A Quick Question...

[SilentSerenityXx]

Sorry if this is really simple, but does anyone know how, in a .php file, to show PHP code within a textarea without it being compiled and interpreted?  Thanks!  =)

[assie-chan]

Ha ha, very simple. Replace any < with &lt; and > with &gt; And usually, instead of <textarea> I use, <code> since textareas don't change the escape codes.

You can see an example of how I do it here: http://vitae.infinite9.net/index.php?Key=Tutorials&SubKey=SplashGate

[Vangs]

Actually thats only how you prevent tags from being displayed, it doesn't answer her question of how to open a php file to be edittable.

The coding is as follows:

Code:

$file = file_get_contents("file.php");
$file = htmlspecialchars("$file");
$file = str_replace("\n","<br>",$file);

Then just set the textarea content to echo $file. Of course thats a very basic way of displaying it, it works though. Although you will still need to create a script to write the new contents to the file. So in your form processing do this:

Code:

$newcontent = $_POST['content'];

$handle = fopen("file.php", 'w');
fwrite($handle, $newcontent);
fclose($handle);

Change $_POST['content'] to whatever you name the textarea, and change file.php to your file.

[SilentSerenityXx]

Cool, thanks so much guys!  =)