Stripslashes ?

colin71

Hello,

I am working on a Flash/PHP content management system script that recieves variables from a flash form, and writes them with a PHP script to :

1) a textfile that a flash movie pulls from
2) separate static HTML docs for each variable

The variables are textfields which contain some basic HTML-formatted text, for website sections. The main problem I am having is that whenever there is a single or double quote in my textfields (i.e. in a tag), I get a backslash in my published files. How do I get rid of them ? I know I probably have to use the stripslashes command, but I am not sure of the proper syntax and usage. Here is the code so far :

$string = "news=$news&about=$about&services=$services&process=$process&technology=$technogy&portfolio=$portfolio&contact=$contact";
$fp = fopen("update.txt","w+");
fputs($fp,$string); fclose($fp);

$fp = fopen("news.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$news); fclose($fp);

$fp = fopen("about.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$about); fclose($fp);

$fp = fopen("services.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$services); fclose($fp);

$fp = fopen("process.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$process); fclose($fp);

$fp = fopen("technology.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$technology); fclose($fp);

$fp = fopen("portfolio.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$portfolio); fclose($fp);

$fp = fopen("contact.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$contact); fclose($fp);

Also Flash likes the font size tag to be the point size of the font, so some of my text is tagged with . How do I change that for the HTML docs so it is not so unsightly ? Is there a GREP equivalent in PHP ? How would I implement ?

TIA,
Colin

maxpup979

first--
$newstring=stripslashes($oldstring);

the second part--this is probably more work than you need....but what you can do is use CSS on the html side (and control it through PHP) and then you can use the point size on flash, and you still have one central area that controls it--

but if you need a quick and dirty fix, you could just write a quick programs that opens a file, does a str_replace (or eregi_replace if needed) and writes the file back. Then through that code into a file/dir reading program, and you have a quick and dirty fix. Just be sure to back things up first. that way if something goes wrong, you can try again safely

colin71

how would I convert carriage returns in my fields to tags for the HTML docs ? I have a basic version working with the stripslashes command, now the only issue is the formatting (i.e. I have to say on the textfiles for the Flash to display it properly, but on the HTML docs that should probably be more like . That and the line breaks. Also how would I add some extra code into the the HTML docs that this script publishes (i.e. say I want each page to also include the code : <A HREF="http://www.fenwaycommunications.com/index.html"> ?

colin71

Thanks for your help !! It works, except for the formatting.... Where would I put the replace command to change the font size tags and how would I convert carriage returns to 's ?

$string = "news=$news&about=$about&services=$services&process=$process&technology=$technogy&portfolio=$portfolio&contact=$contact";
$fp = fopen("update.txt","w+");
$htmlstring = stripslashes ($string);
fputs($fp,$newstring); fclose($fp);

$htmlnews = stripslashes ($news);
$fp = fopen("news.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$htmlnews); fclose($fp);

$htmlabout = stripslashes ($about);
$fp = fopen("about.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$htmlabout); fclose($fp);

$htmlservices = stripslashes ($services);
$fp = fopen("services.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$htmlservices); fclose($fp);

$htmlprocess = stripslashes ($process);
$fp = fopen("process.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$htmlprocess); fclose($fp);

$htmltechnology = stripslashes ($technology);
$fp = fopen("technology.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$htmltechnology); fclose($fp);

$htmlportfolio = stripslashes ($portfolio);
$fp = fopen("portfolio.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$htmlportfolio); fclose($fp);

$htmlcontact = stripslashes ($contact);
$fp = fopen("contact.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$htmlcontact); fclose($fp);

maxpup979

I would recommend NOT using font tags at all---go with CSS, where you can define text size by point (besides, according to http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/graphics.html,
the font tag is deprecated).

to convert the newline to , look at either nl2br() in string functions in the manual, or just do a string replace, based on \n, or \r\n etc...whatever your system is using

colin71

ok, I got the nl2br working, but I still need to implement the str_replace. Unfortunately, flash only supports basic HTML, and it seems the FONT tag is the only way to make my header text bigger (http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/htmltext.htm).

So I basically need to search for "" and replace it with "" or "<H3>", or something like that in my HTML docs. here is what I have with the nl2br in place :

$string = "news=$news&about=$about&services=$services&process=$process&technology=$technology&portfolio=$portfolio&contact=$contact";
$fp = fopen("update.txt","w+");
$htmlstring = stripslashes ($string);
fputs($fp,$htmlstring); fclose($fp);

$htmlnews = stripslashes ($news);
$htmlnewsbr = nl2br($htmlnews);
$fp = fopen("news.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$htmlnewsbr); fclose($fp);

$htmlabout = stripslashes ($about);
$htmlaboutbr = nl2br($htmlabout);
$fp = fopen("about.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$htmlaboutbr); fclose($fp);

$htmlservices = stripslashes ($services);
$htmlservicesbr = nl2br($htmlservices);
$fp = fopen("services.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$htmlservicesbr); fclose($fp);

$htmlprocess = stripslashes ($process);
$htmlprocessbr = nl2br($htmlprocesss);
$fp = fopen("process.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$htmlprocessbr); fclose($fp);

$htmltechnology = stripslashes ($technology);
$htmltechnologybr = nl2br($htmltechnology);
$fp = fopen("technology.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$htmltechnologybr); fclose($fp);

$htmlportfolio = stripslashes ($portfolio);
$htmlportfoliobr = nl2br($htmlportfolio);
$fp = fopen("portfolio.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$htmlportfoliobr); fclose($fp);

$htmlcontact = stripslashes ($contact);
$htmlcontactbr = nl2br($htmlcontact);
$fp = fopen("contact.htm","w+");
fputs($fp,$htmlcontactbr); fclose($fp);

I tried $htmlcontactnew=str_replace($htmlcontactbr,"=15","=4"); but this created a document that only displays "=4".........

maxpup979

look up str_replace again...🙂
I think you have the oprder messed up. Try :

$newstring=str_replace("=15","=4",$source);

that will take every instance of =15 and replace it with =4 in string source

colin71

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colin71

ok, hmm I got it to work with the code you showed me, replacing '15' with '5' and '14' with '4'; however, I realized I need like to replace the whole tag : with , including the quotes, as I might want to use the number '15' in my text. Flash needs the quotes to understand the tag. Do I need to use special characters to refer to quotations and tag characters in PHP ?