i got this code online but i am totally lost of what to do with it , am i to jus place it in one php file or what . please help. It has comments but i am still lost or if anyone has a simplier of helping.
What i plan to achieve is that i have started a movie website , so i want to add movies using to the dtabase while also creating a the movie template automatically with the data i paced in form. So it would look something like this
Name of movie:Fast Car
Webpage Title:
Links:
Description:
Image:
HERE IS THE CODE I GOT BUT NEED LITTLE HELP FIGURING IT OUT?
<?php
//Template for basic page
$template = <<<EOD
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title><!--TITLE--></title>
</head>
<body>
<!--COMMENT-->
</body>
</html>
EOD;
//handle the posted form
if(isset($_POST['title'])&&isset($_POST['comment'])){
//replace the areas of the template with the posted values
$page = str_replace('<!--TITLE-->',htmlentities($_POST['title']),$template);
$page = str_replace('<!--COMMENT-->',htmlentities($_POST['comment']),$page);
//create a name for the new page
$pagename = md5($_POST['title']).'.html';
//db connect & select
$db=mysql_connect('localhost','user','pass');
mysql_select_db('yourdb');
//check if page already exists
$result = mysql_query('SELECT pagename from yourtable WHERE url="'.mysql_real_escape_string($pagename).'"');
if(mysql_num_rows($result)>=1){
$notice = '<p>Page already created <b>./pages/'.$pagename.'</b></p>';
}else{
//inset new page into db
mysql_query('INSERT into yourtable (`id`,`title`,`comment`,`url`)VALUES("",
"'.mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities($_POST['title'])).'",
"'.mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities($_POST['comment'])).'",
"'.$pagename.'")');
//put the created content to file
file_put_contents('./pages/'.$pagename,$page);
//make a notice to show the user
$notice = '<p>New Page created <b>./pages/'.$pagename.'</b></p>';
}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Make page example</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
//if the notice is set then display it
if(isset($notice)){echo $notice;} ?>
<form method="POST" action="">
<p>Title:<input type="text" name="title" size="31"></p>
<p>Comment:</p>
<p><textarea rows="5" name="comment" cols="21"></textarea></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit"></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
