Some questions about guestbook coding

Anon

I am coding a guestbook (that means I'm quite newbie in PHP world ;-) and my problem is the timestamp.

When user writes an entry and submits a form, a timestamp of that moment (submitting a form) should be "captured" and saved for further use (when showing messages). But how to do that? I know it has something to do with date()-function but I dunno better 🙁...

And another question: (I use files, not having db's in use) - how to separate messages? When the msg is written and form submitted and checked, a saving function is used to write the msg into a file like this:
'...fwrite($fp, "Message: $msg \n");

so when loading a page where all entries are (I call it a msg list) should be also an amount of posted messages. So what I have to do to tell the program to separate msg's 🙂

Greetings,
Mikko Tyni
aukioCommunications | www.sivustot.net

jc94062

atm I can only help with the date/time stamp part, the below gives the date and time as $date and $time variables, to customize, go to www.php.net and look up date() and time()...

$month = date ("F");
$daynumber = date ("d");
$daysuffix = date ("S");
$year = date ("Y");
$hour = date ("H");
$minsec = date ("i:s");
$date = ("$daynumber$daysuffix $month $year");
$time = ("$hour:$minsec");

Format...
$date = 14th May 2001
$time = 01:19:33

Hope that helps...

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Anon

one file per entry, named by the time they'r entered (year_month_day_hour_min_sec), you will have a problem when try to sort these files, so remove all the "_"s.