adding text to the bottom of a field

Anon

i am making a bbs system. and when the user edits a post i want to add the usual

[edited by username at date]

how can i add that after they submit the edit?

Anon

I don't think you posted enough information about your problem here.

Is the data being stored in a database or in some other format (like flatfiles)?

Do you ask the user to put their username into a field when they post?

You can always get the date by using the PHP date() function. Try this:

$postDate = date('Y-m-d');

If you have the username as a posted variable (say $user) then just tack this string to the data record:

"[edited by $userName at $postDate]";

Anon

ok.. see this is how it is..

the user posts a message which sends it to a mysql field..

if they want to edit it they can .. they click the edit button and it shows their post . and they can edit it how ever they want..

if they edit the post i want to add this to the bottom of their post.

"[edited by user at date]"

i know how to get the username and date and stuff, but i want to put that text in after they submit it.

like in the ubb system.

Anon

ok i figured it out..

made a hidden text field called "edit" with a value of the text i wanted and when it submitted i did a

$message = $message . $edit;

kparker

That's subject to hacking. But since you've found out how to generate the stuff you're putting in the hidden field, just do it while processing the POSTed data instead of when generating the form.