Re: Editing Files Using POST Forms

try "stripcslashes()" "Rca Web Development" <rcaweb@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:MABBIIHDNNPNALNEIKIDGEDICHAA.rcaweb@yahoo.co.uk... > I have created a php page that accepts a variable called $file using GET. It > then displays this in a textarea box. You can then edit the file and click a > button to save it and it POSTS it to the same page (edit.php) on the server. > This works but it adds slashes before any speech marks (""). Can somebody > help me with this. > > Below is an example of how it changes the code and the code for the page > edit.php > > Regards, > Corin Rathbone > www.corin.org.uk > --------------------------------- > > A page before editing: > <html> > <head> > <title></title> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1"> > <meta name="author" content="Corin Rathbone 2001"> > </head> > <body> > > <div class="heading">Delete A File</div> > > </body> > </html> > --------------------------------- > > The same page after editing: > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\"> > > <html> > <head> > <title></title> > <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> > <meta name=\"author\" content=\"Corin Rathbone 2001\"> > </head> > <body> > > <div class=\"heading\">Delete A File</div> > > </body> > </html> > --------------------------------- > > The edit.php page source: > <?php > include "config.php"; > > //Start Pages PHP here > > if(isset($save)){ > $fp = fopen("$file", "wb") or die("Could not open file!"); > $worked = fwrite($fp, $contents) or die("Could not write file!"); > fclose($fp) or die("Could not close file!"); > $edit=false; > $save=true; > } > elseif(isset($file)){ > $fp = fopen("$file", "rb") or die("Could not open file!"); > $contents = fread($fp, filesize($file)) or die("Could not read file!"); > fclose($fp) or die("Could not close file!"); > $edit=true; > $save=false; > } > else{ > $edit=false; > $save=false; > } > > //End Pages PHP Here > ?> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> > > <html> > <head> > <title>Edit A File - File Explorer For <?php print($root_url);?></title> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1"> > <meta name="author" content="Corin Rathbone webmaster@corirn.org.uk"> > <meta name="copyright" content="Corin Rathbone 2001"> > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css"> > </head> > <body> > <!-- Start Of Page Content --> > > <div class="heading">Edit A File</div> > > <?php > if($edit){ > print( "Contents Of file: <b>" ); > print( "$file" ); > print( "</b>\n" ); > print( "<p align=\"center\">\n" ); > print( " <form action=\"edit.php\" method=\"post\" >\n" ); > print( "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"file\" value=\"" ); > print( "$file" ); > print( "\">\n" ); > print( "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"save\" > value=\"1\">" ); > print( " <textarea name=\"contents\" rows=\"25\" > cols=\"90\">\n" ); > print( "$contents" ); > print( " </textarea><br>\n" ); > print( " <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Save\">\n" ); > print( " </form>\n" ); > print( "</p>" ); > } > elseif($save){ > print( "<p align=\"center\">\n" ); > print( "File: <b>" ); > print( "$file" ); > if($worked){print( "</b> has been saved!" );} > else {print( "</b> has <b>not</b> been saved!" );} > print( "</p>" ); > } > else { > print( "<p align=\"center\"><b>Please Select A File To Be Save!</b></p>" ); > } > ?> > > <!-- End Of Page Content --> > <BR><BR><BR> > <div class="copyright">&copy;<a > href="mailto:webmaster@corin.org.uk">Corin > Rathbone</a> 2001</div> > > </body> > </html> >