How come a fix to the file manager

[wizardsandwars]

A very high percentage of the problems that people are having with osC is that they try to edit php files with the file editor the osC provides them with. And, as many people know, the file manager the comes with osC doesn't work, at least not properly. It often strips the escape characters out of text.

 

I guess my problem is, if it's not going to be fixed, then there should either be a warning, or it should be removed.

[FalseDawn]

Agreed, junking it and including a short tutorial on how to use FTP would be better.

Likewise with the backup feature and phpMyAdmin

[MartinEvans]

Also agree, I know someone that took a live site out because they didn't use it in test and just needed a quick low impact change on the fly. Until I just saw this post I thought it may have been their browser/osc version.

[MartinEvans]

Is the backup feature also broken? or do I just need to create the directory?

[OceanRanch]

And the fix to file_manager.php should be quite easy. (Not tested though).

 

line 50

 

fputs($fp, stripslashes($HTTP_POST_VARS['file_contents']));

 

should be

 

fputs($fp, $HTTP_POST_VARS['file_contents']);

 

Tom

[FalseDawn]

Is the backup feature also broken? or do I just need to create the directory?

 

No, I don't think so, my comment was alluding to the fact that I can go into phpAdmin, create a backup script and SFTP all my site files to a secure backup server in the time it takes most people to login to the admin app.