Come on guys and girls please...

Anon

OK this is my 3rd and final try on this forum with this request:
After reading most of the postings on here I know some of you are experts in php so i will ask one last tiem for some help with some code.
what I am after is a form that places the input into a file, then I want to be able to access the content of this file so i can pace that data on ay page on my web site.
I have tried myself but have not had any luck since I am new at this, at to be honest I am here now because i need to come up with a solution for my problemby tomorrow for work. So please guys any of you who have any ideas please paste the whole code and instructions for me.
Mant Thanks

The Don

PS fee free to e-mail me if you dont understand what i am on about 🙂

Anon

Reason you dont get many replies is because people don't want to do your work for you. People/Experts are here to point you in the right direction, show you where you can find the information to learn from.

Getting from file:
$path="whatever.txt";
if(file_exists($path) == 0) {
return "Damn";
}
else
{
$filesize = filesize($path);
$filenum = fopen($path,"r");
$filecontent = fread($filenum, $filesize);
fclose($filenum);
}
That will get you some stuff into $filecontent

read http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php
Now that you see a little bit youll have to read on unless someone else wants to show writing to this file.

but you make a form
<form method=post action=dapage.php>
<input type=text name=thevariable>
have submit button
</form>

then when it goes to that php page
you get your varialbes
$allvars=$thevariable." ".$thenext...
put them all in one string then just write that to a file.

Hope someone pastes you your answer but i have shown you the door, you are the one that must walk through it.

toma42

Well, you're asking us to post complete code for you for your work, which you get paid for, but you're asking us to volunteer to do your job.

That's one reason I hadn't responded before now. Another would be your problem is elementary and could be solved by a time investment in the php manual looking at functions like print_r or globally created arrays like $HTTP_POST_VARS or error_log.

Many people here (myself included) are available for contract work if you need complete scripts written for your custom work.

Tom

Anon

Slave
Thank you for the honest reply and your help.I understand that people do not want to do my work for me, but php is new to me I have ut myself in a situtation were I need to get something done quickly and I dont have the time ti read up aout it all at this moment.
What I was asking would take an expert 5mins to do as were it would take me a few hours to do, it was not a hard problem.
My field of expertise is in streaming media, ask me anythng about that and I can tell you.

Anyway I do plan and will know php very well in the near future.
One again thank you for your time and understanding 🙂)))
TheDon

Anon

: Tom Anderson
Thanks for your honesty Tom
If you read the message to Slave you will understand were I am coming from, it is not a matter of me not reading the manual (I am at the moment) but as I am sure you are aware these things are not learnt over night. What I was asking for was not a hard complex thing, it was just something that I was having problems with being new, and I know an expert out there it would take 5 mins.
i could understand you being upset if I was asking for a full database driven script (which I never would) but lets be honest it was a simple request i was asking for.
Onece again I sorry if I have upset anybody on this forum with my actions and please be assured I am learning php, but only as of yesterday.
regarding the comment people ding my paid work for me, i am in the streaming Media business, I put myself in a situtation (which i wish i had though about first) were I required a bit of help. the php work I have done so far I ave done on my own be it simple i just ran into a problem now that id why I put in the rquest for help :9

Thanks again guys and girls and i am sorry if I have upset or offended anyone 🙂
TheDon

yelvington

Saving data into a file, and including it in a PHP page, is trivial. See the filesystem functions in the manual.
An example usage is here:

http://yelvington.com/annotate.php3

Anon

Don, whichever way you twist this issue, the fact remains that experts want to see that you've tried and failed, eg. by posting some code, etc. Then they can help you.

The fact that what you're asking is trivial means you haven't done any homework on it at all. If time is a constraint like you said, then pay somebody to do it for you.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.file.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

Richie.

egervari

matrix! I love it 🙂

egervari

i disagree.. something like that is pretty easy and there is tutorials on this very site that show how to do stuff like that i bet. If you've done it before in C or Java or anything else, it would have been pretty simple to do it in php too. I think you should learn some more about programming in general probably and then tackle php as most of the stuff will be very confortable to you and you'll learn on something that doesn't reach out to databases or xml or mail or any of that fun stuff. You'll learn the good old fashion basics.

peace.

Anon

If it wasn't due tomorrow Id whip something that worked up, but ive got some stuff to take care of tonight.

If your boss doesn't relieve you tomorrow then post a reply here ill see if i can get time to break it out by friday. I may require some media software in return 😉 I want to get some VR Quicktime, and the full version of quicktime to do some things.

Anon

Well, when I first read your post, at

http://www.phpbuilder.net/forum/read.php3?num=2&id=128305&loc=0&thread=128305

I replied with a possible solution, wich is, to safe the data into a text file, or a database..

you replied my post, with a request for some code..

as I don't agree that doing someone else's home/work will get that person PROGRAMMING, I replied with a set of functions, and say what you could do with each one of them..

I also pointed out the url to the file system reference in PHPs manual..

you then replied that you 'would' check the site.. and asked for some code..

now.. did you check the reference ? No.. you wanted an easy way out..
did you try to use the functions I said ? Guess not, since you haven't shown any code with mistakes/errors/not-working-for-some-reason..

So.. why should I care, if you don't ?

One other thing, you keed saying you are new with PHP.. but that IS NOT a PHP only related question.. it's a logic problem, and you should try to learn howto think about some simple algorithms and then start learning a specific language from bottom..

programming is not only about knowing some language functions..

it's about finding a solution to a problem, (using some language's functions..)

one other thing, if you read the anotated manual, at php.net/manual, you'll find lots of examples, people (like myself) have post there.. almost every function as comments and examples..

walk the way.. don't expect people to take you on their back..

bmpco

but it's actually true.. 😉

Anon

I totally agree with you and as you can see from my latest post at http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=2&id=128496&loc=0&thread=128496
I took your advice and tried myself.

Thanks 🙂