Help with Simple XML functionality

[halfer2008]

Hi

 

Im making a simple xml cms to use on my site, doesn't have to be secure or anything but encountered a problem with a / appearing before every ' i use in the text.

 

Anyway my code is as follows: content.php

<?php

// set name of XML file
$file = "content.xml";

// load file
$xml = simplexml_load_file($file) or die ("Unable to load XML file!");

// access XML data
echo "Content: " . $xml->text . "\n";

$textContent = $xml->text;

?> 

<form action="save.php" method="post" >
<textarea name="text" value="text"><?=$textContent;?></textarea>
<input type="submit" />		
</form>

 

and save.php

 

<?php


// set name of XML file
$file = "content.xml";

// load file
$xml = simplexml_load_file($file) or die ("Unable to load XML file!");

$text = $_POST['text'];

// modify XML data
$xml->text = $text;

// write new data to file
file_put_contents($file, $xml->asXML());

echo "Content: " . $xml->text . "\n";

?> 

 

Could someone run through with mehow I'd replace the ' and special characters on the way in and then get them back on the way out of the xml?

 

Kind Regards & Thanks in advance

 

Chris

[BlueSkyIS]

$text = stripslashes($_POST['text']);

[halfer2008]

Thats great problem now is that im using TinyMCE as the text editor for the cms, everything works fine except for the Ordered and Unordered Lists, any ideas?

 

Kind Regards

 

 

[nadeemshafi9]

look at the html of the content by adding the html view button to tinymce and see what is wrong with the markup

[halfer2008]

Its to do with the lis etc and nbsp when it goes to load in the xml. Is there a way I can make that stuff xml while also curing the problem i solved by use of the stripslashes?

[nadeemshafi9]

Its to do with the lis etc and nbsp when it goes to load in the xml. Is there a way I can make that stuff xml while also curing the problem i solved by use of the stripslashes?

 

stripslashes is an amturish way of solving problems like these, u are stripping the slashes of XML

[halfer2008]

Is there another way that you could recommend nadeemshafi9? My understanding is that Im striping the /s from the code before it goes into the xml, not actually striping the xml.

[nadeemshafi9]

i think you need to write the XML to a file because it is ready made with slashes, then u need to read the xml then the slashes will be gone hopefully, or put it in a DB and then read it, people add slashes when they put stuff into databases and fuiles for storage so they know hich characters are not SQL ' is a SQL char so /' put into a db will come out as ', so put it in and take it out of a file or db, xml reader Classes objects usualy write a file and read it from there

[halfer2008]

The xml is going to a file, and I'm trying to do this without a db.

[BlueSkyIS]

Its to do with the lis etc and nbsp when it goes to load in the xml. Is there a way I can make that stuff xml while also curing the problem i solved by use of the stripslashes?

 

stripslashes is an amturish way of solving problems like these, u are stripping the slashes of XML

 

simple methods to solve simple problems. the problem was additional slashes added by magic_quotes in the POST'ed content. to remove extra slashes added by magic_quotes, simply use stripslashes() and you'll get rid of the extra slashes added by magic_quotes while leaving the intended slashes in the content.

[halfer2008]

hi again

 

@BluSkyIS. yes while the stripslahes() method worked to remove the extra content, I wasn't able to add things like links or ul or ol lists to the xml through the use of tinymce. any ideas on why that wouldn't work, I thought it may be to do with the stripslashes removing additional information i need for them to work.