problem opening a txt file and displaying contents in a textarea

martincrumlish

Hi,

I am writing a simple form to admin the contents of a text file. The text file is opened, the value is echoed into the textarea and when you submit the new contents of the textarea are written to the txt file.

This all works fine when the txt file is on the same server as the PHP file. However, the problem I have is as follows:

I have a text file on a different server, when I try to use it I get an error in the textarea instead of the contents of the text file.

Here is the form code:

<form action="<? $PHP_SELF ?>" method="post" name="form3">
Text:<textarea name="content" rows="5" cols="40"><?
$fn = "http://www.websiteaddress.com/ppbanners/dyntext/specials_text.txt";
print htmlspecialchars(implode("",file($fn)));
?>
</textarea>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="submit3" value="submit3" size="34"> 
</form>

Here is the code that is triggered when the form is submitted:

if($submit3)
{

$fn = "http://www.websiteaddress.com/ppbanners/dyntext/specials_text.txt";
$content = stripslashes($content);
$fp = fopen($fn,"w") or die ("Error opening file in write mode!");
fputs($fp,$content);
fclose($fp) or die ("Error closing file!");
if($fp)
	{
	echo "Banner updated<p>";
	}
}

And here is the error that I am gettg inside the textarea:

<b>Warning</b>:  php_network_getaddresses: gethostbyname failed in <b>c:\program files\nusphere\apache\htdocs\editflash\editflashtxt.php</b> on line <b>126</b><br>
<br>
<b>Warning</b>:  file("http://www.websiteaddress.com/ppbanners/dyntext/specials_text.txt") - No error in <b>c:\program files\nusphere\apache\htdocs\editflash\editflashtxt.php</b> on line <b>126</b><br>
<br>
<b>Warning</b>:  Bad arguments to implode() in <b>c:\program files\nusphere\apache\htdocs\editflash\editflashtxt.php</b> on line <b>126</b><br>

Help with this is appreciated as I haven't got a clue!

NOTE: I have changed the URL of the site I am working on as I cant let the site be known.

Thanks for your help,

Martin

ednark

check and see if you are allowed to fopen a URL with the 'w' parameter

martincrumlish

mmm, how do I do that?

I am not too sure........

bbaassiri

im not sure if you can write to the file on a different server if you do not set up the file as write,

you need to make sure that the file/folder on the other server allows world writeable permission(BTW , this is very dangerous!!!)

I think you should change your approach for writing directly to a file that is located on a different machine

martincrumlish

Hi,

the file permissions are set to write...I set them to 777 temporarily until I get it working.

The location of this file is not apparent to the public as it is just called into a Flash movie so they couldnt see the location.

What other way could u think of doing this?

bbaassiri

If you had access on the other server, set up a script to accept data, and write it to file , at least you do not open writable access to the world