Reading in html text files causes prob

[Anon]

I have what I hope is a simple problem that I cant seem to figure out.

I am buiding a form to let me edit my .css file and a .inc file which contains HTML

These drive the site design / look and feel

I can pull in the data into a form only in both instances the first part of the file seems to be left out

EG..

$filename = "includes/menutop.inc";
$fd = fopen($filename, "r") or 

die("Cant open file");

	$fstring = fread($fd, filesize($filename));

	fclose($fd);
?>
	<FORM>
	<TEXTAREA rows=50 cols=75 name="newcss" wrap="virtual" value=
	<?php echo ("$fstring"); ?></textarea>
</FORM>

Shows me my file, but the first part of the code from it is missing and it's the HTML <title> command. Same with my CSS, the <STYLE TYPE="text/css"> is left out of the text box...

[nightowl]

What happens if you just do "echo $fstring;" ? does it print the whole text or also just the last part?

From that, you can determine where the problem is... next you can try to fix it 🙂

[Anon]

That is what i am saying, in my textbox I echo $fstring and it returns the contents of $filename with the first part of the file missing be it <title> or <style> or some other HTML command...

[yelvington]

Of course it won't work. Your HTML is bad. Take value= out of <textarea>; it doesn't belong there. To put a value into a textarea, echo it between <textarea> and </textarea>.

And you do not in your example close off the <textarea ... tag. As a result, the browser "eats" everything until the next random ">" character.

[Anon]

Thanks for everyones help so far...

I was closing off <TEXTAREA> in my original example...

<FORM>
<TEXTAREA rows=50 cols=75 name="newcss" wrap="virtual" value=
<?php echo ("$fstring"); ?></textarea>
</FORM>

I've skimmed the code now to

<FORM>
<TEXTAREA rows="30" cols="50" <?php echo ("$fstring"); ?></textarea>
</FORM>

With no joy, still the same problem

[Anon]

No, you're still making the same mistake. The textarea tag is not closed off. You need a ">" character after cols="50".

[Anon]

Steve

Thanks for your patience, it works now.

Cheers !!!