how do most people / developers code HTML output in their tools ?
i am lost with that aspect of my projects. i am trying to hand write it manually but i am confused how to go about it correctly and more speedily. hence the question.
here is what i am doing in this delph 6 project:
1. manually enter an url-coded search string
2. and post it in a browser window and wait for the result
3. select and copy the returned output
4. paste it into a listbox so i can parse the data field/values. (note, just finished the custom parser for this project)
5. now take the parsed content and repost it in html pretty format back to (any) browser as a finished preview result
at this point in the project, i no longer have to use a stand alone browser, i.e., Opera. i found an activex browser control (gecko) that seems to work ok, so far, in place of a stand alone browser.
i also have step 2 incorporated into my app, so that no stand alone browser is necessary.
this is the returned search results.
and after parsing it, (the output is messy looking here) but i would like to incorporate into the app as a finished prettier preview output in HTML format in my application.Code:{"Title":"Blade Runner","Year":"1982","Rated":"R","Released":"25 Jun 1982","Runtime":"117 min","Genre":"Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller","Director":"Ridley Scott","Writer":"Hampton Fancher (screenplay), David Webb Peoples (screenplay), Philip K. Dick (novel)","Actors":"Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos","Plot":"A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.","Language":"English, German, Cantonese, Japanese, Hungarian","Country":"USA, Hong Kong, UK","Awards":"Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 15 nominations.","Poster":"http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTA4MDQxNTk2NDheQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU3MDE2NjIyODk@._V1_SX300.jpg","Metascore":"88","imdbRating":"8.3","imdbVotes":"357,198","imdbID":"tt0083658","Type":"movie","Response":"True"}
its been a long time since i dived into html. so i had to refresh myself. this is what i have as a bases/template. now i need to know how to program it to incorporate the data in the above 1..5 steps, so that every time i enter a new search, the results are turned in an html format for live preview in my application.Code:"Title": "Blade Runner "Year": "1982 "Rated": "R "Released": "25 Jun 1982 "Runtime": "117 min "Genre": "Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller "Director": "Ridley Scott "Writer": "Hampton Fancher (screenplay), David Webb Peoples (screenplay), Philip K. Dick (novel) "Actors": "Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos "Plot": "A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator. "Language": "English, German, Cantonese, Japanese, Hungarian "Country": "USA, Hong Kong, UK "Awards": "Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 15 nominations. "Poster": "http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTA4MDQxNTk2NDheQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU3MDE2NjIyODk@._V1_SX300.jpg "Metascore": "88 "imdbRating": "8.3 "imdbVotes": "357,198 "imdbID": "tt0083658 "Type": "movie "Response": "movie
the template:
so, what do people use to get this aspect of the project completed quicker ?Code:<html> <head> <title>imDB movie/tv show search viewer</title> </head> <body> Title: Blade Runner Year: 1982 . . </body> </html>
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Last edited by vhelp; 26th May 2014 at 23:12.
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The simplest way in html is to use tables. So your output could be...
<table>
<tr>
<td>Title: Blade Runner</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Year: 1982</td>
</tr>
</table>
More efficiently, since it is just one dynamic page, would be to collect the data in a database and use php/MySQL to retrieve and display. Each item title, year etc. is then a field of the db and the code looks like this:
<?php
/get the data from the database or from the parsed results/
echo"<table>";
echo"<tr>
<td>Title: $title</td>
</tr>";
echo"<tr>
<td>Year: $year</td>
</tr>";
echo"</table>";
?>Last edited by DB83; 27th May 2014 at 06:30. Reason: clarity