Simple PHP editor of text files

Question

I have developed a site for a client and he wants to be able to edit a small part of the main page in a backend type of solution. So as a solution, I want to add a very basi

Answer 1

You create a HTML form to edit the text-file's content. In case it get's submitted, you update the text-file (and redirect to the form again to prevent F5/Refresh warnings):

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    exit();
}

// read the textfile
$text = file_get_contents($file);

?>


<?php echo htmlspecialchars($text) ?>