PHP file adding extra characters to txt file

Meridian

Hi there I'm a total noob to php and I'm trying to use it to write datat to a text file so flash can read it back in as news from a text file.

I got the php working and writing to the text file but.... every where I use " or '
it adds a \ before it

EXAMPLE
<font color=\"#0058C9\" size=\"10\"><b>May \'03</b></font>

Anyone know how to fix this?

Jeauxr

I'm not sure if I get what your problem is, but it SHOULD be doing that.

When you want to use any character that has a specific purpose in PHP that is different than what you want it to print\parse, it is preceded by a virgule.

EX:

<?php

echo "<img src="okays.jpg" />";
// doesnt work


echo "<img src=\"okays.jpg\" />";
// this however, does
// it makes it so the server will ignore the
// character that follows the \

Please post your code and go into more detail.. I am pretty sure I have the wrong approach, although I hope you can get something from this.

Meridian

LOL, well it's good to know I at least have it doing the write thing even if it's not what I want. 🙂

<?php
@extract($_POST);
if(is_writable('news.txt'))
{
$fp = fopen('news.txt','a');

$content = "\n $dateformat1$date$dateformat2$headerformat1$header$headerformat2$body";

fwrite($fp,$content);
fclose($fp);
echo'your changes have been made';
}
else
{
echo'File is not writable';
}
?>

go to http://www.kodisdesign.com/dev/news.html to see how I setup the form.

All I'd like to see happen is to have the code out put without the extra /'s added in. 🙂 The reason being is that when flash reads the text file back in it's going to messup the html formatting.

hope this all makes sence.

p.s.
I've been trying to make heads or tails of this
http://us4.php.net/stripslashes I think it may be the answer but I don't know how to institute it. 🙂

Jeauxr


$datef1 = stripslashes($dateformat1);
// datef1 is now what $dateformat1 was, but
// now its how you wanted it, without the slashes

Meridian

Actually... I just figured it out about a minute ago

I used

fwrite($fp,stripslashes($content));

and it strips the slashes from everything. 🙂

Thank you so much for your help it's totally appreciated.