[RESOLVED] Display .txt files on html page

melemel

I tried to ask this query a while ago but it didnt show up. Apologies if im double posting.
I would like to devise a method where a site owner can update their own site easily by uploading a text file (news.txt), which then displays within a set width iframe in the news.html page.
What would be the php code to do this? Its seems like it should be really simple but im a complete beginner at php!

What i'd like even more is to have a password protected page (or any page would do!), where the user can enter their new webpage content into a form, which then writes to the news.txt text file, and displays that new info on the news.html page (again in a scrolling iframe probably).
Am i making any sense? I have no idea if this is possible or not, but would really appreciate any pointers or maybe even code?😕
Thanks...
Mel

Supernovas

<?php

$fp = fopen("http://cerberus.vpsland.com/Highscore.txt", "r");
$data = "";

while(!feof($fp))
{
$data .= fgets($fp, 4096);
}

echo $data;

change the Highscore.txt url to yours and walla

melemel

Wow, thats brilliant - thanks very much. And i figured out how to chnage the font by adding this to the top:

$fp = fopen("news.txt", "r");
$data = "";

while(!feof($fp))
{
$data .= fgets($fp, 4096);
}

echo $data;

As for my other question.. Is there a way i can now build an html form, whose results are sent to my news.txt file? (thereby making a way of updating the site online from anywhere?)

Is it too complicated?

melemel

That's great! thanks a lot.

Is is now possible to make an html form and php code, whose results are sent and then overwrite the news.txt file? Would that be complicated?

Supernovas

It is possible with a post option and if you chmod the file right im not very good with php sorry 🙂

melemel

Thats ok, youve been a big help.

Does anyone else know how i can do this?

bradgrafelman

Couple of things, this code:

$fp = fopen("news.txt", "r"); 
$data = ""; 

while(!feof($fp)) 
{ 
$data .= fgets($fp, 4096); 
} 

echo $data;

could be replaced with simply:

readfile('news.txt');

Also, all you'd do is have a form with a textbox, and take the data from that textbox and overwrite the file using [man]fwrite/man.

melemel

Thanks bradgrafelman ,

So ive made a form that uses the code below to collect the new content and send it to my news.txt file. Then im using Supernovas code to display that file on my news webpage. Ive also found a little wysiwyg browser editor to format my text area into html. So im getting there ... a a confused roundabout way.(I'm not even sure where this code came from - i kind of cobbled it together with blind luck, a php book and plagiarism!)

<?php
$filename = 'news.txt';
$content = "$comments";
if (is_writable($filename)) {

  if (!$handle = fopen($filename, 'a')) {
     echo "Cannot open file ($filename)";
     exit;

}

// Write $content to our opened file.
if (fwrite($handle, $content) === FALSE) {
echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
exit;
}

echo "You have successfully written \"$content\" to the news page";

fclose($handle);

} else {
echo "The file $filename is not writable";
}
?>

However. All this code does is add to the file, when i really would like to overwrite it. How would i do this?

Randeh

Try replacing

fopen($filename, 'a')

with

fopen($filename, 'w')

http://uk.php.net/fopen

melemel

Thanks, that worked.
This is what i made.

http://www.hubcollective.org/mels/feedback.html

its very clumsy, but it will do the job once i integrate it into the site and tidy it all up. I wanted to get a more streamlined and basic non commercial browser based wysiwyg editor, but i couldnt find one. Is this the sort of thing that could be built with php? Or does anyone know of a simple script/download for one?

have to say, everyone here has been extremely helpful - it inspired me to learn php properly. watch this space!