tbrama Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Here is what I need to do and wonder if someone could tell me how I could go about doing it. I have an HTML file that contains variables read by a flash template. The variable string starts and ends with an &. example: &home_text1=SOME TEXT HERE& What I would like to do is for the code to read through this file locate the first "&" and skip to the = sign then read and post the text in a text box for editing. People have suggested using a MySQL db but I am unaware of how to connect a db to this flash template. I have tried lots of different methods to read the file but don't know how I could filter through the file and do what I need it to. I have the base script to read and edit the file in one textarea but its to confusing to hand over to a customer. If someone could help me out here that would be great. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/158462-reading-and-sorting-through-an-html-file/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobcatM Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Not sure I understand what you are asking. But why not use PHP and write to a text file and use Flash to read the txt file. That's what I do, but you may need something else. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/158462-reading-and-sorting-through-an-html-file/#findComment-835706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobcatM Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Here is an example of the one I use for flash sites, so customers can update the regular stuff as needed like news. A little form - <form action="news.php" method="POST"> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="login"> <p align="center">UPDATE NEWS:<br /> <textarea rows="30" name="textbox" cols="80"> <?php include("news.txt") ?> </textarea><br /> <input type="submit" value=" Save Changes " class="button"> </p></form> And how I process it - <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> <script language="php"> $textbox = stripslashes($textbox); $search = array ('@[\r]+@'); $replace = array (''); $textbox = preg_replace($search, $replace, $textbox); $txt = ''; $output = $textbox; $fp = fopen('news.txt','w'); $txt = "$output"; fputs($fp, $txt); fclose($fp); </script> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .style1 { font-size: 24px; color: #000066; } .style2 {font-size: 24px; color: #000066; font-weight: bold; } --> </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p align="center" class="style1"> </p> <p align="center" class="style2">UPDATES COMPLETE, THANK YOU.</p> <p align="center" class="style2"><input name="Submit" type="submit" ONCLICK="window.location.href='updates.php'" value=" Back To Updates Page " /> </p> </body> </html> Hope that helps, if you need anymore info let me know. Heading to bed, can't see straight. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/158462-reading-and-sorting-through-an-html-file/#findComment-835713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbrama Posted May 17, 2009 Author Share Posted May 17, 2009 You have something very similar to what I need and I plan to use php to write to the file but the thing is this file has all the text for each of the pages on the flash template. I need a way to break up the file. If there is a way for php to look for comments and break up each of the sections of the file into different text areas that would work as well. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/158462-reading-and-sorting-through-an-html-file/#findComment-835828 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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