Newbie: How to generate multiple web pages with one PHP script

#1 (**permalink**) 01-20-2007

Hello, this is my first on this list. I have a photography website and I
want to gradually convert it to PHP. I'm new to PHP, but I do have some
Perl knowledge and I am an expert in Bash-scripting (linux). Up till now
I used a script to generate a list of nearly identical html-files like
photo/01.html, photo/02.html, photo/03.html etc.. Every page constists
of a picture with caption an previous/next buttons. The photo's are
numbered 01.jpg, 02.jpg etc. The only varying content in the pages is
the size (horizontal/vertical) of the pictures and the captions. The
whole thing acts as a slide show. I want to write a PHP script which can
replace the list of HTML files, is such a thing possible? TIA, Max.

This is the site what it's about (not a plug!! I only want technical
information) http://www.maccusfoto.nl/

This is the Bash-script I use to generate the pages:

#!/bin/bash

clear

# Check for configuration file

if [ ! -f ./genpages.conf ]; then

echo -e "Configuration file not found! Aborting..."
exit 1

else

echo -e "Reading configuration file..."
sleep 1
. ./genpages.conf
echo -e "Done..."

fi

# Check for base directory

if [ ! -d "${ROOTDIR}" ]; then

echo -e "${ROOTDIR} Not found! Edit configuration file. Aborting..."
sleep 2
exit 1

fi

# Set direcory level

case ${DIRLEVEL} in

1) DIRLEVEL="../";;
2) DIRLEVEL="../../";;
3) DIRLEVEL="../../../";;

esac

LOOPCOUNT="0"

until [ "${LOOPCOUNT}" -ge "${PAGES}" ]; do

# Count the pages and set the variables

LOOPCOUNT="`expr ${LOOPCOUNT} + 1`"

if [ "${LOOPCOUNT}" -lt "10" ]; then

if [ "${LOOPCOUNT}" -eq "9" ]; then

NEXT="$(expr ${LOOPCOUNT} + 1)"

else

NEXT="0$(expr ${LOOPCOUNT} + 1)"

fi

LOOPCOUNT="0${LOOPCOUNT}"
PREV="0$(expr ${LOOPCOUNT} - 1)"

elif [ "${LOOPCOUNT}" -eq "10" ]; then

NEXT="$(expr ${LOOPCOUNT} + 1)"
PREV="0$(expr ${LOOPCOUNT} - 1)"

elif [ "${LOOPCOUNT}" -gt "10" ]; then

NEXT="$(expr ${LOOPCOUNT} + 1)"
PREV="$(expr ${LOOPCOUNT} - 1)"

fi

[ "${PREV}" = "00" ] && PREV="${DIRLEVEL}${STARTPAGE}"
[ "${LOOPCOUNT}" = "${PAGES}" ] && NEXT="${DIRLEVEL}${STARTPAGE}"

# Check for image files

if [ ! -f "${ROOTDIR}/${SUBDIR}/images/${LOOPCOUNT}.jpg" ]; then

echo "No image(s) found in ${ROOTDIR}/${SUBDIR}/images/"

# Create subdirectory

if [ ! -d "${ROOTDIR}/${SUBDIR}" ]; then

mkdir -p "${ROOTDIR}/${SUBDIR}/images/orig"
echo -e "Created ${ROOTDIR}/${SUBDIR}/images. Add your images."

fi

echo -e "Aborting..."
sleep 2
exit 1

fi

ORIENTATION="`identify ${ROOTDIR}/${SUBDIR}/images/${LOOPCOUNT}.jpg
| cut -d " " -f 3`"
WIDTH="`echo ${ORIENTATION} | cut -d "x" -f 1`"
HEIGHT="`echo ${ORIENTATION} | cut -d "x" -f 2`"
CAPTION="`grep "CAPTION_${LOOPCOUNT}=" ./genpages.conf | sed
"s|CAPTION_${LOOPCOUNT}=|| ; s|[\\\"]||g"`"

# Write the HTML pages

echo "Writing ${ROOTDIR}/${SUBDIR}/${LOOPCOUNT}.html"

echo -e "<!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>

<title>${GENERAL_TITLE} - Photo ${LOOPCOUNT}</title>

<meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />
<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"15;URL=${NEXT}.html\" />
<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Fotografie & Webdesign:
Maxim Heijndijk\" />
<meta name=\"copyright\" content=\"Fotografie & Webdesign:
Maxim Heijndijk\" />

<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\"
href=\"${DIRLEVEL}../index.css\" />

</head>

<body oncontextmenu=\"return false\">

<table summary=\"${GENERAL_TITLE} - Photo ${LOOPCOUNT}\"
align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\"
width=\"100%\" class=\"caption\">

<tr>

<td align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"10%\">
<a href=\"${PREV}.html\"><img alt=\"Previous\"
src=\"${DIRLEVEL}images/prev.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"22\"
height=\"24\" /></a>
</td>

<td align=\"center\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"80%\">
<a href=\"${NEXT}.html\"><img alt=\"${IMG_ALT}\"
src=\"images/${LOOPCOUNT}.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"${WIDTH}\"
height=\"${HEIGHT}\" /></a>
</td>

<td align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"10%\">
<a href=\"${NEXT}.html\"><img alt=\"Next\"
src=\"${DIRLEVEL}images/next.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"22\"
height=\"24\" /></a>
</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td align=\"center\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" valign=\"top\" width=\"100%\"
height=\"10%\" colspan=\"3\">
<br />
${CAPTION}
<br />
<br />
</td>

</tr>

</table>

</body>

</html>" > "${ROOTDIR}/${SUBDIR}/${LOOPCOUNT}.html"

done

# Backup the configuration
cp -f "./genpages.conf" "${ROOTDIR}/${SUBDIR}/genpages.conf"

exit 0

#2 (**permalink**) 01-20-2007

Maxim Heijndijk wrote:
> The whole thing acts as a slide show. I
> want to write a PHP script which can replace the list of HTML files,
> is such a thing possible?

Yes

#3 (**permalink**) 01-20-2007

Paul Lautman schreef:
> Maxim Heijndijk wrote:
>> The whole thing acts as a slide show. I
>> want to write a PHP script which can replace the list of HTML files,
>> is such a thing possible?
>
> Yes

That's helpfull !

Your original solution is actually the best solution. No stress on the
server whatsoever. If I were you I would not change it unless you want
some extra functionality like dynamic alt tags or file upload (to make
life easier)

There are millions of scripts around that will do what u want so choose
one and modify it (if you kow perl you can read a good deal of php as
well). Personally I would not trust php with image manipulation (cause
it isn't that good) and I would use a database to store image meta data
(NOT the image itself).

So have a go at it and if you run into trouble just post ur code here

--
Arjen
http://www.hondenpage.com

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