Question Regarding..A few things really

FoxhoundX

Okay, I have a few questions regarding an 'admin panel' I am making for a script I completed, it is a picture upload script that you input name/email, and a title for the picture, and it uploads and puts the input onto a file which is outputted onto a different page..

My question is this -

Would there be a way to have a page where it puts the contents of the file into a text box, then you can edit it from there, then when you hit submit it will clear it and put the new 'content' in?

Please let me know 🙂
Firebird

Also, is there any way to delete files via PHP?

sleepingdanny

It can be done with MYSQL, But I can't help you with it :p

FoxhoundX

Basically my main question is - Can you display contents of a txt file onto a textarea of a form?

laserlight

Can you display contents of a txt file onto a textarea of a form

Of course. Simply read the file and write the output to the given textarea.

is there any way to delete files via PHP

Check out unlink()
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.unlink.php

FoxhoundX

Okay, can someone tell me what is wrong with my code? Probably something stupid, it's like 5:30 in the morning :S


$adminedit = 'pics.txt';
<form method="POST" action="delentry.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<?
echo "<textarea name=editpic cols=100 rows=50 value='";
echo $adminedit;
echo "'>";
?>
<button name="submit" type="submit">Submit Changes</button>
</FORM>

The output is the textbox with the following in it:

<button name="submit" type="submit">Submit Changes</button>
</FORM>

<br><br><a href="http://www.t4cbible.com/">Click here to go back to the Main Page.</a>
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</font>
</body>
</html>

laserlight

Let me guess, you want to open and edit pics.txt?

You could try:

<?php
$adminedit = 'pics.txt';
$fp = fopen($adminedit, "r");
$text = fread($fp, filesize($adminedit));
fclose($fp);
$text = htmlspecialchars($text);
?>
<form method="post" action="delentry.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<textarea name="editpic" cols="100" rows="50"><?php
echo $text;
?></textarea>
<button name="submit" type="submit">Submit Changes</button>
</form>

One of the problems is that <textarea> doesnt have a value attribute, it takes as its value any valid string between the opening and closing tags.

EDIT: oops, yeah barand, automatic :p

barand

Umm, I don't think you want that nl2br() when putting it in a text area.

FoxhoundX

That works great, tyvm 🙂

Now is there a way to use unlink with a string? I made a input text box that sends the entry to the next page that uses unlink($variable);, but it gives me errors :S Any Ideas?

laserlight

Well, you should be able to use it that way, though in terms of security it can be risky.

One possible reason why you cant unlink the file specified is that the permissions of the file do not allow you to do so.
You may have to chmod the file first.

FoxhoundX

It is for a passworded Admin Panel, So I don't expect too many people to have access 😛

So there is no way to delete files without 777 it first?