How do I edit variables through a form?

[Anon]

Ok, I have a PHP script called config.php, the script has a whole list of variables to be displayed on another PHP script called index.php. Now what I want to do is put a form on index.php to edit those variables in config.php. How do I do that?

Thanks!

[warmwind]

Okay, if I understand your prob correctly:

Put the variable definitions in a file - call it vars.inc

<?php
$trucks = 26;
$bikes = 12;
$usebydate = "2002-06-30";
?>

index.php AND config.php both have:
include("vars.inc");
.. at the top ..

in index.php, form elements will oook like this:
<input type="text" name="trucks" value="<?php echo $trucks; ?>">

index.php TARGETS store.php, which takes the variables and re-writes vars.inc

Simple.

OR, you could get store.php to parse the entire config.php and use regexs to alter the values 🙂 But how yuck is that!

[Anon]

Ok, so which file is the form supposed to be pointing to for the action element?

<form action="????" method="POST">

[warmwind]

Kuraden wrote:

Ok, so which file is the form supposed to be pointing to for the action element?

<form action="????" method="POST">

store.php

This takes the variables and creates the include file anew 🙂

So you have:

vars.inc ------------------
| |
| |
config.php index.php
|
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store.php CREATES vars.inc

[Anon]

Wait a sec...what do I put in store.php?