Posted by jerrygarciuh on 08/15/06 12:06

Hi Rik,

Thanks for the reply! My problem is that the index file of the site
must be backed up and then replaced by a non-technical person with only
browser access to the site. What I could do is have my script write to
a text file a 1 or 0 and use an index like you describe but rather than
it depending on a query string it could look at my text file.

Thanks for the thoughts!

JG

Rik wrote:
> jerrygarciuh wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The following script is giving me weird problems. I have in this
> > directory an index.php and hurricane.php.
> >
> > If the script gets $i = 'on' it is supposed to back up the current
> > index into a file called normal.php and then copy hurricane.php into
> > index.php. This should create a backup of the index and then put the
> > hurrican alert in place.
> >
> > When the script gets $i = 'off' it should replace the index with the
> > contents of normail.php.
> >
> > What is happening is that at the end of running with $i = 'on' both
> > index.php and normal.php have the contents of hurricane.php.
> >
> > Can anyone see why? copy() is returning a 1 every time.
> >
> > if ($_GET['i'] == 'on') {
> > $result = copy('index.php', 'normal.php');
> > if ($result == 1) {
> > $result .= copy('hurricane.php', 'index.php');
> > } else {
> > $result = 'File Copy Failed!';
> > }
> > } else if ($_GET['i'] == 'off') {
> > $result = copy('normal.php', 'index.php');
> > }
>
> You do realize that after 2 pageviews all three files will contain the
> content of the chosen condition?
>
> I'd think this is an unusually complicated manner to get the desired result.
>
> why not create an index.php, consisting only of:
> <?php
> if(!isset($_GET['i']) || $_GET['i']=='off'){
> include('./normal.php');
> } else {
> include('./hurricane.php');
> }
> ?>
>
> Possibly getting your value for hurricane on/off from a database, an
> ini-file, etc...
>
> Grtz,
> --
> Rik Wasmus

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