Writing to php file

[Sharif]

I am trying to create an admin area without having any database connectivity to edit preferences. The admin page and its form will be on admin.php. And the preferences (in preferences.php) should be editable using the form. Sort of like in Invision Board's admin area. Lots of the settings are kept in a php file. How can I do this.

[pjleonhardt]

well... id suggest looking at the way invision boards do it and adapt it to your needs....

[tomwerner]

You may find storing your settings in an XML file might be useful (for ease of putting data in and out). Yesterday I found a rather crude but adequete for the job class to extract data from an XML file. It can be found at:

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse.html/package/1398.html

In case you don't know XML here is a sample of what it could look like:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<settings>
<name>administrator</name>
<email>[e-mail]</email>
<user>Me</user>
<password>ghtyekdf</password>
</settings>

If you don't know what XML is then I would have a look at WebMonkey's tutorial here:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/41/index1a.html?tw=authoring

If you don't want to go down this route then you need to read some of the filesystem functions in the PHP (www.php.net) manual including :
file()
fwrite()

If you need more help post back/private message/email me for help.