PHP Echo Location Placement

[hisabness]

I am using PHP to create and index of the files contained in a directory. I then echo the files by including the index function in another php script. How can I change where the PHP shows up? It currently shows up at the top of the page but I would like to inject it into a specific DIV. I've tried using innerHTML in JavaScript but have had little success.

code is below:

<?php

function Indexer($indexer) {
	
	switch ($indexer) {
	case "A":
	$indexLocation="gloss/A";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "B":
	$indexLocation="gloss/B";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	
	case "C":
	$indexLocation="gloss/C";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	
	case "D":
	$indexLocation="gloss/D";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "E":
	$indexLocation="gloss/E";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "F":
	$indexLocation="gloss/F";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	
	case "G":
	$indexLocation="gloss/G";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	
	case "H":
	$indexLocation="gloss/H";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	case "I":
	$indexLocation="gloss/I";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	case "J":
	$indexLocation="gloss/J";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	case "K":
	$indexLocation="gloss/K";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	case "L":
	$indexLocation="gloss/L";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "M":
	$indexLocation="gloss/M";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "N":
	$indexLocation="gloss/N";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "O":
	$indexLocation="gloss/O";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "P":
	$indexLocation="gloss/P";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "Q":
	$indexLocation="gloss/Q";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "R":
	$indexLocation="gloss/R";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "S":
	$indexLocation="gloss/S";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "T":
	$indexLocation="gloss/T";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "U":
	$indexLocation="gloss/U";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "V":
	$indexLocation="gloss/V";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "W":
	$indexLocation="gloss/W";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "X":
	$indexLocation="gloss/X";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "Y":
	$indexLocation="gloss/Y";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	
	case "Z":
	$indexLocation="gloss/Z";
	return $indexLocation;
	break;
	
	}
	
}


	function renderIndex(){
	
	if(isset($_GET['gloss']))
{
	$html=indexer($_GET['gloss']);
	$handle = opendir($html);
	while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
      $exploded = explode(".", $file);
	  $mang="<a id='gloss' href='#'".$file."'>".$exploded[0]."</a><br>";
	  
	}
 
    closedir($handle);
	

	
} else {



}
	}

and this in the html file where i want the code to appear:

include_once 'renderIndex.php';

[Krstevski]

First, shorten the code :)

function Indexer($indexer) {
	return "gloss/" . $indexer;
}

Second, in html file you can't include file :)

Change the extension html to php and then you will can include renderIndex.php

[hisabness]

Right, I changed the code to the following:

<?php

function Indexer($indexer) {
		return "gloss/".$indexer;
	}

	function renderIndex(){
	
	if(isset($_GET['gloss']))
{
	$html=Indexer($_GET['gloss']);
	$handle = opendir($html);
	while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
      $exploded = explode(".", $file);
	  echo "<a id='gloss' href='#'".$file."'>".$exploded[0]."</a><br>";
	
	}
 
    closedir($handle);
	

	
} else {



}
	}

I then have something like the following on my actual index page:

include_once 'renderIndexer.php'
echo 'XXXXX<div></div>'.renderIndexer.php.'more html here';

the problem is that the indexer puts the data before the XXXX instead of after the DIV. Any help?

[Krstevski]

<div id="yourIndexer">
include_once ('renderIndexer.php');
</div>

With this code, between div tags will be content of the "renderIndexer.php".

In your case use:

echo 'XXXXX';
echo '<div>';
include_once('renderIndexer.php');
echo '</div>';
echo 'more html here';

[hisabness]

<div id="yourIndexer">
include_once ('renderIndexer.php');
</div>

With this code, between div tags will be content of the "renderIndexer.php".

In your case use:

echo 'XXXXX';
echo '<div>';
include_once('renderIndexer.php');
echo '</div>';
echo 'more html here';

your solution does not work.

[Krstevski]

What happens, error, missing data or... ?

I tried this:

index.php

<html>
<body>
	<p> Test 1 </p>
	<?php include_once("test.php"); ?>
	<p> Test 2 </p>
</body>
</html>

test.php

<?php
	echo "This is a message 1 <br/>";
	echo "This is a message 2 <br/>";
	echo "This is a message 3 <br/>";
?>

And the output was:

Test 1

This is a message 1
This is a message 2
This is a message 3

Test 2

[hisabness]

What happens, error, missing data or... ?

I tried this:

index.php

<html>
<body>
	<p> Test 1 </p>
	<?php include_once("test.php"); ?>
	<p> Test 2 </p>
</body>
</html>

test.php

<?php
	echo "This is a message 1 <br/>";
	echo "This is a message 2 <br/>";
	echo "This is a message 3 <br/>";
?>

And the output was:

I think the issue might be that im also echoing the html to index.php. So im including renderIndex.php in index.php, so it's not as straight forward as what you propose.

[ko ko]

Your function return value, not echo value. You need to echo the value. Example:

include_once('renderIndexer.php');
echo renderIndex();

[hisabness]

Your function return value, not echo value. You need to echo the value. Example:

include_once('renderIndexer.php');
echo renderIndex();

thats what i did and it places it in a weird location. Please see the following: http://www.abinomics.com/?gloss=A