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DLS

Hey, I need help, I am working on something, its in c++ and there is part that I have to use PHP well I do not really have time to learn PHP I just want the PHP script already :glare:

here is a picture (example):

[ATTACH]3626[/ATTACH]

[ http://dlsproject.freehostia.com/example.gif ]

its only HTML code source, no PHP
the point of it you type source code (more than 1 line) than it is like uploading/creating it to a text file, the most of the source codes I found are converting for example this:
line1
line2
line3
to:
line1line2line3
it does not saving it like it is, I want it like to replace file with the new source code like notepad I hope you understand what I mean thanx 🙂

[ The Page: http://blackthink.110mb.com/index.php ]

bradgrafelman

DLS wrote:
I do not really have time to learn PHP I just want the PHP script already

You may have come to the wrong place then; most of the people here help others learn PHP, rather than hand out scripts to people.

DLS wrote:
it does not saving it like it is

Show us the code you have so far.

DLS

bradgrafelman;10882220 wrote:
You may have come to the wrong place then; most of the people here help others learn PHP, rather than hand out scripts to people.

Show us the code you have so far.

---Start---
<html dir="ltr">
<head>
<title>Controller</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="black" spellcheck="false">
<p> </p>
<form action="index.php" method="post">
<pre><font color="#ffffff"> Enter Source:</font></pre>
<pre><br /> <textarea wrap="Virtual" rows="30" cols="130" name="Source"><? echo $Source; ?> </textarea><br /> <br /> <input type="submit" value="Sumbit" /></pre>
</form>
<hr />
</body>
</html>
---End---
you can also go to my website [ The Page: http://blackthink.110mb.com/index.php ]
and press view code source you will see the same thing it, I hope you can help me..

Krik

May need a bit more from you.

Where is th PHP that is generating the $Source variable. That will give us a better idea how to respond.

I am guessing that the code that gerenats the $Source is striping the \n and/or \r. It is likely being done with a preg_replace() function or a str_replace() function using regular expressions (regex).

DLS

I could not understand a word..I want it to be like notepad you type a few lines press Submit and its saving it into a text file I saw a few scripts like that but they are always turning the lines you fill into one line like this (again):
line1
line2
line3
than it is saving it to: line1line2line3
I do not want it to do that, can you just please post the code source itself
I cant understand anything..

Weedpacket

Losing the nonstandard "wrap" attribute from the textarea element may help. Failing that we need to see what you're doing to save it.

DLS

Weedpacket;10882296 wrote:
Losing the nonstandard "wrap" attribute from the textarea element may help. Failing that we need to see what you're doing to save it.

I just asked for a simple script what is the problem? is it so to understand it...
I just want that somebody post the source code I know ms-dos batch, visual basic and c++ I know a little bit php so I asking for the script that I will understand how it works by the script so please post it already

DLS

Krik;10882284 wrote:
May need a bit more from you.

Where is th PHP that is generating the $Source variable. That will give us a better idea how to respond.

I am guessing that the code that gerenats the $Source is striping the \n and/or \r. It is likely being done with a preg_replace() function or a str_replace() function using regular expressions (regex).

Weedpacket

See bradgrafelman's post above.

Presumably you already have some PHP code that is saving the file. Otherwise you won't come here saying that it's saving the file incorrectly. Show us that. There's no point us throwing something at you only for you to come back with "that's what I tried and it doesn't work".

DLS wrote:
I just asked for a simple script what is the problem? is it so to understand it...
I just want that somebody post the source code I know ms-dos batch, visual basic and c++ I know a little bit php so I asking for the script that I will understand how it works by the script

You won't learn anything by just cut-and-pasting someone else's code. If you want examples, the PHP manual has plenty.

so please post it already

You're not paying us enough to do your work for you and put up with your attitude at the same time.

Krik

We aren't trying to be dense. Many times we can not answer a question as we have too little of the information to do so. Think of it as a massive painting all you have shown us is some little green 1 inch by 1 inch area and you what us to repaint a 1 foot by 1 foot area. Now, one of us has guessed it is a tree the other grass and another a mossy rock. If it is green shingles on the roof of a cabin what we paint will be completely out of place. So we need more information.

The process for a form is like such. User enters and submits info. That info then has to be sent so some processing script somewhere or it just goes into oblivion.

That script can and does dictiate every last detail of what happens to that data. And can be very lengthy depending on several factors.

It is a good guess that you have some security in place to stop hackers from hijacking your site. And it is likely that security is in that processing script and is stiping out the line breaks.

