[Resolved] problem inserting file contents into textbox

[eriksmoen]

anybody got any good ideas for inserting the entire contents of a file into a <textarea> box??? these files will contain html and php so tags and parenthesis and quotes and all that stuff will most likely be included... currently, i have it using javascript, and it's completely messing up...

here's some example code from it...

<?
$infile = "";
if(isset($_GET['path'])){ $infile = $_GET['path']; }
$inToTextarea = "";
$in_file = file($infile);
foreach($in_file as $line_num => $line){
	$inToTextarea .= $line."\n";
}
?>
<script language="javascript">
function InsertIntoTextBox(){
	document.editfileform.edittext.value='<?=stripslashes($inToTextarea)?>';
	document.editfileform.edittext.focus();
}
</script>

any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance...

btw... i've tried stripslashes and addslashes and stuff...

[drew010]

<?
$infile = "";
if(isset($GET['path'])){ $infile = $GET['path']; }
$inToTextarea = "";
$in_file = file_get_contents($infile);
$in_file = htmlspecialchars($in_file);

?>

and then wherever you have your textarea in html...

<textarea name="whatever" rows=x cols=y><?php echo $in_file; ?></textarea>

[eriksmoen]

thanks for the reply drew, but i finally got it figured out... i didn't want to use htmlspecialchars because i wanted the users to be able to edit their code in-line... so i had php create a random unique variable that replaced any "</textarea>" tags in the code. once loaded, javascript searches through it and converts those random unique variables back to </textarea>.