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newbie needing help with a form

Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 10:47 pm
by CU Coder
sorry for the newbie question, but i gotta start somewhere...

i am trying to write code where a person can edit a file via a form. the file does include html code in it. how can i get the textarea to write to the file without all the \" where i want just a "

here is my code

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<? if ($Submitted == true){
     $FileName = "scrollText.txt";
     $FilePointer = fopen($FileName, "w+");
     $Edit = $_POST['text'];
// the following line is my attempt at solving it, but i fail.
     $Edit = eregi_replace(""",'"',$Edit);
     fwrite($FilePointer, $_POST['text']);
     fclose($FilePointer);
     }
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html> ... blah blah blah 


    <form action="scrolledit.php" method="post">
      <div class="content">Scroller Contents: (html allowed)<br></div>
<input type="hidden" name="Submitted" value="true"> 	
    <div class="content">
<textarea rows="5" cols="40" name="text"> 
// this part simply reads the contents of the file
// and places it in the textarea so it can be edited 
  <?PHP
        $TheFile = "scrollText.txt";
        $Open = fopen($TheFile, "a");
        $Data = file($TheFile);
       
        for ($n = 0; $n < count($Data); $n++){
           $GetLine = explode("\t", $Data[$n]);
            print ("$GetLine[0] $GetLine[1]");
           }
        fclose($Open);
    ?> </textarea></div>
    <Input type="Submit" name="Submit" value="Submit!">
    
    </form>
... blah blah blah </html>
thanks in advance for your help. or if you can point me to a tutorial or something

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2003 12:33 am
by mydimension
stripslashes() - http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php

that ought to do the trick.

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2003 7:52 am
by CU Coder
thank you!!! my headaches are gone now!