PHP Remote Files Interaction Tutorial
Yesterday’s PHP Remote Files Primer Tutorial start to our Remote Files PHP web application is improved today, but not in its essence of operation, if you will, by adding HTML form navigation and interaction.
These days with HTML form input elements we find the use of placeholder attribute (perhaps with title attribute augmentation) is a better approach to that of using any textbox labelling arrangement. And we like the use of the ondblclick event to, perhaps, save the user some typing by filling in the (input element) textbox value with a version of the placeholder ready for the user to tweak or leave as appropriate. This seemed particularly useful for our input type=url textbox, as the entering of URLs from scratch can be quite tedious, we find.
So please try the changed into a remote_files.php third draft usage of PHP fopen URL web application it is now apt to show you in use within an iframe below, if that suits better …
Previous relevant PHP Remote Files Primer Tutorial is shown below.
PHP Remote Files Primer Tutorial
If your background is in C programming (and the use of fopen function), you might be amazed at PHP’s fopen function’s talents at opening URLs, as well as “desktop” files we (programming citizens of senior years “shell we say”) might have more associated with “fopen thoughts”.
Combine this PHP fopen URL talent with preg_match function talent, and you’ve got a pretty simple paradigm to do pretty sophisticated searches through webpage contents for data of interest.
And so, stumbling upon this excellent advice we were able to tailor a first draft into a second draft (so far non-interactive) usage of PHP fopen URL web application you could try for yourself playing around with …
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