printing an html file ???

Atari

I 'm trying to write a form, wich after submitting, displays a page wich tells you you've won or not. I tried to write a seperated html-file and than print it. But it seems to just print the name of the html-file.

Also I would like to display some variables in the html-file(something like: sorry, $name, you haven't won anything!)

Greetz,

Tim

rIkLuNd

form.html

<html>
<head>
<title>Form</title>
</head>

<body>
<form action="form.php" method="post">

</form>
</body>
</html>

form.php

<?php

# This will generate a random filename
function random_char($string) 
{ 
$length = strlen($string); 
$position = mt_rand(0, $length - 1); 
return($string[$position]); 
} 
function random_string ($charset_string, $length) 
{ 
$return_string = random_char($charset_string); 
for ($x = 1; $x < $length; $x++) 
$return_string .= random_char($charset_string); 
return($return_string); 
}  

mt_srand((double)microtime() * 1000000); 
$charset = " abc0defghijk9lnopqrstuDwmxyz134567ABCEvF2GHIJKLMN8OPQRSTWXYZ"; 

# Let's create the html file
$filename = random_string($charset, 10);
$create = touch("$filename.html");
$open = fopen("$filename.html",'w');
$write = fwrite($open,"<html>
<head>
<title>Results</title>
</head>

<body>
Sorry, $_POST[name], you didn't win.
</body>
</html>");

header("Location: $filename.html");

?>

leatherback

Hi,

Of course there is an other option if you do not need the actual HTML file but just want to show to a person if he/she has won:

In the form you set a variable submitted to 1
<input type="hidden" value =1>

In form.php you can then check whether the form has been submitted :

If (isset(submitted))
{

// put the routines here which check for winner
//Create the output for winners/non winners

if ($winner =1 ) // the Person is a winner

{
$body .="YES You have won the price of the week";
$body .="Dear $name, thank you for playing and come back soon";

} else {

$body .="Sorry $name, you have not won this time";
} / / End of winner/no winner content

} else { //end isset submitted section, now body if the page is loaded for the first time

.body .="<form action=\"form.php\" method=\"post\">  </form> ";

?> // End of PhP, Start of HTML

<? echo $body ?>

</body>
</html>

Atari

thanx but I don't really understand what this script does but I don't think it isn't exactly what I ment.

The intention was to replace this:

print("sorry you didn't win"

with something like:

print("nowin.html")

So I can make a page(nowin.html) wich is displayed when nothing is won.
Maybe the html - file should be a php - file then, if I want to include some variables;

Or maybe I just didn't completely understand your script.

greetz,

tim

leatherback

Oh,

Well, it is basically the same thing as I wrote in the last post (Except you don't need to check wether data has been posted):

The page I put there will display a form if no data has been submitted. After submitting the data (To itself!) it will find that the variable (submitted) has been set, and that he has to process the data. You have certain criteria for a winner, and based on wether the person is a winner, specific conten is put in the variable $body, which you will print (echo) in the HTML section of the file.

Else this is aan option:

you have a form, which posts data to a file, form_process.php
The file form_process.php will load a page win.php or nowin.php, based on the input fo the form

In the file form_process:

if <your statement for not a winner>
{ // person is a winner
header ("Location: nowin.php?name=$name&email=$email"); /* Redirect browser to not a winner

} else { //person is a winner

header ("Location: win.php?name=$name&email=$email"); /* Redirect browser to a winner page
}

In the pages win.php and nowin.php you can put PhP / HTML:

<html><head></head><body>
I am sorry <? echo $name ?>,
<br>
You have not won
</body>
</html>

Of course you can have one output page, and you set a variable in form_process.php wether somebody has won, which you add to the redirect file: header ("Location: win.php?name=$name&email=$email&winner=$winner");
In te page you can then check whether the person has won or not, and display a certain type.

hope this helps!

Atari

Thanx a lot for you patience.yeah, this is really something I can use in the script a already wrote. Thanx! But I still have one question; what is the function of name=$email.. in the header function?

leatherback

Hi,

It actually sais: ?name=$name&email=$email

What it does? / Simple:

It load the page mentioned before the "?", and parses variables named "name" and "email" with values of $name and $email to that page, so you can call & use them in that page, without having to use global variables. It is called "parsing variables through url".

So when filled, the link would become something like:

nowin.php?name=leatherback&email=leatherback@somemail.nl

and in the page nowin.php you can call the variable $name and $email to use in the page. (Of course you can add any variable you want there.)

Atari

Yep! It's all working, thanx a lot!

All my information is stored in a text file and I used a code with arrays and stuff to read and write to it. First people have to fill in their specifications. When submitting it is all stored in the database. If you have won you get to see a page wich tells you you have won, and asks i the information is correct. If its correct, no problem. But if it isn't I'll have to find a way to change information that's already somewhere in the text file. Is this possible?

I attached my code files.

leatherback

Hi,

Hm,

I see you read your data from a textfile to an array, which you then split in rows, which again are split by a bar-delimiter. You could of course, of the data is wrong, search for the row with the "wrong" data, copy all data except for the wrong row to a new array, and add a new entry with the correct data at the bottom.

I have no experience with this, but I assume you'd be able to search the array, and do a sql statement, like: select * from array where <userID> in <row>
But I don't know. Check with mysql.com.
But if you have a database... Why not use that. Create a table with registered users? there you can very easily use an update command (Perhaps also on textfiles. But I don't know).

Atari

yeah I have a database but I have totally no idea how to use this. I'm familiar with some vb programming because I had this in school for one year. So I'm not an expert in programming in general. Now I'm trying to learn php and I already have got problems enough with this so I figured that it would be easier to do it without mysql. If I have to use mysql now I have to fully rewrite my code,so..
Thanx to people like you I'm making progress. Thanx a lot!!!

rIkLuNd

Well, I'm also a newbie, but I tried to use text files first, but I found it more "simple" to use a MySQL database... I think that it's easier to use!