Edit a text file in a text box

[Anon]

How can i edit a text file on a text box on a webpage???

Accutally the file has links in it and i just want to edit it from a webpage rather than uploading the file again. I know its possible..

Can someone tell me the code because it sure its not hard for you guys or refer me a tutorial or something

thanks in advance

[Anon]

You have to make 2 sections...

The first, showing the content of the file:
1. Open the file
2. Use htmlentities() to convert any "special" character to &...; This way, "<" and ">" tags will be converted and you won't have trouble with the textarea
3. "Echo" the content of the file (modified).
Ex:
<TEXTAREA NAME="file" ...>
<? echo $file_content; ?>
</TEXTAREA>
Here, the file content is shown in a textarea text zone. So, a form will send datas to the secong section.

The second section, will get the datas sent by the form of the first section.
1. Use stripslashes to remove \" \' \, etc.
2. Convert &...; to "special" characters using this code:
$trans = get_html_transition_table(HTMLENTITIES);
$trans = array_flip ($trans);
$file_content = strtr ($file_content, $trans);
where $file_content is the content of the file.
3. Open the file and put the new code in it.

It should work!

Hub. Lem.

[Anon]

Can you please write the code that i can put in the php file..

The file that i want to edit is called links.txt

[Anon]

The first section...
<?
$fp = fopen("the_file.txt", "r+");
$file_content = htmlentities($file_content);
fclose($fp);
?>
<FORM ACTION="second_section.php3" METHOD=POST>
<TEXTAREA NAME="file_content" COLS=80 ROWS=20 WRAP=VERTICAL>
<? echo $file_content; ?>
</TEXTAREA>
</FORM>

The second section...
<?
$translation_table = get_html_transition_table(HTMLENTITIES);
$translation_table = array_flip ($translation_table);
$file_content = strtr ($file_content, $translation_table);
$fp = fopen("the_file.txt", "w+"); // The w+ is extremely important
fputs($fp$, $file_content);
fclose($fp);
?>

Any bug?

Hub. Lem.

[Anon]

Nop it doesn't works. On the first section all I recieve is a text box nothing in it...

[Anon]

I made a small mistake...

<?
$fp = fopen("the_file.txt", "r+");
$file_content = fread($fp, filesize("the_file.txt"));
$file_content = htmlentities($file_content);
fclose($fp);
?>
<FORM ACTION="second_section.php3" METHOD=POST>
<TEXTAREA NAME="file_content" COLS=80 ROWS=20 WRAP=VERTICAL>
<? echo $file_content; ?>
</TEXTAREA>
</FORM>

The second section...
<?
$translation_table = get_html_transition_table(HTMLENTITIES);
$translation_table = array_flip ($translation_table);
$file_content = strtr ($file_content, $translation_table);
$fp = fopen("the_file.txt", "w+"); // The w+ is extremely important
fputs($fp$, $file_content);
fclose($fp);
?>

[Anon]

Ok I can see the file content in a text box.
🙂

Now how can i edit..

do i need to add a submit button or something