Test System

NZ_Kiwis

I've got a live site which I also want to allow people (admin's) to run a test system on.

Currently my page has a function which will be like

echo PrintResults();

Like this but if a user has logged into the test form (setting a cookie or something) it will do this..

if ($_COOKIE['TEST'] == "True"){
echo PrintTestResults();
} else {
echo PrintResults();
}

Easy as, however when I publish the site I want to submit another form which will write all the stuff from PrintTestResults function page to the function page which has PrintResults in it.

My questions are

Would this be quicker than uploading via FTP?
How to I write the contents from one page to another?

Any other thoughts on this are welcome :-)

yamarc

Mind explaining a bit further?

NZ_Kiwis

Well depending on a cookie i'll echo one of two functions, once the "test" function is working correctly I'll copy all the stuff from one file to another....

yamarc

Yeah, I got that much lol.

I meant... Are you generating HTML files or something? Are you using a database and a dynamic template page in PHP to present those values from the database? If you're using files, do you want to copy everything the file is showing or just from line x to line y?

NZ_Kiwis

Yeah, I have a HTML template (viewmypage.php), from there is displays the data from within the function (on a sperate php file within my webserver called development_PrintResults.php). When I decide to "publish" my test file (development_PrintResults.php) to will copy everything form there to (PrintPrints.php) here, all lines. My main viewmypage.php will not change at all.

yamarc

How about delete and copy file?

delete('PrintResults.php');
copy('development_PrintResults.php', 'PrintResults.php');

Or maybe I misunderstood?

NZ_Kiwis

I don't want to delete it though, because after this i'll be doing more improvments etc etc

yamarc

Can you try to explain a bit better and more in-depth of the situation you want to achieve?

More than 3 lines as they appear not to be enough