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php in pages
Hi, I’m moving elements of a friend’s site into textpattern for him. In the original he has a sweet bit of code that calls up random images from a website. The code is:
<?
rand(0,1)?$cat='pf':$cat='rw';
$cat=='pf'?$imgno=rand(1,40):$imgno=rand(1,50);
if($imgno<10){$imgno="0".$imgno;}
?>
<a href="http://whom.co.uk/squelch/">
<img style="max-width: 125px; max-height: 125px;"
border="0";
alt="!&#*%($"
src="http://whom.co.uk/squelch/<?="$cat$imgno.jpg"?>"
/>
</a>and works at
http://eohippuslabs.com/dev/ (the image/link shows up in the footer).
When I include it in the page all i get is the alt text; when I include it in a form I get the same thing. I tried using the <txp:php> tag and housing the code in a form but, honestly, I don’t know php; here’s what I ended up with (cringe):
<txp:php>
rand(0,1)?$cat='pf':$cat='rw';
$cat=='pf'?$imgno=rand(1,40):$imgno=rand(1,50);
if($imgno<10){$imgno="0".$imgno;}
</txp:php>
<a href="http://whom.co.uk/squelch/">
<img style="max-width: 125px; max-height: 125px;"
border="0";
alt="!&#*%($"
src="http://whom.co.uk/squelch/<txp:php>="$cat$imgno.jpg"</txp:php"
/>
</a>I’m trying to figure it out on the error page; for example: http://eohippuslabs.com/boo
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much!
All the best,
Allison
(edited to display code properly. -Els)
Last edited by els (2007-11-23 14:28:33)
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#2 2007-11-23 06:13:48
- Mary
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Re: php in pages
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Re: php in pages
thank you! I actually already looked at that – I still don’t understand is if this means that php embedded in html – for example inside an img src tag – would be impossible in textpattern.
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In example this would work – in theory, and it really small theory.
<txp:php>
rand(0,1) ? $cat='pf' : $cat = 'rw';
$cat == 'pf' ? $imgno = rand(1,40) : $imgno = rand(1,50);
if($imgno<10){
$imgno='0'.$imgno;
}
echo '<a href="http://whom.co.uk/squelch/">';
echo '<img style="max-width: 125px; max-height: 125px;" border="0" alt="!&#*%($"';
echo 'src="http://whom.co.uk/squelch/'.$cat.$imgno.jpg.'" /></a>';
</txp:php>But if it only produces random image, why not using a plugin? That would be much more easier to control and master.
Cheers!
Last edited by Gocom (2007-11-23 09:10:54)
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accarter wrote:
he has a sweet bit of code that calls up random images from a website… When I include it in the page all i get is the alt text
Odd. Maybe it’s an issue with not being allowed to hotlink?
Gocom wrote:
But if it only produces random image, why not using a plugin?
Good idea! But only if the images can be stored locally within TXP (which is preferable) instead of hotlinked. Hmm, let me see… how about… erm… ooh smd_random_banner :-)
Last edited by Bloke (2007-11-23 09:30:54)
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Thank you!!
The images aren’t local and can’t be for some conceptual reason I’m not privy to, so no plugin for me.
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#7 2007-12-14 01:06:18
- drichert
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Re: php in pages
Hello. I’m the guy. Here’s what I ended up changing it to (similar to Gocom’s suggestion) to make it work with textpattern (and make it a bit more readable). Looks like textpattern doesn’t support <?=$val?> style PHP tags.
<txp:php>
if(rand(0,1)){
$cat = 'pf';
}else{
$cat = 'rw';
}
if($cat=='pf'){
$imgno = rand(1,40);
}else{
$imgno = rand(1,50);
}
if($imgno < 10){
$imgno= "0" . $imgno;
}
echo '<a href="http://whom.co.uk/squelch/">' . "\n";
echo '<img style="max-width: 125px; max-height: 125px;" border="0"' . "\n";
echo 'src="http://whom.co.uk/squelch/'. $cat . $imgno . '.jpg" />'."\n";
echo '</a>'."\n";
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