Please Help a Newbie!

Yabbalina

Hello,
I am very new to all of this and am trying my best to understand everything,
here is what I need to do: I need to have a form which will allow me to edit and write to a text file. Then I need a script to read the contents of that text file. I have looked at countless news posting scripts and have been unsuccessfull in stripping them of the functions I don't need (icons, multiple users etc.). Can someone please point me in the right direction here?

Thank You!

bad_goose

here you go:

<?php
if (isset($_POST['data'])) {
    $fp = fopen ("myfile.txt", "w");
    $filecontents = str_replace("\r\n", "\n", $_POST['data']);
    fwrite($fp, $filecontents);
    fclose ($fp);
}

$filecontents = implode("", file("myfile.txt"));
$filecontents = str_replace("\r\n", "\n", $filecontents);

if (!empty($_GET['edit'])) {;

?>

<h2>Editing File</h2>

<form action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="POST">
<textarea name="data" rows=30 cols=50><?=$filecontents?></textarea><br />
<input type="submit" value="Save Changes">
</form>

<?php
} else {
?>

<h2>Viewing File</h2>

<pre>
<?=$filecontents?>
</pre>

<a href="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>?edit=1">Click here</a> to edit the file.

<?php
}
?>

Yabbalina

Thank you very much for helping, though now I am getting this error:

Parse error: parse error in editor.php on line 3

Any ideas as to why?

Thanks!

bad_goose

Well, what is on line three of editor.php? Also, are you using php 4 or php 3? I wrote the script for php4.

Yabbalina

line 3 is this:
___$fp=fopen("myfile.txt",_"w");

I am using php3 not 4

thanks for the help

bad_goose

Oh, you're using php3. That's the problem. Here's how to adapt the script for php3:

Change all occurences of

$GET['something'] or $POST['somthing']

to simply

$somthing

For example, change $_POST['data'] to $data on line 2.

After you make all those changes, see if it works.