More than one input to a form question - how to process?

[smithster]

lol, well the 3rd edit killed it!! Outputs all on 1 line again now!! Also, no passwords output at all!!!

Didn't realise you wern't able to test this out. No worries if you want to look at it later.

I Appreciate the time you have spent on this one anyway.

[Jas]

It's no problem at all. My college finals are over, and this is kinda fun (I know, my life is sad). But yeah, I'll look at it tonight if that's okay. Good luck! Maybe you can fix it before me. If yuo can't, I think I had that problem with a script I wrote a while back and I might be able to dig up my solution if I need to-- it's at home of course

EDIT: BTW did this work:

echo "Name: ".preg_replace("/\n/","",$names[$i])." Password: ".preg_replace("/\n/","",$passwords[$i]); 

[smithster]

lol, hey, people can say what they want!! I been doing this for around a year now. Still a noob I know!! But I'm learning, and enjoying what I'm getting out of it. But this is why I don't post the real scripts so that I can learn by using examples like this. The actual script itself will be used to auto write a .htaccess file and a .htpasswd file for a user upon request.

Anyway, no worries, I'll keep knocking my head on the desk in the hope I might spot the problem!! I'm not well experienced though with any of the preg commands. But we'll see what happens.

Thanks again.

Smithster.

[Jas]

This code worked for me. Produced

Joey:joey101
Bobby:bobby99
Mike:mikes-the-man

Here it is:

<?php

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){

   if(@preg_match("/\r/",$_POST['names'])){
      $names = preg_split("/\r/",$_POST['names']);
      $passwords = preg_split("/\r/",$_POST['passwords']);
   }else if(@preg_match("/\n/",$_POST['names'])){
      $names = preg_split("/\n/",$_POST['names']);
      $passwords = preg_split("/\n/",$_POST['passwords']);
   }

   for($i=0; $i<count($names) || $i<count($passwords);$i++){
      echo ''.preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$names[$i]).':'.preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$passwords[$i]).'<br>';
   }

}else{
   echo '<form method = "POST" action = "">';
   echo '<p>Names</p>';
   echo '<p><textarea rows="10" name="names" cols="37"></textarea></p>';
   echo '<p>Passwords</p>';
   echo '<p><textarea rows="10" name="passwords" cols="37"></textarea></p>';
   echo '<p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit"></p>';
   echo '</form>';
}
?>

[smithster]

Sorry for long reply. Been at work all day. Thanks for building this up for me. Works very well. Except for 1 thing!! If a user only puts in 1 username and password, the output is only the first letter of each word.

e.g.

output is
e:s

Also, next part I am trying to do is encode the password.

$passwd = crypt($passwords, base64_encode($passwords)); 

That's the command used to encode passwords suitable for .htaccess. I tried to put it into the script but it's throwing errors out at me.

Any ideas on both of the above?

Thanks again for all your help with this.

Smithster.

[Jas]

Here is the fix to the old script:

<?php 

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){ 

$names = array();
$passwords = array();

   if(@preg_match("/\r/",$_POST['names'])){ 
      $names = preg_split("/\r/",$_POST['names']); 
      $passwords = preg_split("/\r/",$_POST['passwords']); 
   }else if(@preg_match("/\n/",$_POST['names'])){ 
      $names = preg_split("/\n/",$_POST['names']); 
      $passwords = preg_split("/\n/",$_POST['passwords']); 
   }else{
      $names[] = $_POST['names'];
      $passwords[] = $_POST['passwords'];
   }

   for($i=0; $i<count($names) || $i<count($passwords);$i++){ 
      echo ''.preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$names[$i]).':'.preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$passwords[$i]).'<br>'; 
   }

}else{ 
   echo '<form method = "POST" action = "">'; 
   echo '<p>Names</p>'; 
   echo '<p><textarea rows="10" name="names" cols="37"></textarea></p>'; 
   echo '<p>Passwords</p>'; 
   echo '<p><textarea rows="10" name="passwords" cols="37"></textarea></p>'; 
   echo '<p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit"></p>'; 
   echo '</form>'; 
} 
?>

The problem was that it thought, since there were no breaks, that the string was an array. So, char 1 was element 1. Interesting error, and a good catch by you.
I'll get the crypt in a moment.

