Editing source files via textarea in the browser

[eragon]

( This discussion was started in the JavaScript forum, i found out that PHP will do what i need, now i need to find out how to do it... )

Hey peoples! i need help... alot... if what i am trying to do is possible. i am looking for a PHP or other script of the sort that will allow mt to edit my site while still online, without having to edit it on my computer and upload it. I could make a form to edit the page, but it cant save, so, thats where i need help. does this method exist? (Yes, it does, how else are these forums created? i put stuff in this text box, it shows up in the forum...) Please share your knowledge!!!

Now i need to find out how to make the PHP page... Using notepad... Cause thats all i use... send me your scripts and/or knowledge!!!

Yours Thankfully,

Eragon Eisert

[phpmike]

( This discussion was started in the JavaScript forum, i found out that PHP will do what i need, now i need to find out how to do it... )



Now i need to find out how to make the PHP page... Using notepad... Cause thats all i use... send me your scripts and/or knowledge!!!

Yours Thankfully,

Eragon Eisert

Sounds like you could just use a better editor like pspad or even cpanel where you can edit your files from the file manager without downloading them.

If your looking for a wysiwyg editor just google 'php wysiwyg editor'

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[Atli]

( This discussion was started in the JavaScript forum, i found out that PHP will do what i need, now i need to find out how to do it... )



Now i need to find out how to make the PHP page... Using notepad... Cause thats all i use... send me your scripts and/or knowledge!!!

Yours Thankfully,

Eragon Eisert

Are you simply trying to edit the contents of a HTML page?
If so you should check out the fopen, fread and fwrite functions.

With them you could read the HTML file into a textarea, have your user (yourelf) edit the contents of the textarea and post it, and then have your PHP code override you old HTML file.

Check out php.net for a description for those (and all other) functions.

If you dont have any PHP experience, I would reccomend reading some PHP tutorials, just to get the basics.
This one looks good

[eragon]

i was just looking for a simple form, for example, i have a text box for article title, another for date, another for the author, and a text area for the article contents. this form should be loaded on another page on my site and edit the news page on my index.htm (or index.php if i convert) page. i found a php script i like, but i cant preview *.php files on my computer so i cant see if it works right... is there a way to fix this?