edittag in PHP?

[ekitel]

I like this simple perl script called edittag (http://www.thebilberry.com/greg/edittag/)

I would like to rewrite with PHP and add some more features, so I'm wondering if anyone might want to tell me what basic methods I'd need to make something like this

basically it parses HTML files that have editable areas delineated by special tags <edittag></ediiag> it opens the HTML file, allows the user to edit the content of the area in a textarea and then submit changes and save the file

thanks in advance!
EK

[ekitel]

never mind... I figured something out, I'll post the code in the critique forum