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Needing PHP Help

Rindiny

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    Hello, I'm requiring some PHP help on a small project I'm working on. I'm basically writing up a mini-pokedex script for a friend.


    Code: 
    <html>
<head>

<title>MiniDex - <?php echo("$pokemon"); ?></title>
</head>
<body>
<?
$pokemon = "Bulbasaur";
?>
</body>
</html>

    What's my problem? I declared the variable in my PHP script, but strangely it won't show up in my title. How do I fix this?
     

    Rindiny

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    I removed the quotation marks that were in the <title> tag, and it didn't work.
     

    Rindiny

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    Alright, I finally got it to work. Thanks Tyler!

    EDIT: I'm planning to use the ?page= script that Koroku has posted. How can I edit the values of $pokemon to match the variable declared to find the page?
     

    Virtual Headache

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    I don't exactly get what you mean.
    What exactly do you want?

    Do you want ?pokemon=pokemonname to look for the Pokémon page or something?

    Would you mind posting the script here?
    I can't find it anymore...
     

    Rindiny

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    Code: 
    <?
//Declare Main PHP Variables
$news = "main.txt";
$error = "404.txt";
$ext = ".txt";
//Include Variables
if(!isset($_GET['pokemon'])){
include $news;
}
elseif($_GET['page'] == "main") {
include $news;
}
elseif(isset($_GET['pokemon']) && file_exists($_GET['pokemon'].$ext)){
include $_GET['pokemon'].$ext;
}
else{
include $error;
}  
?>

    Example:
    ?pokemon=deoxys

    Title:

    Minidex - Deoxys

    How can I make it so by default the variable $pokemon turns into the page the user is currently on without me having to declare this option all the time?
     

    Rindiny

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    I'm declaring $001 as a variable, and suddenly, it gives me a PHP error about declaring a variable as a number.
     

    Rindiny

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    I'm declaring 001 as a variable because it's a Pokemon. What do you mean number itself? Do you mean "1" instead?
     

    Virtual Headache

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    Yeah.
    If something is dependent from that number, simply use the number.
    If you want Bulbasaur, check whether the number is 1.

    I don't exactly know how your code us gonna look, so I can't say more.
     

    aRedMoon

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    Rindiny said:
    Example:
    ?pokemon=deoxys

    Title:

    Minidex - Deoxys

    How can I make it so by default the variable $pokemon turns into the page the user is currently on without me having to declare this option all the time?
    Click to expand...
    The code isn't right.
    Code: 
    <?
//Declare Main PHP Variables
$news = "main.txt";
$error = "404.txt";
$ext = ".txt";
//Include Variables
if(!isset($_GET['pokemon'])){
include $news;
}
elseif($_GET['pokemon'] == "main") {
include $news;
}
elseif(isset($_GET['pokemon']) && file_exists($_GET['pokemon'].$ext)){
include $_GET['pokemon'].$ext;
}
else{
include $error;
}  
?>
    You forgot one.

    Stick that in index.php and going to index.php?pokemon=bulbasaur will load bulbasaur.txt

    If you want to have it print out the Pokemon, then you can do something like this: (Not the most secure, as I'm too lazy to deal with that right now)
    Code: 
    <?
$pokemon = $_GET['pokemon'];
?>
    Then whenever you want to print the name,
    Code: 
    <? print "$pokemon"; ?>

    So when you go index.php?pokmeon=bulbasaur

    And have $pokemon somewhere in your code, it'll print out "bulbasaur"


    (And really, the best way to do a PokeDex would be to make it MySQL based, and work that way.)
     

    Rindiny

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    I don't know any mySQL. It looks complicated. I don't know how to export data from a mySQL database into PHP code. What I mean is, if I add a piece of data saying something, say "Pikachu". I don't know how to print out the mySQL data the right way using PHP.
     

    aRedMoon

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    I've tried building a text file based PokeDex, and it's not fun at all.

    And there are a lot of tutorials out there~
     

    Rindiny

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    I'm using variables for almost everything I can think of. The Pokedex was supposed to made up entirely of variables. So if I change a thing, it changes in all instead of one.
     

    aRedMoon

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    And what happens when you want to add something?

    With mySQL, it's maybe... 2 minutes? Flatfile... you're talking about editing 400+?
     
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