Find and Replace question

OCSupertones

I have three pages an index page that takes form info and sends it to final.php. final.php is supposed to look at test.php and change the info in test.php

index.php

<html>
<head>
<title>Batch File Content Find and Replace </title>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<form method="post" action="final.php">

Text to replace: <input name="find" size="40">
<br><BR>
Replacement text: <input name="replace" size="40">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go!">
</form>
</head>
</html>

final.php

<?php

// Sets location to search
$location = 'test.php';
// The string to replace
$find = $_POST['find'];
// The string that replaces $find
$replace = $_POST['replace'];
// Runs through text to replace $find
$output = str_replace($find , $replace , $location);
// Display the output of what happened
print "<br>location: " . $location . "<br>";
print "find: " . $find. "<br>";
print "replace: " . $replace. "<br>";
echo $output;

?>

test.php

ab abcd ef efgh

Can you see a reason why this wouldn't work?

I'm sure it is my $location variable in the final.php but can't seem to figure it out.

Thanks,

Brandon

frost110

This isn't an absurd joke is it?

<?php
// File to search for
$location = "test.php";

// Grabs the data to search 
$file = file_get_contents($location);

// The string to replace
$find = $_POST['find'];

// The string that replaces $find
$replace = $_POST['replace'];

// Runs through text to replace $find
$output = str_replace($find , $replace , $file);

// Display the output of what happened
print "<br>location: " . $location . "<br>";
print "find: " . $find. "<br>";
print "replace: " . $replace. "<br>";
echo $output; 
?>

--FrosT

OCSupertones

If it was funny, feel free to laugh. When you're done, try to help a PHP newbie.

frost110

I had a good laugh, but I did help you did I not?

--FrosT

OCSupertones

Are we done wasting time? I appreciate the thread bumps, but a non-rhetorical answer would be better.

OCSupertones

Ahhh...you did, I thought you were quoting my code.

I'll check out your code.

Thanks!

frost110

lol

Thanks for the second good laugh of my day!

--FrosT