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update html page with PHP

Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 1:24 am
by tony79``
Hello, I am writing a simple script that will update the text on a website.

My script has to parts.
a. It will find the section(s) in the html file that needs to be updated by reading the file into a string and finding certain tags (e.g. <!--startedit001--> <!--endedit001-->). Once the editable text is captured in a variable, it is displayed in the 'value' section of an html text field.

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<?php
$filelocation = "../index2.html";
$startedit001 = "<!--starteditsection001-->";
$endedit001 = "<!--endeditsection001-->";

###########################################
//open file and read into a string
$htmlblog = file_get_contents($filelocation);

//get position of start and end tags
$pos1 = strpos($htmlblog, $startedit001);
$pos2 = strpos($htmlblog, $endedit001);

//get selected content and store it in a variable
$contentsize = $pos2 - $pos1;
$content = substr($htmlblog, $pos1, $contentsize);

//strip html tags and print
$fcontent = strip_tags($content, '<BR><B><U><I><Ol><UL><LI><A>');
$text = trim($fcontent);
echo preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $text);
?>
b. In the second part the user then will make the necessary changes to the text and submit the form.

This is where I'm stuck. I want to use a template file and I want to add the modified text onto it. The ideal thing to do would be to have a variable in the template file that would get replaced by the contents of the form.

I tried putting a small php script just with the print $formresult; statement in the template file, store the template code in a variable with $changedhtmlfile = file_get_contents() and re-write the html file to be edited with the updated $changeedhtmlfile string. But it doesn't work.

I could use the same process I used in the first part. Insert two comment tags and replace the text in between, but I don't know if that's the best way to do it. I figure there's gotta be a way I can just tell the script where in the template I want to insert the text.

This is my first php script, so please Please, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Tony

Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 3:06 am
by Grim...
I'd stick to doing it the way you are doing it.
What's stopping you?