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copied!<p>I am working on a script to edit a file on my vps, so far thanks to the help from a user here I have the following:</p> <pre><code> <?php if(!empty($_REQUEST['color_choice'])){ exec('sed -i '.escapeshellarg('s/color=.*/color='.$_REQUEST['color_choice'].'/g')." /home/user/colors/color.choices"); echo 'File color choice has been updated'; } ?> <form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"> <select name="color_choice">; <option value="red">red</option>; <option value="blue">blue</option>; <option value="black">black</option>; <option value="orange">orange</option>; </select> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /> </form> </code></pre> <p>This changes the values as needed but I have one issue I am still trying to solve. The script does not get the current value that is in the file itself, so when I first visit the page it always says "red". After I make a change it still says "red" on the php form.</p> <p>Edit: I would like the form to always display the current value in the color.choices file, instead of just going back to "red" every time. If I change the value on the form to "blue" I want the form to display that the current value in the file is set to "blue".</p> <p>I have been told I need to use "file_get_contents" to first retrieve the value from the file itself. I have made a few attempts but I am getting no where. If I need to add more information please let me know!</p>

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