weird ASCII

[simwiz]

i use this where it opens the file news.php.

$fd = fopen($filename_news, "r") or die ("cannot read $filename");
$read_file = fread($fd, filesize($filename_news));

echo "<form name='form1' action='save_news.php' method='post'>";
echo '<textarea cols="80" rows="8" name="txt_box_news">'.$read_file.'</textarea>';
echo '<input type="submit" name="submit" value="save">';
echo '</form>';

ONCE i click on the save button i do this !!!

$this_box_save_news = $_POST['txt_box_news'];
$filename_news = "pages/news.php";

$fd= fopen($filename_news, "w+") or die ("cannot open $filename");
$fout = fwrite ($fd, $this_box_save_news);
fclose($fd);
$filename_news = "pages/news.php";

$fd= fopen($filename_news, "w+") or die ("cannot open $filename");
$fout = fwrite ($fd, $this_box_save_news);
fclose($fd);

lets say i input <?php echo 'HELLO WORLD'; ?>

the output wouldnt show as the input shown above is chnaged on save. It actually changes to

<?php echo '/HELLO WORLD/'; ?>

and i get this error

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in d:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\tests\test_editor\pages\news.php on line 2

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end in d:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\tests\test_editor\pages\news.php on line 3

[planetsim]

$fd = fopen($filename_news, "r") or die ("cannot read $filename");
$read_file = fread($fd, filesize($filename_news));

echo "<form name='form1' action='save_news.php' method='post'>";
echo '<textarea cols="80" rows="8" name="txt_box_news">'.$read_file.'</textarea>';
echo '<input type="submit" name="submit" value="save">';
echo '</form>';

try this

$fd = fopen($filename_news, "r") or die ("cannot read $filename");
$read_file = fread($fd, filesize($filename_news));

$read_file = stripslashes($read_file);

echo "<form name='form1' action='save_news.php' method='post'>";
echo '<textarea cols="80" rows="8" name="txt_box_news">'.$read_file.'</textarea>';
echo '<input type="submit" name="submit" value="save">';
echo '</form>';

[simwiz]

Nope still gives error message - >

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/eatmycherry.com/httpdocs/php/pages/news.php on line 2

Parse error: parse error in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/eatmycherry.com/httpdocs/php/pages/news.php on line 4

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I typed this into txt box ->->

<?php
print ('hello world');

?>

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saved as ->->->

<?php
print (\'hello world\');

?>

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any ideas ? your help wpuld be great, thank you

[laserlight]

you need to use stripslashes() as the uploaded data has been escaped.

[simwiz]

Should i put a strip slash in the save part ??

EDIT -

<?php
$filename_news = "pages/news.php";
$fd = fopen($filename_news, "r") or die ("cannot read $filename");
$read_file = fread($fd, filesize($filename_news));

$read_file = stripslashes($read_file);

echo "<form name='form1' action='save.php' method='post'>";
echo '<textarea cols="80" rows="8" name="txt_box_news">'.$read_file.'</textarea>';
echo '<input type="submit" name="submit" value="save">';
echo '</form>';

?>

SAVE -

<?php

$this_box_save_news = $_POST['txt_box_news'];
$filename_news = "pages/news.php";

$fd= fopen($filename_news, "w+") or die ("cannot open $filename");
$fout = fwrite ($fd, $this_box_save_news);
fclose($fd);

?>

where abouts just before the close ? thanks for the help