Editing text file in a text box

Anon

I'm totally new with the PHP, but I know basics about ASP.

I'm looking for a PHP script, that with I could load text file into text box, edit it, and finally store it again. (I would also like to retain the line feeds / carriage returns)

Any hints? Thanks in advance

Anon

I would write the text to a file, then use an include to place it into a textarea ...

Have your form point to a script that fputs the text into the file ...

$filename="text.txt";
$file = fopen($filename, "w");
fputs($file, $text);
fclose($file);

You can put the form and the script that writes the file into the same script, that way you will see your updated text instantly.

Make sure the text file is writable by the webserver.

Anon

Thank you David.

Here's what I got by now. How to fix it, so that it works? Is it feasible to keep everything in one file?

<head>
<title>www-editor</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">

<?php
/ HOW TO READ OPTION AND PARAMETERS FROM THE BUFFER (post) /URL? /
if ($option == "edit") {
echo " Toimiiko?";
$fp = fopen("the_file.txt", "r+");
$file_content = fread($fp, filesize("the_file.txt"));
$file_content = htmlentities($file_content);
fclose($fp);
echo "<FORM NAME='text' ACTION='$PHP_SELF?option=save' METHOD='post'>";
echo " <TEXTAREA NAME='file_content' COLS=80 ROWS=20 WRAP=VERTICAL>";
echo $file_content;
echo " </TEXTAREA> ";
echo " <P>";
echo " <INPUT TYPE='SUBMIT' NAME='UPDATE' VALUE='UPDATE'>";
echo " <INPUT TYPE='RESET' name='CLEAR' value='CLEAR FORM'>";
echo " </FORM>";
echo " </BODY>";
echo " ";
}
elseif ($option == "save") {
$fp=fopen($file, "w");
fwrite($fp, $text); / HOW TO READ THE FORM VARIABLE /
fclose($fp);
echo "File updated!";
}
else {
header("Location: $PHP_SELF?opt=edit");
}
?>
</BODY>