hi im building a file management system for a CMS im making, and im not sure hwo to go about how to top this script from also opening images and that.

have a look here
http://dev.dansgalaxy.co.uk/cms/dev/...emo_jquery.php you can open them and view ocntents in the text area.. but how could i stop images and files like that which arnt text based from opening

Also if anyone knows, i want ot have it colour the code as well so like the syntax and stuff (must be xhtml valid)

Well, I'm not sure what you would have to do with that script to make it so only certain files can be opened. Is it your own code, or did you adapt it from something you found on the internet?

As for the source code highlighter, you might be able to adapt this into your site. It's just something that I found poking around the internet, so it might now be what you want, though.

the file tree no its a script (which you can actually see if you look )

and the rest i made

just looked at the script, i might be able to simplfy it so ic an use it for my purpose thanks not sure how i could get it inside the textarea tho

Hmm im a bit worried about the safty of this script, you should use post variable instead of url variable because a hacker could easily find how to use your url variable to edit any files on the server.

but how could i stop images and files like that which arnt text based from opening

1st solution: Don't show your files that aren't text based in your tree. I suppose you use some kind of loop to show it so you just have to exclude files that do not have the right file extension. Personally i would still show them but i wouldn't make a link for them.

2nd solution: you prolly have a $path variable or something similar with the path of the file to show in the textarea, you can hide your textarea or redirect or whatever you want if its the wrong file type.

To code this there are tons of way, here is the lazy way ;D, prolly not the best.

By the way, since
$path = 'myfile.html';



$findme1 = '.html';
$res1 = strpos($path , $findme1);
$findme2 = '.htm';
$res2 = strpos($path , $findme2);
$findme3 = '.php';
$res3 = strpos($path , $findme3);

//Then you continue for evry other type of file you want

if (($res1 === true) || ($res2 === true) || ($res3 === true)) {

//show your textarea



}
else{

// hide your textarea or redirect
}

By the way, id sudgest you to use a richtextbox instead of a textbox. you can do it yourself with the execCommand function and some simple javascript or you can find one free on the net.

Here is one:
http://www.htmlarea.com/

Well the file tree is done, via a seperate script (which you can actually see in the files)

and i just use their functions like ([doc root]/cms/) or i could tell it to do what ever

im not too worried about security as once this is all in the CMS it wil have the security of that, and i want to get it functioning as i want then ill worry about it more

for this i am dont really want a wysiwyg for it, as the purpose of this is to manually edit the scripts.

I will however be using one for the content maker section when i develop it

and after alot of thought and writing my ideas and stuff for it down on paper (during this mornings maths lesson.. ) i decided i dont want to excldue files from the tree but want to handle how they displayed where my text area is,
so basically i want to be able to have two arrays one with img ext one with txt dox ext (php/html etc) and then if the file ext is a text doc it shows my code editor if it is a image it displays it, and it it is somethign else it shows a mesage.

i really want to have my code highlighted and i stumbled accross a php function highlight_file() which highlifghts it perfectly

only problem is when it is within the textarea it shows the tags used to colour it, and when i save it saves the tags too and also means the script becomes un useable. so i need a way to parse the highlighter tags and not the rest and also when saving to ignore the highlighter tags