Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:24:35 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Michael Rottmeier <Michael-Rottmeier@t-online.de> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie question :-| Message-ID: <20040815182435.GA31802@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <000a01c482df$56d60140$0c2a02d9@oemcomputer> References: <000a01c482df$56d60140$0c2a02d9@oemcomputer>
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On 2004-08-15 17:48, Michael Rottmeier <Michael-Rottmeier@t-online.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> my question is not primariyl related to FreeBSD but more to FreeBSD
> and PHP 4.
>
> I'm writing the 2nd version of a larger project in PHP and want to use
> a php command which launches (if the server is a Windows machine) a
> simple text editor; here's what I do if the php script is run on a
> Windows Server:
>
> [code]
> //start Notepad.exe minimized in the background:
> $WshShell = new COM("WScript.Shell");
> $oExec = $WshShell->Run("notepad.exe ,1, false);
> [/code]
>
> I know that the COM command is not supported on FreeBSD according to
> the php manual but I'm searching the web now for hours and hours
> looking for a way to port this piece of code to something working when
> the script is run on a FreeBSD server.
>
> What is important is that the started text editor (here on Windows:
> notepad.exe) should be visible to the user.
This would be a very dangerous thing to allow on a web page. The
implications of running a text editor remotely, with direct access to
the server's filesystem would be horrible.
Are you really, absolutely sure you want to do this?
> Can anybody give me please some clues for this problem?!
A better idea would probably be to present a web-interface for limited
editing of text snippets. Something similar to what a wiki does. You'd
then have control of what the user can edit, which parts of the text he
can edit *AND* get to validate the data when he hits "POST" with your
own logic.
- Giorgos
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