Code problem

Nuke Cadet Joined: Sep 25, 2006 Posts: 8

Hello all.

Could someone help me with my code please?

After spending many of hours trying to fix my problem I turned to you for help.

I have a block that I can't get to render properly. The block shows up on my page just fine and looks good but I can't get the PHP block frams to wrap around it. The block frames appear right below my working code, but with with the following in the block, " There isn't content right now for this block." I have read all the guides on how to creat a block, but I am having trobles with the $contect code.

Could someone help me with my code please?

Code:

Any help would be greatly apprecated. Thank you inadvance for any help you might have.

Captain Joined: Apr 30, 2004 Posts: 566

OK... I will make a statement here.... You are using a lot of deprecated html code. I removed that code and replaced it with the proper coding. By deprecated I mean that <center> and <font> is no longer used. Also the <img>, <input> and <br> need to be closed by using />.

You will need to change the BLOCKNAMEHERE to the actual name you wish to use.

Try this:

Code:

<?php

/************************************************************************/
/* PHP-NUKE: Web Portal System */
/* =========================== */
/* */
/* Copyright (c) 2002 by Francisco Burzi */
/* http://phpnuke.org */
/* */
/* This program is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify */
/* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by */
/* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License. */
/************************************************************************/

if (eregi("block-BLOCKNAMEHERE.php",$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) {
Header("Location: index.php");
die();
}

$content = "";

$content .="<div align=\"center\">";
$content .="<form method=\"get\" action=\"http://www.thottbot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">";
$content .="<a href=\"http://www.thottbot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">";
$content .="<img src=\"images/thottbot.gif\" alt=\"Thottbot\" border=\"0\" height=\"22\" width=\"75\" alt=\"\" /></a><br />";
$content .="<input name=\"s\" style=\"width: 140px;\" onfocus=\"this.select()\" type=\"text\" />";
$content .="</form>";
$content .="<br />";
$content .="<form method=\"get\" action=\"http://wow.allakhazam.com/search.html\" target=\"_blank\">";
$content .="<a href=\"http://wow.allakhazam.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"images/allakhazam.gif\" alt=\"Allakhazam\" border=\"0\" height=\"22\" width=\"75\" /></a><br />";
$content .="<input name=\"q\" style=\"width: 140px;\" onfocus=\"this.select()\" type=\"text\" />";
$content .="</form>";
$content .="<br />";
$content .="<form method=\"get\" action=\"http://www.wowhead.com/\" target=\"_blank\">";
$content .="<a href=\"http://www.wowhead.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"images/wowhead.gif\" alt=\"Wowhead\" border=\"0\" height=\"22\" width=\"75\" alt=\"\" /></a><br />";
$content .="<input name=\"search\" style=\"width: 140px;\" onfocus=\"this.select()\" type=\"text\" />";
$content .="</form>";
$content .="</div>";

?>

Nuke Cadet Joined: Sep 25, 2006 Posts: 8

WOW,

Thank you very much. I will work on my coding. Would you recommend any sites where I could learn more about they way you just coded that.

Thank you again, it looks great. I didn't even think of that. Your a great coder thank you for your advince.

Captain Joined: Apr 30, 2004 Posts: 566

Here is a quickie lesson for $content and echo.....

Both $content (blocks output code) and echo (module output code) have the same coding properties.

$content = " some code here ";

echo " some code here ";

Please notice the double quotes. These mark the beginning of something to be shown, and the end of showing something. The semi-colon stops things.

Your main problem was that you were not commenting out the double quotes where the --showing code-- would be. For example:

Code:

$content .="<div align=\"center\">";

Please note the backslashes in front of the double quotes. The backslashes allows php to display code past the double quote. Otherwise, php would only display:

Code:

<div align=

This would be a bad error because there was not a semi-colon after the last double quote. This is why the code would jump out of the block so to speak.

As far as the to the compliant html......
http://www.w3schools.com/tags

Nuke Cadet Joined: Sep 25, 2006 Posts: 8

Noted, thank you for your help. I apprecate your help. I am tring to learn PHP and your help is greatly apprecated.

Thank you very much.