need advice on text file

bachok83

hi experts...
i'm new here..
i need some advices here.

there are 2 questions that i wanna ask for help.

how would you recommend me to use text file to store a couple of news. These news will be retrieved and put in the main page (just like phpnuke). I dont wanna use database, i just wanna use text file.
I have a problem with form text post. When i include some text which contains single quote (') or double quotes (""), it'll add some sort of \" then, when i resend the text, the \" will double itself like \\" then if i resend, the thing will double again.. it's really annoying..

thanks for anybody's help. really apreciate your time.

mhalloran

1) alright, to figure out how to write and read to/from a text file, check out fopen , fread and fwrite

2) Slashes are added to quotes when you pass the data from one page to another. To remove it you have to user stripslashes()

$string= stripslashes($string);

actually, stripslashes doesn't get rid of the double quotes but this should remove both of them.

$string = preg_replace("/['\"]/", "", $string);

bachok83

thx for you reply mhalloran,

anyway i know how to open file, read and stuff.. but i wanna know some suggestions how would i do that.. put all the news in one text file? or put all the topics and id number in one file and have the text in the other file... or something else... coz i dont know what's the best solution for that...

for ques # 2.. i'll try your solution.. thanks again...

bachok83

mhalloran,
your stripslashes() does work for both ' and ""

however, i got trouble for <input type=text> it seems like it doesnt like more than one word.. after a word, it will strip out the rest words... what should i do?

thanks again man...

gosh.. this forum is da best... i guess i'll hang out here more often then.... love this forum...

bachok83

and one more question,

how do i make the text i send, say like this

"bla bla balalalal ballaalla balal bla balaa blaaa ball abal bbabab lala bba lalala.

balal ababab lala hahaha lalal haha ll."

it will auto matically detect as

"bla bla balalalal ballaalla balal bla balaa blaaa ball abal bbabab lala bba lalala.
<br ><br >
balal ababab lala hahaha lalal haha ll."

thanks in advance

devinemke

nl2br

bachok83

thanks devinemke,

TheDefender

Originally posted by bachok83
however, i got trouble for <input type=text> it seems like it doesnt like more than one word.. after a word, it will strip out the rest words... what should i do?

What exactly do you mean by this? Can you elaborate on this a little bit please?

bachok83

nevermind TheDefender,
i figured how to make that thing work.. thanks anyway...

however, can you/anyone else help me with nl2br,

it works just fine, but when i hit button review twice, it'll add more <br >

this is the code

        $title = stripslashes($title);         

        $message = stripslashes($message);
        $message = nl2br($message);

    echo "<table class=table align=\"center\"><tr><td><b>Preview:</b><br>";
    echo "<p class=title>$title</p>";
    echo "$message</td></tr></table>";      

    echo "<br><br><table border=0><tr><td>Title:</td><td>
    <form METHOD=\"post\" ACTION=\"preview.php\">
    <TEXTAREA NAME=\"title\" COLS=50 rows=1 wrap=virtual>$title</TEXTAREA>
    </td></tr><tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
    <tr><td valign=top>Message:</td><td>
    <TEXTAREA NAME=\"message\" COLS=50 ROWS=15 WRAP=virtual>$message</TEXTAREA>
    <input type=hidden name=type value=1>
    <br><INPUT TYPE=\"submit\" NAME=\"submit\" VALUE=\"Preview\">
    </td></tr></table>";

devinemke

that's because you keep resubmitting the message with the line breaks. see revised code below:

$title = stripslashes($title);
$message = stripslashes($message);

echo '
<table class=table align="center"><tr><td><b>Preview:</b><br>
<p class=title>' . $title . '</p>' . nl2br($message) . '</td></tr></table>

<br><br><table border=0><tr><td>Title:</td><td>
<form METHOD="post" ACTION="preview.php">
<TEXTAREA NAME="title" COLS=50 rows=1 wrap=virtual>' . $title . '</TEXTAREA>
</td></tr><tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>Message:</td><td>
<TEXTAREA NAME="message" COLS=50 ROWS=15 WRAP=virtual>' . $message . '</TEXTAREA>
<input type=hidden name=type value=1>
<br><INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="submit" VALUE="Preview">
</td></tr></table>
';

bachok83

oo yeah, you are right...
i'm a fool.. sorry for my foolisheness...

thank you very much.... u helped me a lot