John Davidson

Message:

I am trying to parse a space form an input field in a txt file with file_put_contents but i do not succeed in it with htmlentities.

<?php

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {

    if( isset($_POST['translation']) ) {  

        $translation = htmlentities($_POST['translation']);

        

        $translation_input = $translation.PHP_EOL;

        

        $translationfile = 'data/translations.txt';     

        file_put_contents($translationfile, $translation_input);                        

    }

}

?>



<form action="<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="POST" role="form">                                                                    

    <input class="form-control" name="translation" type="text" value="" />                                                                                                                                                  

    <button type="submit" name="submit" class="btn btn-primary w-100">UPDATE/TRANSLATE</button>                                 

</form>

per example if i first type a space in the input and after the text test
my txt file looks like this:

 test

and it should be

 test

How can i achieve this?

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My Answer:
To parse a PHP file, you can use the `parse_ini_file()` function. This function parses a configuration file and returns the settings in an associative array. Here's an example of how to use it:

php
// Load the configuration file
$config = parse_ini_file('config.ini');

// Access the settings in the configuration file
echo $config['username'];
echo $config['password'];


In this example, we are loading a configuration file called `config.ini` and accessing the settings in the file using the associative array returned by `parse_ini_file()`. You can then use these settings in your PHP code as needed.