Questing about Write and Read

[imryn]

Hello Folks,

Here's what I am thinking I would like to do. I would like to create an administrator web page that Writes to a file, then have my index page Read the content and display in in a small table. So my thought is am I work to hard here or is there a better way to do this ?

Thanks,
imryn

 

[imryn]

Hello Again,

I was thinking again... the information will be changing monthly on the index page, so would I be better off to write the information to a database, then call it from the database?

Thanks,
imryn

 

[trollacious]

Why not just rewrite the page every month when you want it changed?

Lee

 

[imryn]

Lee,

That is how I am currently doing it, and the issue is I want to get away from being the web admin of this site. I am currently re-designing it, and be more user freindly and so that they do not need some one with programming experience to update the site every Month. There are severy pages that need updated on this page.

imryn

 

[jpadie]

ryan

your suggestion is fine. there are other solutions too - google for javascript "edit in place" for a js solution.

for php read and write solution (this is very basic - designed to put you on the right track only:

<?
error_reporting(E_ALL);
session_start();
function displaycurrentcontent() {
	$contentfile = "content.txt";
	if (file_exists($contentfile)):
		$content = file_get_contents($contentfile);
	else:
		$content = "";
	endif;
	return $content;
}
function writecontent() {
	if (
		isset($_SESSION['uniqid']) && 
		isset($_POST['uniqid']) && 
		($_SESSION['uniqid'] === $_POST['uniqid'])
		):
		$contentfile = "content.txt";
		set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);
		if (!empty($_POST['content'])):
			if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()):
				$content=stripslashes($_POST['content']);
			else:
				$content = $_POST['content'];
			endif;
			$len = strlen($content);
			if (!is_writable($contentfile)) die ("File is not writeable.  Check permissions");
			$fh = fopen($contentfile, "wb");
			fwrite($fh, $content, $len);
			fclose ($fh);
		endif;
	endif;
}
if (isset($_POST['submit'])):
	writecontent();
endif;
$_SESSION['uniqid'] = uniqid("rw_");
?>

<form method="post" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>">
<input type="hidden" name="uniqid" value="<?=$_SESSION['uniqid']?>" />
<textarea name="content" id="contenttextarea">
</textarea>
<br/>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

<hr/>

Current content:
<div id="contentdiv" style="border:1px solid blue; width:70%; margin:0 auto;">
<? echo displaycurrentcontent(); ?>
</div>
<input type="submit" name="edit" value="Edit" onclick="document.getElementById('contenttextarea').value = document.getElementById('contentdiv').innerHTML; return true;"/>

 

[imryn]

jpadie,

Thanks for the insight.

imryn

 

[jpadie]

just a thought - but if you combine the method above with a wysisig in-web editor like FCKEditor, then your users would have quite a powerful method of updating their web site.