creating madlibs in php

[kavkazi]

I am trying to create a madlibs game ..

 

I have a txt file with paragraphs in it .. Some of the sentences have the following tags in it <#noun>, or <#verb>, etc ...

 

I need to parse the file in php and display the content in between the tags to the user.

 

The user can fill the the words in text box, and the story will be displayed with the new words instead of the tags.

 

I am new to php. Any help greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in Advance,

Vladimir

[Rifts]

create a form with 5, 10, 500 text input fields whatever you want

 

have them be named input1, input2, etc or whatever u want

 

in the madlib just echo the posted value "I was riding my <?= $_POST['input1'];?>, when suddenly a huge ..."

 

also make sure to mysql escape the posted values before echoing them

[kavkazi]

Thanks for your reply Rifts .. but im looking for something else.

 

I need to parse the story for the tags <# ... >

 

The story is in a text file, and it can be replaced with another sotry. Therefor i need to parse the tags and create the form inputs dynamically ..

 

the php should read the story from a txt file .. show all the tags in the story to the user, with ability to provide words in that place.

 

And finally display the story with the replaced words to the user.

 

Thanks

[objnoob]

You'd wanna MySQL Escape, and HTMLspecialchars anything going into the database. You'd only have to htmlspecialchars anything being echo'd to the browser.

 

PHP has a very good set of built-in string parsing functions. Do a google search for parsing strings in using PHP.

[kavkazi]

sorry, I have spent lots of time on google and only got more confused.

 

I would really appreciate if anyone can put this into php code, and I can play around as needed.

 

I don't understand why i need to use sql escape if i dont have a database or table.. its just a txt file with some parapgraphs.

 

Thanks for your help.

[objnoob]

It would be hard for someone to make PHP code to parse your txt file when we not know how your text file is exactly laid out.

 

We know you're not using a database, I just had to blert that out so it would stick with you when you do decide to work with Databases. Since you are accepting user input and showing it on the screen you should be aware of XSS Cross Site Scripting! You should always make sure to validate that the user input has no harmful garbaleegook before doing whatever with it.

[kavkazi]

Attached is an example of a text file

 

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