Online HTML/PHP Editor: Edit File In Browser!

Nqon

May 17 2005, 03:08 PM

Im wondering how you can load a file into a text area and edit it. Lets say i have a php file called test.php and id like this file to be loaded into a textarea and the user should be able to edit this file and store it.

Is this posible?

Im also wondering how you make it so the html dosnt get encoded by the browser, lets say i need to explain on my website how you use html.

CODE

Just testing something, maybe i can get this from the source. <b></b>

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miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG

May 17 2005, 03:30 PM

Why don't you google for HTMLArea Text Editor - that does the exact same job - i.e. creates an online text editor. Combine the code of that with some file saving/uploading routines in PHP and you'll get your desired results

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Nqon

May 17 2005, 03:38 PM

Thanks, but how do I get the php into the textarea without it being executed?

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jipman

May 17 2005, 05:18 PM

easy

I made a editor by myself, let me enlighten you.

If you encode all HTML like characters like < > to < , >, the < and > will show up correctly in the textarea but won't be executed.

And posting is just posting the contents of the textarea and have a php file write it to a file.

You also might want to wacht out for CHMODDING issues

[brag]
Mine works so nicely that I use that instead of SSH'ing to the server.
[/brag]

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Nqon

May 18 2005, 08:14 AM

Yes yes, I found out how you did that pritty quickly, but my problem is that the PHP file gets executed into the editing textarea, is there a way to avoid that?

The point of editing the php file is that it needs to be executed at some point! I know about the chmodding issues. But is there a way to bring the php file into the textarea without it being executed, i know i can use special characters that will stop it from being executed, but that would stop it from being executet all the time. I want it to be executed when it is included in the site.

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jipman

May 18 2005, 02:45 PM

What do you see when you open a file with : <?php echo 'test'; ?> in it?
exactly, you'll see <?php echo 'test'; ?> in the textarea, but what was in the source?
< and all those other html characters.
But when you POST it up to the server, it will just post <?php echo 'test'; ?>, because you will post up what up SEE in the textarea.

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manymanymuch

Jun 29 2005, 06:28 PM

I use PHP's htmlspecialchars() to show HTML coding.

There's a function which can be used to decode what has been encoded. It's htmlspecialchars_decode(). Unfortunately, this decoder is available only in PHP5.

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CrazyPensil

Mar 18 2006, 09:06 AM

Simply.
A file with textarea, value of which would be written to the file chosen.

CODE

I hope, you'll be able to complete it yourself

As for editing,

CODE

<?php
      if($file&&$script) {
      $fp=fopen($file, "w");
      fwrite($fp,$script);
      fclose($fp);
   }
?>
<form action="index.php" method=post>
Name of file: <input type=text name=file><br>
Code of file:<br>
<?php
   if($file) {
?>
<textarea colls=400 rows=200 name=script>
<?php
   $fp=fopen($file,"r");
   $t="";
   while(!feof($fp)) {
      $t.=fread($fp,1024);
   }
   fclose($fp);
   print $t;
}
</textarea>
<input type=hidden name=file value="<?=$file;?>">
<?php
   }
?>
<input type=submit>
</form>

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Opethian

Apr 30 2006, 01:37 AM

Try using one of those frameworks, script.acolo.us or MooScript I think, they have some examples that I'm unsure of, but just might be exactly what you were looking for.

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(G)

Sep 12 2009, 09:32 PM

Your code is just a little off. Here is what I got:

[CODE]

<?php

$file = $_POST['file'];
$script = $_POST['script'];
      if($file&&$script) {
      $fp=fopen($file, "w");
      fwrite($fp,$script);
      fclose($fp);
   }
?>
<form action="test.Php" method="post">
Name of file: <input type="text" name="file"><br>
Code of file:<br>
<?php
   if($file) {
?>
<textarea colls="400" rows="200" style="width: 100%;" name="script">
<?php
   $fp=fopen($file,"r");
   $t="";
   while(!feof($fp)) {
      $t.=fread($fp,1024);
   }
   fclose($fp);
   print $t;
?>
</textarea>
<input type="hidden" name="file" value="<?=$file;?>">
<?php
   }
?>
<br />
<input type="submit">
</form>

[/CODE]

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starscream

Oct 6 2009, 05:49 PM

There are plenty of online editors that can let you edit php/html/xml/css online. Phpanywhere is the one. Another one is PhpHTMLedit. There is also codepress check it here. There are few such tools but most of them are paid. Also do you know you can edit most of the web formats on your cpanels' text editor. It provides syntax highlight and line number formatting. Do check it on your own cpanel.

In between, you can check Editphponline. It's still in beta but worth to check out. after opening the site you'll see it opens up a text editor on browser window with number on left hand sidebar. You can edit and save your files.

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