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Embedding a sketch in a php page

d_m_nd_m_n
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I can embed a sketch in a html page, but when I try to embed the same sketch in a php page, it doesn't work. I have other php pages running fine on my laptop. Is processing.js incompatible with php? Or am I missing something really obvious?

Any help appreciated.

d.

Here's the code for processingTest.php

<body>
<canvas data-processing-sources="processing/flowmatic_600.pde" width="600px" height="400px"></canvas>
</body>

Answers

  • GoToLoopGoToLoop

    Got no idea. But as a workaround, how about transpile sketches to JS? ;;)
    http://processingjs.org/tools/processing-helper.html

  • quarkquark

    Bit rusty on PHP but...

    In this situation you are using PHP to generate the HTML code. Anything NOT between <?php and ?> tags will be echoed back to the client so

    <php
// the page must start with a php block

?>
 body>
<canvas data-processing-sources="processing/flowmatic_600.pde" width="600px" height="400px"></canvas>
</body>

<?php
// more php code
?>

    The alternative is to use the echo statement or print functions to return the actual HTML statements from inside the php blocks.

  • d_m_nd_m_n

    Thanks for your help. I did a bit more digging in the browser and it turns out that I was getting the following error,

    "Unable to load pjs sketch files: myFileName.pde ==> Invalid XHR status 404" message in browser

    which this forum thread helped me to fix.

    http://forum.processing.org/one/topic/unable-to-load-pjs-sketch-files-lifetime-web-pde-invalid-xhr-status-404-message-in-browser.html

    I'm using IIS (on windows) and it turns out that it was (helpfully!) filtering out the .pde file type. When I added it as an acceptable extension, everything worked fine.

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