BIG PROBLEM writing file editor with PHP

Anon

Hello. I'm trying to write a PHP script that will open an HTML file, print the contents of the HTML file into a <TEXTAREA> form field, and then allow me to modify it and submit the changes so that the changes will be reflected on the file on the server.

I used the file() function to read the original file into an array, and then a for() loop to print the contents of the file array to the <TEXTAREA> field. I make changes to the file in the textarea field and then hit Submit. The changes that I made are stored into the $fileData variable and then passed into a function that prints the contents of $fileData to file. The problem is, my new file has backslashes all over the place.

If I had a line that said:

there would be backslashes in front of the two quotes, even though I did not make such changes in the textarea field when I modified the file. How do I get PHP to just write the file as I told it to in the textarea field instead of putting all of these stupid backslashes all over the place?

Thanks,
-Mike

Anon

use stripslashes() in your for loop
I assume you are printing each line like

for($i=0;$i<count($file);$i++) {
print $file[$i];
}
So do this:
for($i=0;$i<count($file);$i++) {
print stripslashes($file[$i]);
}

Anon

Thanks, Louie. stripslashes() did the trick. That's definately the most useful function I've come across! =)

-Mike

Anon

Please help to write a report in a proper manner.

I have used fput but cannot write to specific column in one row.
eq.
id at column 1
name at column 10 and
address at column 30

Anon

Use the stripslashes function:

i.e.
stripslashes($filedata);

then put the $filedata var into the file.

Hope this helps,
Mike D