Question

I’m trying to change a javascript file without having to connect via ftp. Therefore i’m using a textarea, where you fill the code in, submit it, and then the content of the textbox is saved to a file on the server (here called ender.js) .

here’s my html, javascript and php (i’m using jquery)

html:

<form>
    <textarea id="result" rows="50" cols="150"></textarea> 
    <input id="submit_btn" type="submit" value="Submit"/>
    </form>

javascript:

$('#submit_btn').click(function() {
        //alert("Handler for .click() called.");
        $.ajax({
          type: 'POST',
          url: 'opener.php',
          data: {test: $('#result').val()},
          success: function() {
            $('#result').load('js/ender.js');
            alert('Load was performed.');
          },
          error: function() {
            alert('error in: ' + settings.url + ' \n'+'error:\n' + xhr.responseText );
          }

        });
    });

php:

<?php
    //echo $_POST['test'];
    $fp = fopen('js/ender.js', 'w');
    fwrite($fp, $_POST['test']);
    fclose($fp);
?>

if the textarea contains a ; (point-comma) the file does not change. Why is that?

*edit *

The mistake was in the javascript file.

data: {test: $('#result').val()},

should have been

data: {'test': $('#result').val()},

however I still have an issue if the textarea contains a point-comma “;”

Answer 1

This is surly because it is cached in your browser. I had similar problems. Try to change the filename with a random name or with a parameter like js/ender.js?rnd=123123