Writing to a File (.txt)

[Anon]

okay, heres another situation 🙂 (i love these things 🙂))

the php manua.chm i have, doesnt really outline and tell you how to do things very well...

i have input forms, and when they submit their info... it goes to a confirm register site... i have done that and the info (for confirmation comes up), how do i make it so that when they hit Yes (all info is correct) that it writes to a .txt file... or what ever the file extension may happen to be...?
thankyou
P. LaPeyre

[khaine]

all you have to do is

<?

$filename="/path/to/file/filename.txt";
$fpr=fopen($filename, "w");
fwrite($fpr, $var1.",".$var2.",".$var3."\n");
fclose($fpr);

?>

repeat the write as many times as you like.

[Anon]

Okay, and if i do that.... because i want the playerlist to show the user info... how do i make it so like....

the $filename will be player1.txt..

how do i make it that if player1.txt is already a file... make $filename = player2.txt and so on for as many players as i need....

thankyou again

[khaine]

you could try

<?

$filename=/path/to/file/filename";
$flag=1;
$playno=1;
while ( $flag == 1 )
{
$chkname=$filename.$playno.".txt";
if ( !file_exists($chkname) )
{
$filename=$chkname;
$flag=0;
}
else
{
$playno++;
}
}

$fpr=fopen($fpr, "w") or die("ERROR file not opened");

echo "the file ".$filename." will be player ".$playno;

fwrite($fpr, $var1.",".$var2);

fclose($fpr);
?>

[Anon]

okay thankyou.... i see i have many months of studying to look at 🙂

[khaine]

If you want some good books have a look on amazon or alphabet street. A book I can strongly recommend is the Visual Quickstart Guide to PHP. quite a cheap book and it teaches a lot in a little space.

[kparker]

As far as the coding goes, he'd be far better advised to try:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$basename='/path/to/file/filename';

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;for ( $playno=1; ; $playno++; )
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$userfile=$basename.$playno.'.txt';
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if ( !file_exists($userfile) )
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;break;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$fp=fopen($userfile, "w") or die( ...

Most particularly, the term "flag" is a 4-letter word as far as variable names are concerned: it simply doesn't convey any meaning. But looking even deeper, the whole approach is flawed if he's anticipating a significant number of users--not just X times through the loop, but X directory lookups, is going to kill performance at some point. This problem most likely really needs (or will soon need) a database...