I’m on a new path to get better at PHP\/MySQL, now that we’ve got a new programmer on staff, and I can abuse him as a resource. A cool snipped for poor-man’s content management is what I came up with today. If you have a text file that a user wants to edit, but also wants to strip the pesky slashes from, and interpret carriage returns when writing the file, here’s what I came up with. It also prints the file’s modification date as an “Updated last” line:<\/p>\n
<?
\n\/\/Declare the session variable value
\nsession_start();
\n\/\/declare the report variable
\nif(isset($_POST[‘report’]))
\n{
\n$report = str_replace("\\r\\n", "<br>", $_POST[‘report’]);<\/p>\n
\/\/declare and open the file for writing
\n$myfile = "myfile.txt";
\n$fh = fopen($myfile, ‘w’) or die("can’t open file");<\/p>\n
\/\/write the form data to the report
\nfwrite($fh, (stripslashes($report)));
\nfclose($fh);
\n}
\n?>\n<\/p>\n
Then we have the printed text, as well as the form, rolled into one file:<\/p>\n
<html>
\n<body>
\n<p>
\n<? \t\techo date( "F d\\, Y", filemtime(‘myfile.txt’) )." – Last updated"; \t?>
\n<\/p><\/p>\n
<p>
\n<? include(‘myfile.txt’); ?>
\n<\/p><\/p>\n
<p>Write the daily report:<br><\/p>\n
<form action="<? echo $PHP_SELF ?>" method="post" name="report">
\n<textarea name="report" rows="9" cols="94"><\/textarea><br>
\n<input type="submit" name="submitButtonName">
\n<\/form>
\n<\/body>
\n|<\/html><\/p>\n
PHP kicks bum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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