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Filename panic lol regarding files and extensions

Hi all

Maybe i have been behind the puter for too long, but the script will just now work.

I have a directory with 200 pdf files, and want to put them on my site. I want one page for every pdf file, see the code for the contents of each file.

This is how the output/created html page should look like

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>TITLE OF PDF FILE </title>
<style type=text/css>
body{
width: 800px;
font-family:verdana;
}
.content {
width: 800px;
background-color:#ccc;
border: thin solid #CCC;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<iframe width=90% height=600 src=PDFFILE></iframe>
</center>
</body>
</html>

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The <title></title> tag should contain the name of the pdf file [ without extension ] but some of the names contain _ underscores, and they should be replaced by spaces like:

<title>Some pdf file</title>

Each newly created html page, should be named after the name of the pdf file like:

Some_pdf_file.pdf => Some_pdf_file.html

These should be automatically created by the following code which almost works:

<?php

// html fragment
$string = '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>'.$title_clean.'</title>
<style type=text/css>
body{
width: 800px;
font-family:verdana;
}
.content {
width: 800px;
background-color:#ccc;
border: thin solid #CCC;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<iframe width=90% height=600 src=' .$file. '></iframe>
</center>
</body>
</html>';

// process every pdf file
$nb = 1; 
$files = glob("*.pdf");
foreach ($files as $file) { if (!is_dir($file)){
$nb++;

// extension for newly created webpage
$ext = '.html';

// new name 
 $file_name = $file.$ext;

// capitalize first word
//$title =  ucfirst($file_name); 

//replace underscores with spaces
 $pattern = '/_/';
 $replacement = ' ';
 $title_clean = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $file);




//open or create
if (!$fhandle = fopen('c:\xampp\htdocs\'.$file.$ext', 'w+')) {
         echo "Cannot create file ($file_name)";
         exit;
}

// write contents
if (fwrite($fhandle, $string) === FALSE) {
        echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
        exit;
    }

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Have rewritten it thousands of times and cannot get it to work fully

Ray Paseur

OK, I'll try to help. What is the question?

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PeterdeB

ASKER

@jaydiablo thanks for the help, with the additions of two extra '}' at the end, your solution works great

@raypasseur same to you, only your solution worked right away, and gave some more insight

Therefor I shall split the points to each 250, does that sound reasonable?

PeterdeB

ASKER

The working version courtesy of jaydiablo...

<?php

// process every pdf file
$nb = 1; 
$files = glob("*.pdf");
foreach ($files as $file) { if (!is_dir($file)){
$nb++;

// extension for newly created webpage
$ext = '.html';

// new name 
 $file_name = $file.$ext;

// capitalize first word
$title =  ucfirst($file_name); 

//replace underscores with spaces
 $pattern = '/_/';
 $replacement = ' ';
 $title_clean = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $file);


// html fragment
$string = '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>'.$title_clean.'</title>
<style type=text/css>
body{
width: 800px;
font-family:verdana;
}
.content {
width: 800px;
background-color:#ccc;
border: thin solid #CCC;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<iframe width=90% height=600 src=' .$file. '></iframe>
</center>
</body>
</html>';

//open or create
if (!$fhandle = fopen('c:\xampp\htdocs\'.$file.$ext', 'w+')) {
         echo "Cannot create file ($file_name)";
         exit;
}

// write contents
if (fwrite($fhandle, $string) === FALSE) {
        echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
        exit;
    }
}
}

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JayDiablo

Fine by me, glad we could help. :)

PeterdeB

ASKER

Thanks very much