PHP - How To Get Text To Wrap Around Divs

I need to wrab <b> tags around the current Letter (If they clicked on it)

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$letters = range('A', 'Z');
$menu=(empty($menu))?'':$menu;
$menu.='<center><div class=pages>Starts With: ';
foreach ($letters as $letter) {

    $menu .= '<a href="?a=(^_-)&muffin='. $letter .'">'. $letter .'</a>'." &bull; ";
}
$menu.= '</div></center>';

if ( isset( $_GET['muffin'] ) AND in_array($_GET['muffin'], $letters ) ){
   
    // CONNECT TO DATABASE AND QUERY
    $q_extra .= " AND m.name LIKE '".mysql_escape_string($_GET['muffin'])."%'";
    // DO QUERY AND CHURN OUT RESULTS
   
    }

I tried

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if ($_GET['muffin'] == $letter){
$boldtag1 = '<b>';
$boldtag2= '</b>';
}
I tried that inside my foreach and it's not working, it shows the bold stuff all over, not around the current selection ?

Anyone can chime on this one for me? ty

Current selection I mean around the '.$letter.' so it looks nice and bolded if clicked on

got this function in php.net i guess


function mywordwrap($string)
{
$length = strlen($string);

for ($i=0; $i<=$length; $i=$i+1)
    {
    $char = substr($string, $i, 1);
    if ($char == "<")
        $skip=1;
    elseif ($char == ">")
        $skip=0;
    elseif ($char == " ")
        $wrap=0;

    if ($skip==0)
        $wrap=$wrap+1;

    $returnvar = $returnvar . $char;

    if ($wrap>8) // alter this number to set the maximum word length
        {
        $returnvar = $returnvar . "<wbr>";
        $wrap=0;
        }
    }

return $returnvar;

} 

 
after using this when i try to validate my page in http://validator.w3.org i get this error

Line 124, Column 38: end tag for "wbr" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
  <td width="15%">sdfasdfsdfadfddfdfsafasd<wbr>a</td>
✉
You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".

what is the fix for this?

I have made a classified website. it works and I am proud of it. But as far as securing it goes, I have done almost nothing and I am sure, if in case the site becomes popular, it would be compromised with ease.

So I have started reading a book ' essential php security' and am reading several articles on php security online , but am still unable to wrap my head around the whole security issue.

Can someone help me ? there are a lot of unfamiliar topics, filtering, escaping , validating, session hijacking etc etc and it all goes over my head.

Its a classified website , considering this on what should I concentrate on as far as security goes ? 
btw what I have managed to do is use mysql_real_escape_string on every var going into a mysql $query.

Thanks

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hello, im trying to see if there is a function that can get the value of the last row in mysql and see what is in field initial (this is letters A-Z) and make it one letter higher.  then, when it reaches letter Z, wrap around to A again.

Hello all , here is another problem of my project.

I need to create a textarea , drop down list and submit button .

At first , I can type whatever I want in the textarea , but for certain part I can just choose the word I want from drop down list and click submit , then the word will appear in the textarea as my next word .

But I have no idea how to make this works , is there any simple example for this function ?
Thanks for any help provided .

Hi i have this edit form that allows user to mofy data but the problems on the text box is that it deletes the rest of the data after the space from the first word i tried to increase the size of the varChars on mysql but did no work why it happens how can i stop from happening??

this the form input
<input type="text" name="name" id="name"  class='text_box' value="<?php echo $_GET['name'];?>"/>

I'd like to use a text editor like this one: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/full.php for my forums.


But I am not sure exactly how I would prevent abuse and injects to messed up the page, rather than being contained in  the designated area it is meant for.


Could some   one please help me, I know htmlspecailchars will not work, since some of the code needs to render as html 

I currently am working on a project where I code a "simple" telephone directory.

There are three main tasks that it needs to do:
1. Directory.php(index page) has a "First Name" and "Last Name" field and a search button. When a name is searched from the directory.txt file, it displays First Name, Last Name, Address, City, State, Zip and phone in findinfo.php in designated text boxes...first name, last name, etc.

2. From the findinfo.php, like previously stated, the users information is listed in the appropriate text boxes. From there, there is an update button that will overwrite the user's information to directory.txt if that button is selected. It will then say the write was sucessful.

3. (completed this step) From the index page, there is a link that will take you to addnew.php where you enter First Name, Last Name, Address, City, State, Zip and phone in a web form and write it to directory.txt.

