[Resolved] fopen / fgets oddity

[The_Chancer]

I am trying to read a file into a textarea to enable me to change and eventually rewrite a file...

I am using the following function

function edit_file($file) {
	$handle=fopen(urldecode($file),"r+");
	echo "<textarea name=filetext cols=100 rows=30>";
	$i=1;
	while (!feof ($handle)) {
    $buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
    echo "<".$i.">".$buffer;
    $i++;
}
echo "</textarea>";
fclose ($handle);
}

which does that perfectly.... UNTIL

The file I am not opening includes the code </textarea> in it (I am changing html forms via a webpage), and as a result it closes the textarea for me then spits the rest of teh file out after it.

I am stumped for a workaround for this or another way of doing it, as I can't really change the code as it comes out, as it will look wrong, and seem incorrect HTML on the screen.

Any ideas ?

[kja]

Use the function "htmlentities" to write values in input elements.
Try ...

function edit_file($file) {
$handle=fopen(urldecode($file),"r+");
echo "<textarea name=filetext cols=100 rows=30>";
$i=1;
while (!feof ($handle)) {
$buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
echo htmlentities("<".$i.">".$buffer);
$i++;
}
echo "</textarea>";
fclose ($handle);
}

//Johan

[The_Chancer]

:-)

All working now - many thanks Johan...