found for $today";
}
}
Glad to see you're learning from the template I gave you 
But you made a few mistakes:
1) You don't need to make "$header=" anything.
2) You don't need to enter
All you need to do to make the header display is type "imageHeader()" instead of echo $header. Or, if you want, you could make "$header = imageHeader()". I'm not sure if PHP likes having variables equal non-existant functions, so make sure the "$header = imageHeader()" is put after the function.
So it should look like this:
//Set CSS file
$css = "";
//Set imageHeader function
function imageHeader() {
$image_folder = "images/days";
$today = date('l');
$header_url = $image_folder. "/" .$today. ".gif";
if (file_exists($header_url)) {
echo "";
} else {
echo "No image was found for $today";
}
}
//Set header
$header = "imageHeader();";
//Site title
$title = "Slinki For Prime Minister";
?>
That should work just fine. You might need to go through every page later on and replace "echo $header;" with just "$header". But you've only got 4 from whatI can see, so that shouldn't be too hard. You could also just skip the whole $header = "imageHeader();"; mlarky in the config file, and just change "" into "" in all 4 pages. Up to you.
[ This Message was edited by: BackSlash *Jack* on 2007-05-17 16:24 ]
_________________
|
Coeus
Grand Admiral
Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: March 22, 2006
Posts: 2815
From: Philly
| Posted: 2007-05-17 21:36
/me walks into the thread
O.O
...
God speed boy.
/me runs away from the thread...
_________________
Do I really look like a guy with a plan?
'I'm gonna go crazy, and I'm taking you with me!'
ICC Security Council Chief Enforcer
|
English
Deutsch
Nederlands
)
