•  12-10-2022
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Question

I am currently developing somthing like a CMS, but without using any database. A really big problem for me is how can you change (and later format content via tinymce (or similar) ) and then save it into a php file?

My configuration file for each page looks like this:

<?php 
$title = 'Title of the page';

$contenttitle = <<<HTML
Something like a short summary, displayed at the top
HTML;


$content = <<<HTML
main content
HTML;

$foldername = basename(__FILE__, '.php');
include '../template/standard/layout/index.php'; ?>

Now, I want to be able to open a script in the browser where I can select the file I want to edit and see text boxes with content of $title, $contenttitle and $content. So, in fact we open a file, look for these 3 variables, display their content and change them (overwrite the file).

How can this be solved?

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Solution

This is just an example approach that may help you:

  1. Write a php/html file which will print out a form for you:

    <form method="post"> <input type="text" name="title" value=""/>

    <input type="text" name="contenttitle" value=""/>

    <textarea name="content">">

    <input type="submit" value="save"/> </form>

  2. Handle your form in the php file:

    if (!empty($_POST)) {

    $result = array( 'title' => htmlspecialchars($_POST['title']), 'contenttitle' => htmlspecialchars($_POST['contenttitle']), 'content' => htmlspecialchars($_POST['content']) );

    // save it to a file by serialiing $filename = uniqid().'.text'; // you may play around with file names, rewrite this line so it will suit your convention - you may use counter of the files

    file_put_content($filename, serialize($result));

    }

  3. To retrieve file and print it use something like this:

    $file = $_GET['name']; $file = str_replace(array('/', '.', '\'), '', $file); // for security reasons

    $content = file_get_contents($file.'.text'); // note this is an example extension

    $data = unserialize($content);

    echo '<h1>'.$data['title'].'</h1>';

    echo '<h2>'.$data['contenttitle'].'</h2>';

    echo '<p>'.$data['content'].'</p>';

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