append

[ivy]

the script below simply outputs/appends form data into a text file.
the problem is that it appends more than once upon form submit.

<?

$today=date("Y-m-d");

$output = fopen("output.txt", "a");

if (!$output) {
print("Could not create file");
exit;
}

fputs($output,"$today\t");
fputs($output,"$fname\t");
fputs($output,"$lname\t");
fputs($output,"$title\t");
fputs($output,"$company\t");
fputs($output,"$address\t");
fputs($output,"$country\t");
fputs($output,"$email\t");
$chkbox ="no";
if (isset($tick)) {
$chkbox = "yes";
}
fputs($output,"$chkbox\n");

fclose($output);

Header("Location: somefile.htm");
?>

[theeper]

It appends more than once because you have 9 different fputs () commands. Concatenate all your strings into one string and do only one fputs() at the bottom.

... or are you saying that you know it does 9 fputs() but then it does 9 more and doubles the data you are appending ?

[ivy]

Thanks for the tip on concat.
I know I have several fputs, but what the script does is the whole record is updated many times in just one submit.

Example:

2002-09-20 test2 test3 test4 None asdsaasas@. yes
2002-09-20 test2 test3 test4 None asdsaasas@. yes
2002-09-20 test2 test3 test4 None asdsaasas@. yes

I noticed that on some browsers,
when Header("Location: somefile.pdf")was executed the value for all the variables shows on top of it. And while the pdf file is loading, the record also updates over again. I replaced the
Header("Location: somefile.pdf") with an htm file and its fine now but I really wanted it to be going to the pdf instead.