[thelist] Edit textfiles in textareas?
Simon Willison
cs1spw at bath.ac.uk
Sat Sep 27 07:08:04 CDT 2003
Ken Moore wrote:
> That was close enough to help. The exact code is:
>
> <textarea><?php echo $file_contents ?></textarea>
In fact, that could lead to problems if the text file you are editing
contains HTML - in particular a </textarea> tag. To avoid those
problems, do this:
<textarea><?php echo htmlspecialchars($file_contents); ?></textarea>
Cheers,
Simon
http://simon.incutio.com/
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