Editing .txt Files

bazpug

Hi on my website I have a page where regional leaders can enter there regions details, each of the subjects is stored in its own .txt file that is included in the page.

I would like to create an edit page so all the .txt files are pulled into individual text boxes the content can then be changed and saved.

Is this possible?

Cheers Baz

The Code for the website is

<a name="top"></a>
<?php
include 'content/regionname.txt';
?>
</font></h1>
<div align="center">
<p align="center"><img src="imgs\regionbanner.jpg" alt="Regional Banner" border="0"></p>
<p align="center"><img src="imgs\regionpic.jpg" alt="Regional Picture" width="1" height="1"></p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<div align="center">
<table class="main" width="85%" border="0">
<tr>
<td width="42%"><p>Regional Leaders</p></td>
<td width="58%"><p>
<?php
include 'content/rlname.txt';
?>
</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>Regional Leaders Forum ID</p></td>
<td><p>
<?php
include 'content/forumid.txt';
?>
</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>Meet Dates</p></td>
<td><p>
<?php
include 'content/meetdate.txt';
?>
</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>Next Meet</p></td>
<td><p>
<?php
include 'content/nxtmeet.txt';
?>
</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>Meet Location</p></td>
<td><p>
<?php
include 'content/meetlocation.txt';
?>
</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>Map To Meet Location</p></td>
<td><p>
<?php
include 'content/map.txt';
?>
</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>Meet Comments</p></td>
<td>
<p><?php
include 'content/meetcomments.txt';
?></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>Regional Website</p></td>
<td><p>
<?php
include 'content/website.txt';
?>
</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<p align="center"> </p>
<div align="center">
<table width="85%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="main">
<tr bgcolor="#3B81C7">
<td> <p><font color="#FFFFFF"><strong><font size="2">Local
Events </font></strong></font></p></td>
<td> <p><font color="#FFFFFF"><strong><font size="2">Date</font></strong></font></p></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#EDEFFE">
<td height="19"> <p>None at this time</p></td>
<td> <p>Watch this space</p></td>
</tr>
</table>

spectre013

This should get you started

<textarea name="test"><? include("../clear_text.html"); ?></textarea>

That will load the text file into a text area. Now if you have more then 1 set of details in the text file you would need to do something different. How to do that would depend on how the data is in the text file.

bazpug

Managed to sort it cheers for the help

The code if n e one is interested
<h1 align="center"><font color="#000099"><a name="top"></a>
<?php
include 'regionalname.txt';
?> Update Page
</font></h1>
<p align="center">Only
<?php
include 'rlname.txt';
?>
Has Permission To Update This Page
<form method=post>
<input type="hidden" value="<?php $tmp=($POST["file"])?$POST["file"]:$GET["file"]; echo $tmp;?>" name="file">
<select name ="file">
<option value=""> Please Choose From Bellow
<option value="regionalname.txt"> Region Name
<option value="rlname.txt"> Regional Leaders Name
<option value="forumid.txt"> Forum ID
<option value="meetdate.txt"> Meet Date
<option value="nxtmeet.txt"> Next Meet
<option value="forumid.txt"> Forum ID
<option value="map.txt"> Map to meet location
<option value="meetcomments.txt"> Meet Comments
<option value="website.txt"> Regional Website Link
<option value="contact.txt"> Contact Details
</select>
<input value="Open File" type=submit><hr>
<p>
<?php

if ($POST["submit"]=="submit") { // begin if statement
if (@fwrite(@fopen($POST["write"],"wb"), $POST["filetext"])) {
echo "File write successful";
} else {
echo "File write unsuccessful";
}
} else { //begin else block ?>
<input name="filetext" type="text" value="
<?php echo @fread(@fopen($tmp,"r"), @filesize($tmp));?>
" size="90">
<p> Please Confirm The File To Be Updated
<select name ="write">
<option value=""> Please Choose From Bellow
<option value="regionalname.txt"> Region Name
<option value="rlname.txt"> Regional Leaders Name
<option value="forumid.txt"> Forum ID
<option value="meetdate.txt"> Meet Date
<option value="nxtmeet.txt"> Next Meet
<option value="map.txt"> Map to meet location
<option value="meetcomments.txt"> Meet Comments
<option value="website.txt"> Regional Website Link
<option value="contact.txt"> Contact Details
</select>
<p>
<input name=submit value=submit type=submit>
<?php } //end if statement?>
</form>

                        <p align="center">&nbsp;</p>

destop

Hiya,

Perhaps a different way to to get the original post is to use the parse_ini_file("PATH/TO/FILE.TXT") function to read the file and
then build a form around it....

