[cebuy]

I want some code that can open an html file like "index.html" and replace all the text between some set comments like <!-- Start Here --!> and ends at <!-- End Insert Here--> like amany guestbooks do. Example:

<!-- Start Here --!>
Yesterday's results
<!-- End Insert Here-->

with
<!-- Start Here --!>
today's results
<!-- End Insert Here-->

I will be drawing the text from a mysql database that is a list of results. I know we use fopen() & fclose() to open & close a file according to what I read but not really sure about the best way to approach this. I thought about croning it. BUt not sure about how to delete all text in between the 2 comments first.

I think I would start with

PHP Code:

$fp = fopen("index.html","r+"); 

// r+ being opening the file to read and write



//  2nd Step: How do I find the <!-- Start Here --!> code 

//  in the file and delete it all up to the 

//  <!-- End Insert Here--> code?



//  3nd Step: How do I insert the new results output within

// the <!-- Start Here --!> to <!-- End Insert Here--> code?



// close file

fclose("$fp"); 

I want the entire index page to stay the same but for the text between the comments to change...

[Acecool]

File_get_contents for file contents to variable..

Then, preg replace <!-- blah -->(*.?)<!-- End Blah --> with new result, same var as file_get_contents, then fwrite

[feha]

Try this:

Code:

<?
//By www.vision.to

$new_text="HELLO BABY!";

$Text="
NOT HEADER
<!-- Start Here --!>
CHANGE ME!
<!-- End Insert Here-->
NOT FOOTER
";
$Text =preg_replace("/\<!-- Start Here --!>(.+?)\<!-- End Insert Here-->/is",$new_text,$Text);
echo  $Text;
?>