createing a .txt from a .php

Anon

I have been having a problem with a job posting page that i have. I have a php page that lists all the jobs called alljobs.php3. This is from a postgresql database which is actually irrelevant (I think).

Anyway what I am trying to do is take all the data from the php page, strip all the php and html code and print it to a file called alljobs.txt (or idealy alljobs.doc). I then want a link on the alljobs.php3 page to this .txt (or .doc) file so people can get a .txt (or .doc) copy of this page.

I have been trying this using fopen and fgetss but have been failing miserably. Does anyone have any suggestions.

Thanks.
Tim.

Anon

Why don't you just create a link on "alljobs.php3" to another script called, say, "alljobstxt.php3". The new script would have code similar to "alljobs.php3" to retrieve the information from the database but would send a header() directive indicating a mime type of "text/plain". You could then just "echo()" the text formatted information from the script and it would be sent to the browser as a plain text file generated 'on the fly'.

-- Rich --

Anon

I added a header() to the alljobstxt.php3 page and it now shows all text. Thanks you,

What I would like to do with that is copy all the text into a word doc. I have this right now:

<?
$source = file("alljobstxt.php3");
for($i=0;$i<count($source);$i++) {
if ($sucess = fopen("jobs.doc", "a")) {
fputs($sucess, $source[$i]);
}
}
?>

This writes to the word doc but it is the php script not the actual data. I want to write the data that is pulled from the database to the word doc. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Tim.

Anon

...Use "alljobstxt.php" to also create your *.doc file.

Somewhere at the top of the script fopen("jobs.doc", "w+"). Then, as you are echo()'ing the data to the browser, add another line that fputs()'s the same text into your "jobs.doc" file. Don't forget to close "jobs.doc" at the end.

This will accomplish your goal of outputting the data to the browser and creating the copy of the data in a file. Even though you create the file with .doc extension, it really* isn't a MicroS___ Word format, but Word should have not problem opening it and the extension will cause Word to autolaunch on most systems if that is what your after.

-- Rich --

Anon

Thank You very Much!!!!

This worked wonderfully.

Tim.