saving file to a folder on the server

dmikester1

I am working on a control panel for a hosting site. I am working on a script to save out a file to whatever folder you are in. I have a great script to graphically show the working directory and it will go into folders when you click on them. Now, I have a link to create a file which pops up a window with a basic file editor to type in content and a filename. I can't get it to save. Could someone help me?
Thanks
Mike

<? echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?".">"; ?>
<!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" xml:lang="en" lang=
"en">
<head>
<title>Simple File Editor</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
<!--
function checkIfEmpty(filename) {
var result = true;
var message = "";
if(filename == "") {
 message = "Please type a name for the file(including extension)";
popupText(message);
result = false;
}
else {
 message = filename;
 popupText(result);
}
return result;
}

function popupText(message) {
document.getElementById('hidden').innerHTML = message;
document.getElementById('hidden').style.display = "block";
}

-->
//]]>
</script>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$filedir = $_GET["value"];
$cwd = getcwd();
if($filedir == "")
{
	$filedir = ".";
	$cwd = $cwd."/";
}else{
	$cwd = $cwd."/".$filedir; // concat paths
	//$cwd = substr($cwd, 0, -1); // remove the last /
}
echo $cwd;

if(is_readable($filedir)) //check the get "value" is readable
{
?>
	<h1>Currently in <span class="red"><?php echo $cwd; ?></span></h1>
	<form action="<?=$PHP_SELF?>" method="post">
	<div align="center">
	<textarea rows="30" cols="80" style="border: 1px solid #666666;" name="updatedfile">
	</textarea></div>
	<br />

<div id="center">Name of file: <input type="text" name="filename" id="filename" /><br /><div id="hidden"></div>
<input type="submit" name="save" id="save" value="Save Changes" onclick="return checkIfEmpty(document.getElementById('filename').value)">
<?php
if (isset($_POST['save']))
{  //if the "save" button was clicked
	$file=$_POST['filename'];
	$file = $cwd.$file;
	//chdir($cwd);
	if (is_writable($file))
	{
		$data_to_save = $_POST["updatedfile"];
		$data_to_save = eregi_replace("<END-TA-DO-NOT-EDIT>", "</textarea>", $data_to_save);

		$file2save = fopen($file, "w+");
		if (fwrite($file2save,$data_to_save))
		{
			//echo "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0;URL=MikesFileEditor.php'>";
			echo "file saved!";
			//Close file
			fclose($file2save);
		}else {
			//If write fails show failure page
			echo "file not saved!";
			//Close file
			fclose($file2save);
		}
	}else {
		echo "not writable!";
	}
}
}
?>
</input>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

halojoy

well,
you 'cant get it to save'

what can you get?
what happens that make you know you 'cant get it to save'

Anything you might see on your screen while using full debugging:
error_reporting ( E_ALL );
may be helpful.

Because most of us ( maybe noone ) will bother to run your script
and see what you see.

Regards

dmikester1

Sorry for being cryptic. It would refresh and say "not writable!" But I got that figured out. I found out the "is_writable" command actually checks if the file exists and I was creating the file after that check. So I just moved the line where I created the file above that check and now it is working.

However, it is only saving in the home directory no matter if I go into a directory or not. I would like it to save in whatever directory I am currently in. I am passing along the name of the directory and even echoing it out in the file editor window correctly. But when I hit save and echo out where it saved to, the variable somehow changes back to the home directory.

Here is my current code:

<?php
$filedir = $_GET["value"];
$cwd = getcwd();
if($filedir == "")
{
	$filedir = ".";
	$cwd = $cwd."/";
}else{
	$cwd = $cwd."/".$filedir; // concat paths
	echo $cwd;
}


if(is_readable($filedir)) //check the get "value" is readable
{
?>
</div>
	<h1>Currently in <span class="red"><?php echo $cwd; ?></span></h1>
	<form method="POST"  action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
	<div class="center">
	<textarea rows="30" cols="80" style="border: 1px solid #666666;" name="updatedfile">
	</textarea><br /></div>


<div class="center">Name of file: <input type="text" name="filename" id="filename" /><br /><div id="hidden"></div>
<input type="submit" name="save" id="save" value="Save Changes" onclick="return checkIfEmpty(document.getElementById('filename').value)" />
<?php
if (isset($_POST['save']))
{  //if the "save" button was clicked
	$file=$_POST['filename'];
	$file = $cwd.$file;
	echo "$cwd is: ".$cwd;
	$file2save = fopen($file, "w+");
	if (is_writable($file))
	{
		$data_to_save = $_POST["updatedfile"];
		$data_to_save = eregi_replace("<END-TA-DO-NOT-EDIT>", "</textarea>", $data_to_save);


		if (fwrite($file2save,$data_to_save))
		{
			//echo "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0;URL=MikesFileEditor.php'>";
			echo "file saved!";
			//Close file
			fclose($file2save);
		}else {
			//If write fails show failure page
			echo "file not saved!";
			//Close file
			fclose($file2save);
		}
	}else {
		echo "not writable!";
	}
}
}
?>

Thanks
Mike

dmikester1

So I'm able to save to the "home" folder, but I can't save to any folders inside the "home" folder. It just saves to the "home" folder everytime. Anyone know how I can solve this?
Thanks
Mike