simple php help.

sethyz · October 30, 2008

I'm having problems with this file not posting to the file on the website to update my webpage. let me know if you can help

<?php
// If no cookie is present, redirect the user.
// if (!isset($_COOKIE['password'])) {

require_once ('central.php'); // Connect to the stored password page.

if ($stored_password != $_COOKIE['password'])  {


header ("Location:  http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . "login.php");
exit(); // Quit the script.
        }


?>

<html>

<head>

<title>Sc0tsman.com information Updater</title>

<LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="stylesheet.css" TYPE="text/css">

</head>

<body>

<table align="center" border="0"><tr><td>

<?php


$newsboxid = "$_REQUEST[newsid]";


if (empty($submit_news_update))
        $submit_news_update = "";

if (empty($newsboxid))
        $newsboxid = "";

$boxon = "on";


$news = "newsfile" . "$newsboxid" ;
//---------------------------------------------------------

if ($submit_news_update == "Submit Update"){

trim($news_box);

$news_box_text = "newsphp/$news.txt";

$FilePointer = fopen ($news_box_text, "w");

fwrite ($FilePointer, $news_box);

fclose ($FilePointer);

$boxon = "no";


print "<br> <br><b>The information has been updated!<br> <br>

<br> <br><a href=\"$homepage\">Back to the Home page</a>";

}

## If we are not submitting an update we just need to open the text file ansd read it but first
## we need to check if the file is there first


if ($submit_news_update == "" && file_exists("newsphp/$news.txt")) {

$boxon = "no";

$news_box_text = "newsphp/$news.txt";

$Open = fopen ($news_box_text, "r");

$existing_news_array = file ($news_box_text);

$existing_news = implode("", $existing_news_array);

fclose ($Open);

trim($existing_news);

$new_line = "";

//$existing_news = ereg_replace("[\n\r]", "$new_line", "$existing_news");

$existing_news = ereg_replace("[\n]", "$new_line", "$existing_news");

$existing_news = stripslashes($existing_news);


print '

<br> <br><a href="listing_manager.php">Back to the manager select page</a><br> <br>

<p><h2>Information box updater';

print " $newsboxid";

print '

</h2></p>

<FORM ACTION="update_news.php" METHOD=POST>

<textarea rows=15 cols=50 name="news_box" class="input_text_area">';

print "$existing_news";

print '</textarea><br>

<input type="hidden" name="newsid" value="';

print $newsboxid ;

print '"><input type="submit" name="submit_news_update" value="Submit Update"> ';

}

if ($boxon == "no") {

## Do nothing

}

else {

print '

<br> <br><a href="listing_manager.php">Back to the manager select page</a><br> <br>

<p><h2>Create content for information box';

print " $newsboxid";

print '

</h2></p>



<FORM ACTION="update_news.php" METHOD=POST>

<textarea rows=15 cols=50 name="news_box" class="input_text_area">';

print '</textarea><br>

<input type="hidden" name="newsid" value="';

print $newsboxid ;

print '"><input type="submit" name="submit_news_update" value="Submit Update"> ';



}


?>

</body>

</html>

(edited by kenrbnsn to add

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MasterACE14 · October 30, 2008

try changing this...

$newsboxid = "$_REQUEST[newsid]";

to this...

$newsboxid = $_POST['newsid'];

sethyz · October 30, 2008

I thought that was for the page request like update_news.php?newsid=2 etc.

anyways I gave it a try and no go it stoped reading the files I already have added goto http://sc0tsman.x10hosting.com/login.php the password is password32 tell me what you think, cause I can't get it to work.

sethyz · October 31, 2008

If this helps anyone the full script is at this site.

http://www.crockerwebdesign.com/phpscripts.html

I've emailed the coder but no reply, can anyone get it to work?

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