Best Way to Update File Contents

Anon

G'day,

I am reading the contents of a file and placing that text into a form. The user can then update the file by editing the text in the form and submitting it.

The problem I am having is how to separate the html (and PHP) from the text itself.

Say, for example, the file contained the following:

Greatest Sports Heroes

I would like to put the text ("Greatest Sports Heroes") into the form
and leave out the html tags. However, I need a way to put those html tags
back into the appropriate places in the file when the user submits.

//I am doing this:

$text = fread($fp, filesize($file));

//but this gives me the text and the html tags

//I have also toyed exploding the contents into an array, like this:

First, I add a | at the end of what will become the array elements,

|
Greatest Sports Heroes|
|

Then, I explode the variable by the |'s

$text = fread($fp, filesize($file));
$pieces = explode("||",$text);

//Now I have

$pieces[0] = ""l
$pieces[1] = "Greatest Sports Heroes|";
$pieces[2] = "|";

So, I can now print "Greatest Sports Heroes" into my form value, but, then I have the problem of not wanting to display the |'s, so when I print the page, I have to str_replace the |'s.

Any ideas on a better way to do this?
I don't want to go to a database

Anon

#scan in the file contents into a variable
#store in another 2 dimensional array var what HTML tag comes at what charachter position in the string
#once this is done you can then ereg_replace the string removing the tags and display it in your form
#when that is done and you want to store the form contents back into a file you can then append into another string variable each charachter in a loop at the same time checking whether or not the current charachter position contains a tag by looking in the array if it contains a position number that mathches your currently appending string position number

I think I've said enough ..... let me know if it worked

     Neville :-)