[smithster]

Nice one Jas, really does work well now

Thanks again.

[Jas]

That's why I got an "A" in my programing class , lol. Here is what you might do for encryption:

for($i=0; $i<count($names) || $i<count($passwords);$i++){  
      echo ''.preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$names[$i]).':'.crypt(preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$passwords[$i]),CRYPT_EXT_DES).'<br>';  
   } 

Let me know if that works. Now, you should not only use that. You should also get creative and encrypt it in other ways-- no one should know how your process of encryption works. One thing you can do in use preg_replace() to replace letters, and then do the crypt function again.

Also, how are you going to unencrypt it if your using htaccess?

[smithster]

Nice one, really wish they taught it at my school. But they didn't. Left college not knowing anything about html let alone PHP. Have had to learn it all by myself really. And with the help of forums too. Used to leach scripts off others but then decided it wasn't nice and I should try to create my own!!

Your coding there almost worked but had to change the encription method to mine.

.htaccess files apparently use one type of encription. So I've heard. I don't understand much of the wording of the .htaccess file. Just know what it does!! The script I'm writing, maybe I'll pm it to you just so you can see what you have helped me to achieve!!

I believe I now have enough information to get this script completed.

Thanks again for all your help. You've been the most helpful with this, and I've asked this on 2 forums!! This one was second. But I haven't had any answer on the other forum!!

Smithster.

Edit.....

Well I seem to have hit another milestone!!!
The part in this script where it echoes out, I generally echo out first as a test to make sure I get the right result. In order to write the output to a file, I have to create a variable to store it in. If I do this....

for($i=0; $i<count($names) || $i<count($passwords);$i++){ 
//echo ''.preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$names[$i]).':'.crypt(preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$passwords[$i]),base64_encode).'<br>';
$content = ''.preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$names[$i]).':'.crypt(preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$passwords[$i]),base64_encode).'<br>';
echo $content;
$file = fopen("/home/psmith83/public_html/test/test.htpasswd", "w");

fwrite($file, '' . $content . '');

fclose($file);
} 

$content is output on screen in the correct way. But the file that's created does not look right. Even though I'm telling it to output $content on screen, and then write it to a file. Strange in my eyes, but maybe an error on my part! In the file, it's only writing the last username and password. Also, it's putting <br> at the end of it too!!

Anything you can see wrong with this?

Once again, really appreciating your help on this, I just didn't expect to be facing this problem!!

Thanks

Smithster.

[Jas]

EDIT Sorry, misread the code.

The reason it won't work is because it keeps overwriting the file.
Put the fwrite outside of the loop, and concat the data in the $content var, like so:

for($i=0; $i<count($names) || $i<count($passwords);$i++){  
//echo ''.preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$names[$i]).':'.crypt(preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$passwords[$i]),base64_encode).'<br>'; 
$content .= ''.preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$names[$i]).':'.crypt(preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$passwords[$i]),base64_encode).'<br>'; 
}
echo $content; 
$file = fopen("/home/psmith83/public_html/test/test.htpasswd", "w"); 
fwrite($file, '' . $content . ''); 
fclose($file); 

This way it does it all at once. I asume you know what the concat ('.') does, but incase you don't:

$var = 1;
$var=2;
echo $var;//outputs 2
$var .= 1; //concat 1-- makes value 21
echo $var; //outputs 21 

As far as the class, it wan't that great. I am a self taught programer too, as are many on DD as far as I know.

EDIT2: Note: you can also append the info in the file fopen('file','a') (a instead of w) but doing it after is better in this case--or so I think.