As well there will be srcipt that pulls that file from the server and displays it and it as well could have the errant srcipt, but not as likely.

So to figure out how to fix the line breaks that are being striped out by your processing script we have asked to see it. Outside of seeing it, all we can do is suggest standard ways to finding were that script it is striping the line break.

And of course you understand that we can not write code to replace missing data.

NogDog

Methinks [man]nl2br/man may end up being the answer, but that assumes I've correctly guessed what the question is.

DLS

Krik;10882385 wrote:
We aren't trying to be dense. Many times we can not answer a question as we have too little of the information to do so. Think of it as a massive painting all you have shown us is some little green 1 inch by 1 inch area and you what us to repaint a 1 foot by 1 foot area. Now, one of us has guessed it is a tree the other grass and another a mossy rock. If it is green shingles on the roof of a cabin what we paint will be completely out of place. So we need more information.

The process for a form is like such. User enters and submits info. That info then has to be sent so some processing script somewhere or it just goes into oblivion.

That script can and does dictiate every last detail of what happens to that data. And can be very lengthy depending on several factors.

It is a good guess that you have some security in place to stop hackers from hijacking your site. And it is likely that security is in that processing script and is stiping out the line breaks.

As well there will be srcipt that pulls that file from the server and displays it and it as well could have the errant srcipt, but not as likely.

So to figure out how to fix the line breaks that are being striped out by your processing script we have asked to see it. Outside of seeing it, all we can do is suggest standard ways to finding were that script it is striping the line break.

And of course you understand that we can not write code to replace missing data.

hmm... that what I got so far:

[index.php]

<html dir="ltr">
<head>
<title>Controller</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="black" spellcheck="false">
<p> </p>
<form action="submit.php" method="post">
<pre><font color="#ffffff"> Enter Source:</font></pre>
<pre><br /> <textarea wrap="Virtual" rows="30" cols="130" name="Source"><? echo $Source; ?> </textarea><br /> <br /> <input type="submit" value="Sumbit" /></pre>
</form>
<hr />
</body>
</html>

[submit.php]

<?php echo $_POST["Source"]; ?>

I do not want it to create it into text file its not important right now
the important thing is the line breaks, so what do you think? what am I doing wrong?

Stryker250

Printing text that was posted from a text area onto screen is shown completely different to how it shows when it is saved to a text file.

Text posted from a text area is in plain text format, therefore the browser can't parse it the same way as it was shown in the text area. It needs to be formatted to html. What NogDog suggested will work for that. The nl2br function takes plain text and converts all new lines to br tags so that the text shows up correctly on screen.

Where as if you were to write the posted text to a file, you will not need to format it because it will be stored in the file the same way it is shown in the text area.

$file = 'filename.txt'; //put the correct filename and proper path
$file_data = $_POST['Source']; //The post data for the text

$fo = fopen($file, 'w');
fwrite($fo, $file_data);
fclose($fo);

You can't compare plain text and text/html directly. They both display differently in a browser.

Krik

Ok, now I get the sense that there is no processing script. I guess I (we) assumed there was one as you had the "$Source" variable in that HTML segement you posted.

Now I am wishing that link you posted earlier worked so I could get a sense of what your doing.

But I think I can give you something to get you started. When you submit that form. It places the data in a super global (you may already know that). To retrieve its value you would use $POST['Source'] and if you wish to make a simple variable out of that you would

$Source = $_POST['Source'];

that variable can then be called inside any other script or HTML.

Now in your case they are submiting HTML and if you let it stay as HTML it may not display as just text. So we need to convert all the HTML opening and closing tags to there HTML character entities.

$Source = htmlentities($_POST['Source']);

I do not belive that will strip the line breaks. But as I have not had to deal with a user submiting HTML via a form I will yield to the other gentelmen and ladies here who would know.

Of course you will not want to just let that script be passed unchecked for hacking attemps. If you can do that with C++ go ahead, otherwise there is other ways in PHP but as you would need to let some things through I believe, as I said above, it would be best if I yield to others with more experience in that.

If you need a bit more information I would recommend looking up the "htmlentities()" function on php.net. It has some examples and user input as well as some alternatives you may want to explore.

Weedpacket

If this is simply being output to the screen within an HTML page then it will be formatted as HTML. HTML doesn't do linebreaks, so - as NogDog guessed, nl2br() would add HTML <br> elements so that it would be formatted with linebreaks. An alternative would be to echo it within a <pre> element so that all preformatted whitespace is preserved.

But how it looks rendered as HTML in a browser has only a vague bearing on what bytes would get written to a text file.