On 15 Feb, 16:35, Schraalhans Keukenmeester <bitbuc...@invalid.spam>
wrote:
Quote:
I want to build a very basic online text editor, to allow customers to
modify their own sites' html content using a simple form with textarea
element.
>
I read the HTML file like so:
>
<?PHP
>
function EditText ($filepath)
{
if (!$file = file($filepath)) return false;
foreach ($file as $line) {
$value .= $line; // contains all text in file when done
}
$html = "<html><head><title>Editor</title></head>
<body>
<form method='post' action='processtext.php'>
<textarea rows='40' cols='80' name='txt' value='$value'>
<input type='submit'>
</form>
</body>
</html>";
echo $html;
return true;
}
>
EditText ('/sample/index.html');
?>
>
The problem comes when the parsed file containing html elements itself
is echoed to the browser. In itself, PHP does what it's asked, but all
browsers I tried choke on the contents of the TEXTAREA field. Best
example may be: try parsing the file containing the script itself, it
becomes a real mess.
>
I tried htmlspecialchars, this did not fix it. I tried addslashes to
only escape the quotes in the parsed file, also no success.
>
I saw one example online where 'they' preg_replaced about every possible
(x)html and php syntax element, resulting in an immensely large and slow
script. Can't imagine that's the proper way forward.
>
If at all possible I'd like to stay away from Javascript. Any idea if
this is a realistic approach? Are there any useable scripts available? I
searched google a lot, but I keep ending up at sites that offer html or
php editors for local use, not in a browser.
>
Thanks for any good tips!
I haven't examined too closely how Peter does it, but FacileForms
allows one to put HTML & PHP in textareas that then get stored on the
host.
You could download that package and take a look at the various classes
to see how it's done.
