Editing data from txt file?

mooler

Hi I have no idea where to even begin to do this but this is what I´d like to acheive.

Load data from a textfile into a textfield. Then edit it and "submit" that so the changes are stored in the edited textfiel.

Samething as when I´ve made a post in this forum but later edits it.

Any ideas what I need to now to do this.

kevinsequeira

load the file see
http://www.php.net/manual/function.fopen.php
[fopen in read mode]
output the contents to textarea
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php
close the file

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fclose.php

edit the text area and write to file

http://www.php.net/manual/function.fopen.php
[fopen in write mode]

close the file

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fclose.php

that should get you going ...
reg
kevin

journy101

Well im new to this too but first you would need to open the file, for reading and writeing

$fp = fopen("file.txt","r+");

you could read all the contents like this

$contents = fread($fp, filesize("file.txt"));

To get it into a text field coulent you maybe someting like

echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"edit\" value=\"".$contents.">";

Im new to php so I could be wrong, someone corectme.

mooler

Thx for the quick answer get back to you in a couple of days with some more questions ;-)

journy101

mooler, you might want to click the link at the bottom mark thread as resolved, its a new feature and I think its very handy, this way if someone has the same problem as you and is searching the fourm, they can spot that yours was resolved.

Should be at the bottom of this page.

suntra

Don't forget to use htmlentities() and stripslashes() before outputting the contents of the file... if you don't and there is some HTML in the file (just think of </textarea>), it will all mix up... also, I'm sure you don't want \" instead of ", and so on...

mooler

great advices keep´em coming :-)