 This is the php code for the third step:

<?php
$newentryfile = fopen("directory.txt", "a+");
$firstname = $_POST['fname'];
$lastname = $_POST['lname'];
$address = $_POST['address'];
$city = $_POST['city'];
$state = $_POST['state'];
$zip = $_POST['zip'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$newentry = "$firstname $lastname\n\r $address\n\r $city, $state $zip\n\r $phone\n\r";
if (flock($newentryfile, LOCK_EX)) {
if (fwrite($newentryfile, $newentry) > 0)
echo "<p>" . stripslashes($firstname) . " " .
 stripslashes($lastname) . " has been added to the directory.</p>";
else
echo "<p>Registration error!</p>";
flock($newentryfile, LOCK_UN);
}
else
echo "<p>Cannot write to the file. Please try again later</p>";
fclose($newentryfile);

if(empty($firstname) || empty($lastname) || empty($address) || empty($city) || empty ($state) || empty($zip) || empty($phone))
{
echo "<p>Please go back and fill out all fields.</p>";
}
?>


So to sum it all up, what would be my best approach? I am totally stumped and not sure which function to use. Should I work my way from step 1 to step 2? I see it as when I do the search for the name from directory.php, it takes me to findinfo.php, listing the users information in the text boxes. From there, if I needed to, having the user's information already listed I could hit the update button to overwrite the new information to directory.txt. Doing the update when then tell me that the write was successful.

I have literally been scouring the internet for hours. What would be the best function to do this? I hope I was clear enough. Please help me out and thank you for your time.

Hi there.

How do I reflect the text content of the variable $a in this text form:

<input type="text" name="artist">

Regards Morris

Ok i have been working on this for a day+ now. here is my delema

simple .ini text file. when a user makes a change (via html form) it makes the correct adjustments.
problem is the newline issue

1. if i put a "\n" at the end (when using fputs) works great, except everytime they edit the file it keeps adding a new line (i.e. 10 edits there are now 10 blank lines!!!!)
2. if i leave off the "\n" it appends the next "fgets" to that lilne making a mess

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##-- Loop thruoght the ORIGINAL file
    while( ! feof($old))
    {
        ##-- Get a line of text
        $aline = fgets($old);
       
        ##-- We only need to check for "="
        if(strpos($aline,"=") > 0 )
        {
            ##-- Write NEW data to tmp file
            fputs($tmp,$info[$i]." = ".$rslt[$i]."\n");
            $i++;
        }
        ##-- No Match
        else
        {
            fputs($tmp,$aline."\n");
        }//Checking for match
    }//while eof(old)
   

what in the world is making this such a big deal. i dont remember having this issue in the past
I tried opening with w+, and just w on the temp file

a typical text line would be

some fieldname = some value

the scipt cycles through the file ignoring comments that are "#"


ps
the tmp file will overwrite the origianl once complete

all i really want to know is WHY i cant get the newline to work, and what is the suggested fix

EDIT:
i just tried PHP_EOL and it still appends another newline

I’m trying to construct a button that simply writes an "aleph" character into a text area, see below. My code does not work, can anyone tell me why ? How should I fix it ?

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<head>
<title>Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
      //JavaScript code goes here
function insertAtEnd(text)
{
  var theArea = document.getElementById("thisArea");
  theArea.value += '' + text + '';;
 
}            
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" id="aleph" name="aleph" value="Write an aleph"
onClick="javascript:insertAtEnd(\'<span>&#x05D0;</span>\');return(false)" />
<textarea id="thisArea">  </textarea>


</body>
</html>

Hi,

I am writing several scripts and some are used to amend extra information to a text file. However, I added a hyperlink to the text file so that the user can go back to a page where they can add extra information. However, since I have done this every time I amend more text to the text file, the extra text appears below the hyperlink rather than above it, and I was wondering if there was a way around this.

My amend code is as follows:

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<html>
<head>
<title>Amend File</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" a href="rcm/stylesheet.css">
</head>
<?php

if($_POST['append'] !=null)
{
$filename="C:/xampp/htdocs/rcm/denman2.txt";
$file=fopen($filename, "a");
$msg="<p>Updated Information: " .$_POST['append']. "</p><br>";
fputs ($file, $msg);
fclose($file);
}
?>
<body>
<h1>Do you want to append to a document?</h1>
Enter Updated Information:
<form action="amendfile2.php" method="post">
<input type="text" size="40" name="append"><br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Add updated information to report">
</form>
<form action="viewfile3.php" method="post">
<input type="submit" size="40" value="View Web Blog">
</form>
<form action="loginform.php" method="post">
<input type="submit" value="Click here to go to the Log In Screen">
</form>
</body></html>

And my text file is as follows:
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<h1>Accident Report</h1>

<p>First Name: Andrew
Last Name: Denman
Age: 18
Complete Weeks Since Accident: 2<br>

<a href="amendfile2.php">Amend to this file</a>

Any help would be appreciated

 I have parsed a HTML file using DOMDocument.Now I want to wrap the Node with <span> tag so that instead of "<input type=textbox>" it will be "<span><input type=textbox></span>"

Thanks in advance

CSJakharia