I do not understand what I am doing wrong with the assignment and this is online course and the professor has not responded to my questions.
Let me post the question and my answer. I literally spent 10 hours figuring out why my php files will not work at all, I am calling it a night and hopefully someone can give me advice what is going wrong. I also looked at other classmates code and mine comes very similar to theirs other than naming convention.
1. Write a program that lets the user choose how many sides a die has and print a random roll with the appropriate maximum values.
2. Create a web page generator. Make a form for the page caption, background color, font color, and text body. Use this form to generate an html page.
Let me post the question and my answer. I literally spent 10 hours figuring out why my php files will not work at all, I am calling it a night and hopefully someone can give me advice what is going wrong. I also looked at other classmates code and mine comes very similar to theirs other than naming convention.
1. Write a program that lets the user choose how many sides a die has and print a random roll with the appropriate maximum values.
PHP:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$die = 0;
$integer = 0;
extract($_REQUEST);
print <<<HERE
<form>
<h3> Select the type of dice you want to roll and press ROLL button: </h3>
<input name="die" type="radio" value="100" /> Dice of 100<br>
<input name="die" type="radio" value="200" /> Dice of 200<br>
<input name="die" type="radio" value="400" /> Dice of 400<br>
<input name="die" type="radio" value="1776" /> Dice of 1776<br>
<input name="die" type="radio" value="45" /> Dice of 45<br>
<hr />
<input value= "ROLL" type = "submit">
</form>
HERE;
if ($die > 0){
print "<p> You picked $die </p>";
}
switch ($die){
case 45:
$integer = rand(1,45);
break;
case 100:
$integer = rand(1,100);
break;
case 200:
$integer = rand(1,200);
break;
case 400:
$integer = rand(1,400);
break;
case 1776:
$integer = rand(1,1776);
break;
}
if (!empty($integer)){
print "<p>Your final is $integer !</p>";
$die = 0;
}
?>
</body>
</html>2. Create a web page generator. Make a form for the page caption, background color, font color, and text body. Use this form to generate an html page.
PHP:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Website Generator</title>
<?
if($generate) { //if its the generated content
extract($_POST); //extracts post vars and show the style
echo<<<HTMLDOC
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color:$bgcolor;
color:$fontcolor;
font-size:$fontsize;
font-family:$fontfamily;
}
</style>
HTMLDOC;
}
?>
</head>
<body>
<?
if($generate) { //show generated content if its generated
echo "<h2>$caption</h2>";
echo $bodycontent;
}
else { //if not generated page, show the form instead
echo<<<HTMLDOC
<div style="width:300px;margin:0px auto;text-align:center">
<form method="post" action="webGenerator.php">
<p>Background Color: <input type="text" name="bgcolor" /></p>
<p>Font Color: <input type="text" name="fontcolor" /></p>
<p>Font Family: <input type="text" name="fontfamily" /></p>
<p>Font Size: <input type="text" name="fontsize" /></p>
<p>Page Caption: <input type="text" name="caption" /></p>
<p>Body Content: <textarea name="bodycontent" rows="10" cols="40"></textarea></p>
<p><input type="submit" name="generate" value="Generate Site" /></p>
</form>
</div>
HTMLDOC;
}
?>
</body>
</html>