need help on editing php files with arrays with php

webosb · 01-27-2009, 04:55 PM

not sure if this is the most efficient way of doing this but i have a file called myData.php that has the following:

PHP Code:


			
<?php

$data = array(

                array(

                    "theURL" => "http://www.google.com",

                    "title" => "Google",

                    "someText" => "Google Search Engine",

                    "moreText" => "Google Search Engine. Find whatever you want on the web.",

                    "thumbnail" => "tn_google.jpg"

                ),



                array(

                    "theURL" => "http://www.yahoo.com",

                    "title" => "Yahoo",

                    "someText" => "Yahoo Search Engine",

                    "moreText" => "Yahoo Search Engine. Find whatever you want on the web.",

                    "thumbnail" => "tn_yahoo.jpg"

                ),



                array(

                    "theURL" => "http://www.msn.com",

                    "title" => "MSN",

                    "someText" => "MSN Search Engine",

                    "moreText" => "MSN Search Engine. Find whatever you want on the web.",

                    "thumbnail" => "tn_msn.jpg"

                ),                

);

?>

so I want to create a web interface to edit those values so i dont have some random person editing it and breaking it. So what is the best route for accomplishing this. Should I be using file_get_contents? or is there something better?

Wildhoney · 01-27-2009, 10:45 PM

I don't think I understand. Couldn't you just pass in 2 arguments:

Argument 1: param=0/title
Argument 2: Froogle

That will then update the item in the array which argument 1 points to, with the data in argument 2. Please elaborate though, because I think your question is a little more complex than that.

webosb · 01-29-2009, 03:33 PM

Sorry for the confusion but this is what I want to accomplish:

- Create a front-end to edit the array values in myData.php

so far, i got the data to display in the front end with this code:

edit.php

PHP Code:


			
<?php 
require_once('myData.php');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> 
    
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Editor</title>
<style>
div#container{width: 960px; font: 12px tahoma; line-height: 20px; }
div#container label{ clear: both; display: block; float: left; width: 80px; text-align: right; margin-right: 10px;  }
div#container input{ float: left; width: 500px; }
div#container p.spacer{ display: block; height: 20px; clear: both; }
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="container">
<h3>Editor</h3>
<form id="form2" name="form2" method="post" action="">
<?php
$step = 1;
if($limitdata) {$i = 0;}
foreach ($data as $datas) {
    if($limitdata) { if($i>=$limitdata) continue; }

    $dataslink = $datas['theURL'];
    $datastitle = $datas['title'];
    $datassometext = $datas['someText'];
    $datasmoretext = preg_replace("/<img.+?>/", "", $datas['moreText']);
    $datasthumb = $dataimagefolder.$datas['thumbnail'];
    
    $datacontent = "\n";
    $datacontent .= "<label>Link ".$step."</label><input type=\"text\" name=\"link".$step."\" value=\"".$dataslink."\" />\n";
    $datacontent .= "<label>Title ".$step."</label><input type=\"text\" name=\"title1\" value=\"".$datastitle."\" />";
    $datacontent .= "<label>Some Text ".$step."</label><input type=\"text\" name=\"subtitle1\" value=\"".$datassometext."\" />";
    $datacontent .= "<label>More Text ".$step."</label><input type=\"text\" name=\"teaser1\" value=\"".$datasmoretext."\" />";
    $datacontent .= "<label>Thumbnail ".$step."</label><input type=\"text\" name=\"image1\" value=\"".$datasthumb."\" />";
    $datacontent .= "<p class=\"spacer\"></p>  ";

    echo $datacontent;
    if($limitdata) {$i++;}
    $step++;
}

?>

</form>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

myData.php

PHP Code:


			
<?php
$data = array(
                array(
                    "theURL" => "http://www.google.com",
                    "title" => "Google",
                    "someText" => "Google Search Engine",
                    "moreText" => "Google Search Engine. Find whatever you want on the web.",
                    "thumbnail" => "tn_google.jpg"
                ),

                array(
                    "theURL" => "http://www.yahoo.com",
                    "title" => "Yahoo",
                    "someText" => "Yahoo Search Engine",
                    "moreText" => "Yahoo Search Engine. Find whatever you want on the web.",
                    "thumbnail" => "tn_yahoo.jpg"
                ),

                array(
                    "theURL" => "http://www.msn.com",
                    "title" => "MSN",
                    "someText" => "MSN Search Engine",
                    "moreText" => "MSN Search Engine. Find whatever you want on the web.",
                    "thumbnail" => "tn_msn.jpg"
                ),                
);
?>

I know I can just create another file to save the POST values and overwrite the myData.php file but I just want to know if there was a better way of doing this (without involving a database).