Question

[hilda]

I have a small website and I need people to update text on the site. I created text files for them to just type what they need and upload it then a simple PHP include would publish this and everything would work great.

 

My issues is that some dont know how to use a editor or even an FTP program. So i am thinking of making an interface to log into and just query this file, edit it and then save it. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas. It seems very simple and as I have taken on more role and duties I am not sure how much time I will have to create this. Is there anything I can search for or something out there I can buy for cheap or use.

 

Thanks for the help.

DJ

[rhodesa]

I would recommend looking into one of the MANY open-source content management systems (CMS) that are out there. popular ones are Joomla & Drupal. I am also a fan of cmsMadeSimple.

[hilda]

Thank you for the update but I would rather stay away from CMS. I would rather find a way to simple edit these 5 files. I have to make sure that these users keep working on that one file not the entire page. I look at our dev site and it's a mess.

 

I would rather some admin panel that they can login and edit or upload to this text file.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks

Derek

[revraz]

Why not just provide a form for them to do the same thing?

[chronister]

revraz is right, it would be easier to just allow then to do it through a form. If you don't want to build a full out login system, you could allow those users to "share" a password and hard code it in a text doc or something to that effect.

 

That is really not a good way to do it, but it would work depending on your security needs.

 

Nate

[hilda]

Agh yes. That would be easier.. Thanks for the help. nNow it's time to get making forms.

 

Thanks

[rhodesa]

revraz is right, it would be easier to just allow then to do it through a form. If you don't want to build a full out login system, you could allow those users to "share" a password and hard code it in a text doc or something to that effect.

 

That is really not a good way to do it, but it would work depending on your security needs.

 

Nate

 

i would use an .htaccess/.htpasswd file instead of hardcoding a password in

[hilda]

Ok I did that but I have one issue. how do I get rid of the "\" when punctuation is used?

Like tonight's looks like tonight\'s. Can I create something into the form that will help me?

 

Thanks again for the help.

[chronister]

stripslashes() will remove them.

[revraz]

Sounds like you have magic quotes on?

 

Check out stripslashes and addslashes instead.

 

 

[hilda]

Sorry foolish quesiton but how and where do I use that stripslashes in my form/code?

 

 

Thanks

 

[revraz]

http://us2.php.net/stripslashes

[hilda]

Ok I went through that link but I a m still a little confused. I am trying to use this in a form not a DB. I was wondering do you have a quick example I can view on that?

 

Thanks

[thecard]

Sounds like you should read a bit more into php tbh but anyways:

So a user enters some text into a form and their comment/article is stored in the global variable $_POST (or $_GET).

 

$string = $_POST['article'];

stripslashes($string);

 

Now your string won't have the unnecessary \s.

[rhodesa]

the slashes are probably coming from an OLD feature of PHP called magic_quotes. basically addslashes() is automatically run on all form data (for outdated security reasons). using stripslashes() will undo what PHP is automatically doing, but since magic_quotes is depreciated and won't be in PHP6, you should look into disabling it all together:

http://us.php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.disabling.php

[hilda]

I guess we al start somewhere. I have been reading online and trying to learn this myself.

 

I did try that but it did not work. I posted my snippet of code below

 

<?PHP

 

$filename = "nfl.txt";

$text = $_POST['nfl'];

stripslashes($text);

 

$fp = fopen ($filename, "w");

if ($fp) {

fwrite ($fp, $text);

fclose ($fp);

echo ("The Update has been Posted");

}

else {

echo ("The Update has not been  Posted");

}

 

?>

 

Again thank you for the help

 

[revraz]

Which is exactly what I said above

 

the slashes are probably coming from an OLD feature of PHP called magic_quotes. basically addslashes() is automatically run on all form data (for outdated security reasons). using stripslashes() will undo what PHP is automatically doing, but since magic_quotes is depreciated and won't be in PHP6, you should look into disabling it all together:

http://us.php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.disabling.php