making a tagboard

[MeinHerzBrennt]

ok, i got my forms to submit to a page using a html page with the forms, and then an action.php using the variables ive setup, how can i get it to keep the things it sends, to make a tag board. preferable without a DB, using a txt file or something..

[planetsim]

tagboard being a shoutbox or forum... ive seen people call it both.. but what do you mean

[MeinHerzBrennt]

tag board not a forum

[MeinHerzBrennt]

http://www.meinherzbrennt.com/php/test.php

thats my basic design for it, it doesnt save any values though

[planetsim]

Umm im not any good with Text Databases.. Look Up fread and fwrite.. as well as fopen in the manual

[planetsim]

Umm im not any good with Text Databases.. Look Up fread and fwrite.. as well as fopen in the manual

[MeinHerzBrennt]

im kinda a begginner so if anyone can elaborate on it

[MeinHerzBrennt]

btw i have a test.php which has the forms and the iframe(board.php) and this gets the info and stores it in the variables, then i got action.php which outputs the data...... thanks

[MeinHerzBrennt]

so u guys can help a newbie, heres the data in the files:

test.php:

	<form action="action.php" method="POST" target="board">
		<div align="center">
			<iframe src="board.php" name="board" width="150" height="200" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe>
			<br>
			<input type="text" name="name" value="Your Name"><br>
			<input type="text" name="mail" value="Your E-Mail"><br>
			<input type="text" name="message" value="Message"><br>
			<input type="submit" value="Shout&nbsp;Out!"></div>
	</form>

action.php:

<a href="mailto:<?php echo $_POST["mail"]; ?>"><?php echo $_POST["name"]; ?></a>: <?php echo $_POST["message"]; ?>

board.php:
its empty 🙁

[planetsim]

like i said before read the manual.. and go and check out tuts with text databases at spoono. or even search it on the web at google...

fwrite - http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php
fread - http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php
fclose - http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fclose.php
fopen - http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

i dont think anything is gonna help you there but to remember that you must chmod your text file 777 if you upload it onto a non-windows server

[MeinHerzBrennt]

YES! i got it to write to a txt file, but for some reason its not showing the variables the right way

[MeinHerzBrennt]

heres my action.php now

<?php
$filename = 'messages.txt';
$somecontent = '<a href="mailto:echo $_POST["mail"];">echo $_POST["name"];</a >: php echo $_POST["message"];\n';

// Let's make sure the file exists and is writable first.
if (is_writable($filename)) {

// In our example we're opening $filename in append mode.
// The file pointer is at the bottom of the file hence 
// that's where $somecontent will go when we fwrite() it.
if (!$fp = fopen($filename, 'a')) {
     print "Cannot open file ($filename)";
     exit;
}

// Write $somecontent to our opened file.
if (!fwrite($fp, $somecontent)) {
    print "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
    exit;
}

print "Thanks for the submission!";

fclose($fp);

} else {
    print "The file $filename is not writable";
}
?>

i dont think its detecting the variables, or im displaying them wrong.

[MeinHerzBrennt]

anyone?!?!?

[MeinHerzBrennt]

i think the problem is my message.txt didnt have

<?php ?> in it, i added it but it keeps adding the messages below this, how can i make add it in between?

[planetsim]

Now this may not help you.. But if your text file.. is not chmodded then it wont work.. Now im not exactly sure what do with it maybe... try /n as a new line.. But as i said before text databases and the fread etc functions im not great at

[MeinHerzBrennt]

i got it to work, i just need it to fwrite to the TOP of the text file... which i dunno how to

[daveyboy]

open the file, [man]rewind/man. The pointer is then at the start of the file and fwrite() will write to the top of the file.