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How to add dynamic PHP content to static CSS layout example?

There are some nice layout examples in Chapter 8 in this bok - Web Designers Reference
http://www.friendsofed.com/download.html?isbn=1590594304

So, if some of the data comes from a database via php, what would the code look like?

Please provide some simple, conceptual snippets!

(In a non MVC style, I'll do that later ;-)

MMDeveloper

would all depend on where the data is processed, what the structure of the data looks like etc...

Here is how you would populate a select list assuming the database info has arleady been retrieved and processed into a single-dimension array

<select name="state" id="state">
	<?php
		foreach ($states as $k => $v) {
			echo '<option value="' . $v . '">' . $v . '</option>';
		}
	?>
</select>

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davidsperling

ASKER

I know PHP/Mysql already :-) I have a working frame based site that looks like s-t. Now I want to remake it with a nice, proffesional CSS based layout!
(ie Chapter 8\08_p223_css_switchers in http://www.friendsofed.com/download.html?isbn=1590594304 )
I mean, how can I do without frames...?
How do you poulate a DIV from a php file or function for example?
Of course I have my own ideas, but I want to know how others do it :-)
( Sometime soon I'll rebuild the site according to Practical Web 2.0 Applications With PHP. OOP,MVC etc... But I'll have to release a site before that...)

davidsperling

ASKER

>Please provide some simple, conceptual snippets!
Or better yet, a site that explains the integration process!

scrathcyboy

If you know PHP, you know that it can send any HTML to a web browser that you want -- even an entire HTML page can be written totally in PHP -- so sending code to a DIV is as simple as that below --

In other words, construct an HTML page as you want it to look, change the extension to .PHP, and use the
<?php php conditional tests here ?> (i.e. the angle bracket ? to delimit the PHP sections)
to allow for variable content, as MMDeveloper showed above.

Once you realize that a PHP file and an HTML file are essentially the same, it becomes incredibly simple.

echo "<DIV id='" . $key . "'>\n   <TR>\n";
echo "<TD width='60' bgcolor='f8f8f8' class='text' id='key1" . $key . "'>"

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scrathcyboy

www.tizag.com/phpT/examples/formex.php/
ww.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2001/05/03/php_foundations.html
mgiseverything.co.uk/2008/06/06/php-html-templates/
www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/PHP-HOWTO.html
video.about.com/php/Using-PHP-With-HTML.htm

some links that I hope are not too simplistic for you.

davidsperling

ASKER

Well I think I've found an acceptable solution... What about that?

//index.php
 
<!-- DDTs here -->
 
<?
 //do some php stuff
 //select $page="mypage.php"
?>
 
 
<html>
<!-- header -->
...
 <div id="content">
   <? require($page); ?>
 </div>
 
...
<!--footer-->
</html>

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