modifying html by using form input from a user

[warby1212]

HI,
This is really simple content management I suppose. I want to let a user input some text via a form which updates text in a web page. I thought I would get the string from the user and then open the html page read through, it to a tag and then replace the existing text (up to an end tag) with the new text. Is this the way to go? Should I open it and make a change and then close it, or open and read out the whole file into a string and make a change to that and then write the whole thing back in? One more question, what would the handy functions for string replacement/comparison be.
Thanks for any help.

I should write something here.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Yes, that would be a simple template base content management. If the placeholder is a constant ( like "{usertext}" ), the [tt]str_replace()[/tt] function will do the job. But if the placeholder has variable format ( like "{usertext title}" or "{usertext article}" ) then [tt]ereg_replace()[/tt] or [tt]preg_replace()[/tt] could be for more help.

Feherke.

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