[RESOLVED] Copy Template

icm

Ok, I have a template (template.php) and I want it to be able to be copied to other file names e.g., doc.php

So doc.php is identical to template.php

What I want to have it a page on my site that you can write in a box say doc2

And it automatically copy the template file to doc2.php

Does that make sense?

Summarise: I want a box that when a word is typed into it, it duplicates the page template.php to the filename written in the box by the user.

All help would be highly appreciated.

etully

One way to do it is to read in the contents of template and use the fwrite command to create a new file called doc2.php.

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php

Note of warning there: Make sure you validate the user input before you create a file name based on what the user types into the box. That is a big security hole.

The other way to do it is to use the copy command http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.copy.php to make a duplicate of template.php and call it doc2.php

icm

<?php
$file = 'example.txt';
$newfile = 'example.txt.bak';

if (!copy($file, $newfile)) {
   echo "failed to copy $file...\n";
}
?>

Is the example given, how do i change this so that what ever is typed in the box, is the filename ($newfile)?

icm

(Validation Noted)

icm

i came up with this on my test server

<?php 

$input = $_POST['finam'];
$file = 'template.php';
$newfile = $input.'.php' ;

if (!copy($file, $newfile)) {
   echo "failed to copy $file...\n";}

echo "You have successfully created <a href='http://national-front.org.uk/$input.php'>http://national-front.org.uk/$input.php</a>"; ?>

icm

my form

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body><form action="copy.php" method="post">
Enter Filename: <input type="text" name="finam" size="30" />
<input type="submit" value="create" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

icm

and template

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
If you can see this then the template has be copied correctly. 
</body>

</html>

icm

Can anyone now guide me, on how to stop the user from overwriting a page that already exists,

eg, if i have a pages called asda.php and a user enters asda into the box, how do i make it so the page cannont be overwritten and displays an error message?

icm

i have done it!

thanks for your help etully! much appreciated