Updating a snow report twice a day

Royce

I have to update a snowreport twice a day or more everyday. Right now I'm just changing the html through dreamweaver and uploading it. I would like to have some sort of template system like this...

New snow: $newsnow
Coverage: $coverage
Lifts: $lifts
Base Depth: $basedepth

I would have a form that looked like this:
New snow:_____
Coverage:__
Lifts:__
Base Depth:_____
[submit]

...and when I hit submit it replaces the variables ($newsnow, $lifts, etc.) with the info from the form and generates the snow report page or the snow report page is generated on the fly or whatever. Thanks!

Chris_78

Here's your main page with your form.. form.htm

<html>

<form action="weather.php" method="post">
New Snow: <input type="text" name="new_snow"><br>
Coverage: <input type="text" name="coverage"><br>
Lifts: <input type="text" name="lifts"><br>
Base Depth: <input type="text" name="base_depth"><br>
<input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Submit">
<input name="reset" type="reset" value="Clear Form">
</form>

</html>

This code below is a seperate page from the one above.. it's the weather.php page that you see in the form code above. Just make sure it's in the same dir as form.htm (or whatever you call it)..


<?php

if (!$new_snow || !$coverage || !$lifts || !$base_depth) {
echo "Please go back and complete the form.";
}
else {

echo "New Snow: " $new_snow"\n";
echo "Coverage: " $coverage"\n";
echo "Lifts: " $lifts"\n";
echo "Base Depth: " $base_depth"\n";
}

?>

Hope that helps..sorry about any typos..the code should work though.

intenz

Do not follow Chris_78's post, because his snippet isn't super globals friendly.

Try instead...

The form

<form action="" method="post">
New snow:<br>
<input type="text" name="new_snow"><br>
Coverage:<br>
<input type="text" name="coverage"><br>
Lifts:<br>
<input type="text" name="lifts"><br>
Base depth:<br>
<input type="text" name="base_depth">
<br><br>
<input type="text" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

The code (put below the form if you don't know how to use)

<?
extract($_POST);
if($submit)
{
	if($new_snow && $coverage && $lifts && $base_depth)
	{
		echo 'New Snow: ' . $new_snow . "<br>\n";
		echo 'Coverage: ' . $coverage . "<br>\n";
		echo 'Lifts: ' . $lifts . "<br>\n";
		echo 'Base Depth: ' . $base_depth . "<br>\n";
	}
	else
		die('Please go back and complete the form.');
}
?>

Chris_78

intenz is right... his is a better way to go..

I'm fairly new to this myself. 🙂

Royce

What file does it generate? I don't see anywhere where it generates a new file? Thanks guys!!!

I should have 3 pages. The form page, the template page, and the snow report page (with updated info). Does that make sense?

Royce

OK, here's what I'm thinking I'll do. I need something that will take my input and write it to a text file like this:

5 inches
good
34
4

It would write each variable to a different line in a text file. I would then call the info by

$myfile = file('/path/to/file.txt');

New Snow: <? echo $myfile[0]; ?>
Coverage: <? echo $myfile[1]; ?>
Trails: <? echo $myfile[2]; ?>
Bla Bla: <? echo $myfile[3]; ?>

Which of course would look like
New Snow: 5 inches
Coverage: Good
Trails: 34
Bla Bla: 4

So can someone show me how to make a form that will write to a text file with one variable per line? The info has to get overwritten each time as well. Thanks for any help. If anyone has a better way to update a huge snowreport a few times a day, let me know. This is what I have to update http://mthigh.com/pages/snowreport.shtml

Thanks again.