See the manual for more!

just a thought...

bazpug

When I enter the HTML for a URL in one of the text boxes next time it loads it in it cuts the text box short and displays some HTML afterwards. This means it cant be edited afterwards.
What I would like is for the link just to be entered and the website change it into a HTML Link. I have tried putting the include inside the <a href="INCLUDE HERE">Click Here</a> but that doesnt work. N e Ideas?

Cheers Baz

Weedpacket

If you were to look at the HTML source in your client you'll probably see why.

Try using [man]htmlspecialchars[/man] on anything text you want to display inside an HTML page when you don't what <html tags> to be rendered.

And, um, you're using an <input type="text"> instead of a <textarea> ... why?

bazpug

Sorry 'weed packect' I am pretty new to this how do you suggest I use htmlspecialchar? I am using the input type text because when I was using a text area it put lines in before the text for some reason which was confusing.

Thanks for any help in advanced think I may have got so far but am starting to get in a bit over my head now :S

Cheers Baz

Weedpacket

Originally posted by bazpug
Sorry 'weed packect' I am pretty new to this how do you suggest I use htmlspecialchar? I am using the input type text because when I was using a text area it put lines in before the text for some reason which was confusing.

Thanks for any help in advanced think I may have got so far but am starting to get in a bit over my head now :S

Cheers Baz

if(file_exists($tmp))
$text = join('',file($tmp));
else $text='';
<textarea name="filetext"><?php echo htmlspecialchars($text);?></textarea>

The extra lines would have been because you were doing something like

<textarea name="filetext">
<?php echo $text;?>
</textarea>
And those extra carriage returns were creating the extra lines.

bazpug

Sorry I am being really dumb now, I cant get it to work.
Could you do me a huge favour and show me were the code has to go

Managed to sort it cheers for the help

The code if n e one is interested
<h1 align="center"><font color="#000099"><a name="top"></a>
<?php
include 'regionalname.txt';
?> Update Page
</font></h1>
<p align="center">Only
<?php
include 'rlname.txt';
?>
Has Permission To Update This Page
<form method=post>
<input type="hidden" value="<?php $tmp=($POST["file"])?$POST["file"]:$GET["file"]; echo $tmp;?>" name="file">
<select name ="file">
<option value=""> Please Choose From Bellow
<option value="regionalname.txt"> Region Name
<option value="rlname.txt"> Regional Leaders Name
<option value="forumid.txt"> Forum ID
<option value="meetdate.txt"> Meet Date
<option value="nxtmeet.txt"> Next Meet
<option value="forumid.txt"> Forum ID
<option value="map.txt"> Map to meet location
<option value="meetcomments.txt"> Meet Comments
<option value="website.txt"> Regional Website Link
<option value="contact.txt"> Contact Details
</select>
<input value="Open File" type=submit><hr>
<p>
<?php
if ($POST["submit"]=="submit") { // begin if statement
if (@fwrite(@fopen($POST["write"],"wb"), $POST["filetext"])) {
echo "File write successful";
} else {
echo "File write unsuccessful";
}
} else { //begin else block ?>
<input name="filetext" type="text" value="
<?php echo @fread(@fopen($tmp,"r"), @filesize($tmp));?>
" size="90">
<p> Please Confirm The File To Be Updated
<select name ="write">
<option value=""> Please Choose From Bellow
<option value="regionalname.txt"> Region Name
<option value="rlname.txt"> Regional Leaders Name
<option value="forumid.txt"> Forum ID
<option value="meetdate.txt"> Meet Date
<option value="nxtmeet.txt"> Next Meet
<option value="map.txt"> Map to meet location
<option value="meetcomments.txt"> Meet Comments
<option value="website.txt"> Regional Website Link
<option value="contact.txt"> Contact Details
</select>
<p>
<input name=submit value=submit type=submit>
<?php } //end if statement?>
</form>

Thanks for your help it is really appreciated

Baz

bazpug

n e one?

bazpug

Please someone I have tried so many ways and cant get this to work 😕