I am trying to find a way to search through a page in php to replace the names of form elements.
I guess I should explain. I'm doing a job for a friend and I want to make an easy database updater that is robust and can withstand adding elements without the person knowing much about php or databases.
In short, I want to search through a form and replace all the name="%name%" with the respective database table key names, so I can use a simple foreach method to update the table.
So I was looking at the DOMDocument element to open an html page and replace every form name inside in order with the corresponding table keys, but I wasn't sure if I can open a php page with loadHTMLfile or not. And, if I could open up a php page, would opening itself cause an infinite loop? Or would it just parse the html as if it were looking at client-side html?
Is there any way to do what I want? If not, that's OK, I'll just make it a little less awesome, but I was just wondering.