TGWSE_GY Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 Ok so I know how to create a form, and get the data from a form to manipulate the values in php. My question is how do I take that data and write it into a file ie. conf.db.php? Thanks Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/198197-write-a-php-config-file-based-off-of-a-form/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeddyKiller Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 Can you explain what you mean a bit more? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/198197-write-a-php-config-file-based-off-of-a-form/#findComment-1039913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 fopen, fwrite, fclose. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/198197-write-a-php-config-file-based-off-of-a-form/#findComment-1039915 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGWSE_GY Posted April 13, 2010 Author Share Posted April 13, 2010 What I am wanting to do something similar to this: 1. the user uploads the files to the server 2. the user loads the script 3. the script see's that its the first time being run 3-1. the script loads a form asking for: 3-1-a. Host 3-1-b. User 3-1-c. Password 3-1-d. Database Name 4. User presses the next button 5. The credentials are tested 6. Upon success config.db.php is written with the above database connection info in it. Here is what I have so far, maybe someone can tell me how far off I am...... FORM <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Database Configuration</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="view.css" media="all"> <script type="text/javascript" src="view.js"></script> </head> <body id="main_body" > <img id="top" src="top.png" alt=""> <div id="form_container"> <h1><a>Database Configuration</a></h1> <form id="form_220518" class="appnitro" method="post" action="process.form.php"> <div class="form_description"> <h2>Database Configuration</h2> <p>We will set your mySQL Database information.</p> </div> <ul > <li id="li_1" > <label class="description" for="hostname">Hostname: </label> <div> <input id="hostname" name="hostname" class="element text large" type="text" maxlength="255" value=""/> </div><p class="guidelines" id="guide_1"><small>Enter your mySQL Database Server address here. Usually localhost will do however some hosts require your to use http://mysql.mydomain.com</small></p> </li> <li id="li_2" > <label class="description" for="username">Username: </label> <div> <input id="username" name="username" class="element text medium" type="text" maxlength="255" value=""/> </div><p class="guidelines" id="guide_2"><small>Enter your mySQL Database Server Username</small></p> </li> <li id="li_3" > <label class="description" for="password">Password: </label> <div> <input id="password" name="password" class="element text medium" type="username" maxlength="255" value=""/> </div><p class="guidelines" id="guide_3"><small>Enter your mySQL Database Server Password</small></p> </li> <li id="li_4" > <label class="description" for="database">Database: </label> <div> <input id="database" name="database" class="element text medium" type="text" maxlength="255" value=""/> </div><p class="guidelines" id="guide_4"><small>please enter your mySQL Database Name</small></p> </li> <li class="buttons"> <input id="saveForm" class="button_text" type="submit" name="submit" value="Proceed" /> </li> </ul> </form> <div id="footer"> Generated by <a href="http://www.phpform.org">pForm</a> </div> </div> <img id="bottom" src="bottom.png" alt=""> </body> </html> Proccess <?php $host = $_POST['hostname']; $user=$_POST['username']; $pass=$_POST['password']; $db =$_POST['database']; if(mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass){ if(mysql_select_db($db)){ $file="../../../content/db.config.php"; $handle=fopen($file, 'w'); $data="<?php $host=$host; $user=$user; $pass=$pass; $db=$db; $conn=mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass); $selectdb=mysql_select_db($db); ?>"; fwrite($handle, $data); fclose($handle); }else{ //Later there will have to be an error document placed here echo("Please press back and refill out the form the database name is incorrect."); } }else{ //Later there will have to be an error document placed here echo("Please press back and refill out the form the Hostname, Username, or Database is incorrect"); } ?> Thanks Guys Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/198197-write-a-php-config-file-based-off-of-a-form/#findComment-1040831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 You might at least start by escaping the $ signs so that your variables don't interpolate. $data="<?php \$host=$host; \$user=$user; \$pass=$pass; \$db=$db; \$conn=mysql_connect(\$host, \$user, \$pass); \$selectdb=mysql_select_db(\$db); ?>"; I would not be putting an php code in there though (not that I would use this method at all), but just variable assignments. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/198197-write-a-php-config-file-based-off-of-a-form/#findComment-1040849 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGWSE_GY Posted April 13, 2010 Author Share Posted April 13, 2010 Well if you would not put any PHP code in there how would you achieve this? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/198197-write-a-php-config-file-based-off-of-a-form/#findComment-1040907 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChemicalBliss Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 What he means is use flat files, which is very very bad mmmkay, it means anyone can read the file unless you restrict it etc not needed just use native php like so: $host = custom_sanitize_func($_POST['host']); $user = custom_sanitize_func($_POST['user']); $pass = custom_sanitize_func($_POST['pass']); $PHP_TEMPLATE_FILE = '<?php $config_host = "'.$host.'"; $config_user = "'.$user.'"; $config_pass = "'.$pass.'"; ?>'; $fname = "config.php"; // Delete if(file_exists($fname)){ unlink($fname); } / Make a new file $file = fopen($fname,"a+"); fwrite($file, $PHP_TEMPLATE_FILE); fclose($file); -CB- Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/198197-write-a-php-config-file-based-off-of-a-form/#findComment-1040915 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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