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JasonDFR
04-08-2008, 04:13 PM
I would like to be able to allow someone to change one line of text on an HTML document that I constructed. It needs to be password protected.

For example:

HTML: <span>We will be open Monday</span> is on www.mysite.com . I would like to create a page where there is a form box that a user can enter text into, click a submit button, and have "We will be open Monday" change to whatever they want. This would then be saved so subsequent visitors would see the updated text.

Please help, I think this is pretty simple and I have found some solutions, but they are all very very complicated.

Thanks in advance. Great fourms!

Jason
hmsnacker123
04-08-2008, 04:23 PM
hmm try this: (XHTML)


<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function refresh() {
var txt = document.getElementById('usertext').value;
document.getElementById('update').innerHTML = txt;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p><span id="update">We will be open Monday</span></p>
<input type="text" id="usertext" /><input type="button" onClick="refresh()" value="Update" />
</body>
</html>

Please COntact mE!
JasonDFR
04-08-2008, 04:35 PM
Thanks. That is on the right track.

But I need something server side I think that will save the entered text into the original HTML document.

I would like to put the text box on a separate page that I will password protect.

So someone goes to www.mysite.com/private.html and enters text into the box, clicks a button. The text on www.mysite.com/index.html is changed and remains that way.

Thanks again for the help!

J
hmsnacker123
04-08-2008, 04:42 PM
ok for a login i highly recomend that you dont use JavaScript, but find a PHP script or cofigure a sql database using aspx instead as for the thing where is saves the text, you can also use aspx webparts. to download sql look on microsoft.com. reply.

also i think you should set up an IIS so you can view .aspx extensions in your web browser. (if you cant already)
JasonDFR
04-08-2008, 04:52 PM
Thanks again for the reply. I'll look into your suggestions for sure.

I just found this:

http://www.snippetmaster.com/index.php

Any thoughts on it?
hmsnacker123
04-08-2008, 04:56 PM
this cant permantly save the edited text to the website through the private.html page, but this is my last reply cos i have to go :)
JasonDFR
04-09-2008, 08:46 AM
I have spent this morning figuring it out and I came up with this. It is different from your script, but it seems to work. BTW I used the Tizag.com tutorial to learn all this. It is a really good tut.

*****I've got this where I want it on /index.php : <span><?php include("ticker.txt"); ?></span>

*****I've got this on /private.php



<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title></title>


</head>

<body>

<h1>TICKER CHANGE PAGE</h1>

<h2>60 Characters Maximum INCLUDING Spaces</h2>
<br />
<form action="process.php" method="post">
New Ticker Text: <input type="text" size="60" maxlength="60" name="ticker_text" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>


</body>
</html>


******And this on /process.php :


<html>

<body>

<?php

$ticker_text = $_POST['ticker_text'];

$ticker_file = "ticker.txt";
$fh = fopen($ticker_file, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $ticker_text);
fclose($fh);
echo $ticker_text;

?>

</body>

</html>


Seems to work. I'll password protect /private.php.

You guys see any flaws?
Master_script_maker
04-09-2008, 11:32 AM
here's my view of private.php(with login):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title></title>


</head>

<body>
<?php
if ($_POST['password']=="your_pass" && $_POST['username']=="your_user") {
?>
<h1>TICKER CHANGE PAGE</h1>

<h2>60 Characters Maximum INCLUDING Spaces</h2>
<br />
<form action="process.php" method="post">
Ticker Text: <input type="text" value="<?php include('ticker.txt');?>" size="60" maxlength="60" name="ticker_text" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
<?php
} else {
$error=(isset($_POST['submitted']) && $_POST['submitted']=="yes")?"Wrong username or password. Please try again.":"";
echo '<span style="font-color:red">'.$error.'</span><br />';
?>
<form action="private.php" method="post">
Username: <input type="text" name="username" /><br />
Password: <input type="text" name="password" />
<input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="yes"/><br />
<input type="submit" />
<?php
}
?>
</form>
</body>
</html>
change the values in red
JasonDFR
04-09-2008, 02:26 PM
Very nice. I like it. How do I handle the password in this case? I had planned to use my webhosts file manager to password protect the /private.php file .

J
bluegillmedia
05-01-2008, 01:05 AM
Did anyone get this to work? I get an 405 error, but then when i refresh it shows me nothing except for the bit of normal html text i popped in there, the word type in in private.php should show up between the brackets).

this is my process file:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title></title>


</head>

<body>

<h1>TICKER CHANGE PAGE</h1>

<h2>60 Characters Maximum INCLUDING Spaces</h2>
<br />
<form action="process.php" method="post">
New Ticker Text: <input type="text" size="60" maxlength="60" name="ticker_text" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>


</body>
</html>

I am really in desperate need of some code that an admin user can change and every other surfer will see (on a different page like the example above).
Master_script_maker
05-01-2008, 12:55 PM
admin.php:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title></title>


</head>

<body>
<?php
if ($_POST['password']=="your_pass" && $_POST['username']=="your_user") {
?>
<h1>TICKER CHANGE PAGE</h1>

<h2>60 Characters Maximum INCLUDING Spaces</h2>
<br />
<form action="process.php" method="post">
Ticker Text: <input type="text" value="<?php include('ticker.txt');?>" size="60" maxlength="60" name="ticker_text" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
<?php
} else {
$error=(isset($_POST['submitted']) && $_POST['submitted']=="yes")?"Wrong username or password. Please try again.":"";
echo '<span style="font-color:red">'.$error.'</span><br />';
?>
<form method="post">
Username: <input type="text" name="username" /><br />
Password: <input type="text" name="password" />
<input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="yes"/><br />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
<?php
}
?>
</body>
</html>
process.php:

<?php

$ticker_text = $_POST['ticker_text'];

$ticker_file = "ticker.txt";
$fh = fopen($ticker_file, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $ticker_text);
fclose($fh);
echo $ticker_text;

?>
and on any html page you want the ticker text: <?php include("ticker.txt");?> e.g:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div id="ticker"><?php include("ticker.txt");?></div>
</body>
</html>
jscheuer1
04-28-2016, 03:44 PM
This is an interesting thread, I'd just like to point out that the process php file should also be protected. htaccess could do that for the entire folder, making access to the form page protected as well. Or, at the very least, the login values should be passed forward to the process page along with the new text, where they would be validated again before any files are written to. Finally, if there's even just a chance more than one person would be writing to the file at the same time, it should be locked while doing so.