Need assistance with my Content Management project

Pedro_Monteiro

I'm building a content management system for my web site, but sadly I'm way over my head. My PHP knowledge is very scarce ( to say the least ) and it quite simply not enough for something of this complexity.

I need an html form to get specific variables from an external PHP file into a text field. This way, all content of the variable would be editable inside of the text area.

I also need an html list/menu form object to chose which variable ill be edited inside that external php file.

Here's the link to the details of what I need:

http://www.tertuliadofado.com/work.html

Appreciate all the help

Pedro_Monteiro

Heres what im attempting

Cant seem to get it to work.

http://www.tertuliadofado.com/conte...eworkdammit.php

The list isnt recognizing the variables.

The html form file

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="form.php">
<select name="selectname">
<option selected>Get variables</option>
<option name="selectname1" value="text1">Get variable 1</option>
<option name="selectname2" value="text2">Get variable 2</option>
</select>
<br>
<textarea name="textareaname"></text>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Form.php - the file that the html form executes.

<?
// this should be in the file that processes the form, ie: action=thisfile.php
/
use the list values to determine which file to use:
remember: you need to give your <SELECT> list a name and give each <OPTION> a value (in your example, "variable1" and "variable2" would be appropriate)
/
if($GET["textareaname"]=="text1" )$filename = "content.php";
else if($GET["textareaname"]=="text2" )$filename = "content.php";
else die("no variable selected" );
// update the file:
$ofile=fopen($filename,"w" );
fwrite($ofile,$_GET["textareaname"]);
fclose($filename);
// display confirm page:
header("Location: confirm.php" );
?>

content.php - the variables file

<?php
// Texto da página principal
$text1 = "text 1";
$text2 = "text 2";
?>

Frederick

instead of using

$_GET["textareaname"]=="text1"

use

$textareaname == "text1"

paul088

What do you mean by "specific variables from an external PHP file into a text field. "? Do you mean pass variables from another page to your form?

Pedro_Monteiro

Cheers mate

Still unable to get the variables though. 🙁

Pedro_Monteiro

paul088, exacly. 🙂

Frederick

in your form, you have
<textarea name="textareaname"></text>

name=textareaname is $textareaname variable when it is pass to another page.

if($textareaname == "text1" ) {
$filename = "content.php";
} else
if($textareaname == "text2" ) {
$filename = "content.php";
}

Pedro_Monteiro

Originally posted by Frederick
in your form, you have
<textarea name="textareaname"></text>

name=textareaname is $textareaname variable when it is pass to another page.
if($textareaname == "text1" ) {
$filename = "content.php";
} else
if($textareaname == "text2" ) {
$filename = "content.php";
}
[/B]

So what exacly do I have to do?

I appologise for this annoying ignorance of mine. 🙁

paul088

Shoud be
if ($selectname =="text1")

Also remove name=blah within your <option > field.

Pedro_Monteiro

So should it look something like this...

Form.php

if(selectname=="text1")$filename = "content.php";
else if(selectname=="text2")$filename = "content.php";
else die("no variable selected");

$ofile=fopen($filename,"w");
fwrite($ofile,$_POST["textareaname"]);
fclose($filename);

header("Location: confirm.php");
?>

content.php

<?php

$text1 = "textfromvariable1";

$text2 = "textfromvariable2";

HTML form

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="form.php">
<select name="selectname">
<option selected>Get variables</option>
<option value="text1">Get variable 1</option>
<option value="text2">Get variable 2</option>
</select>
<br>
<textarea name="textareaname"></text>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

paul088

At least it should pass the variables to form.php. Just a minor mistake:

$selectname instead of selectname.

I also noticed that no matter what $selectname is, it goes to the same file content.php. Why then you need the if condition?

paul088

BTW, it should be safe to use $textareaname in place of $POST["textareaname"] here for simplicity. If your form and script to process the data from the form are on the same page, you must use $POST or $HTTP_POST_VARS.

Good luck.