help with this little system i am trying to make

theqase

ok i am trying to make a status bar for a school using a php script to customize the bar...

i need this php program to make a file like this (http://test.teamsquirrels.com/wxinfo.html)

here is the form... i have it mostly working except for a few things - details are included on this page (http://test.teamsquirrels.com/form2.html)

and following will be my coding:

<?php
$fp = fopen("wxinfo.txt",'w');

extract($_POST,EXTR_OVERWRITE);
$other = stripslashes(nl2br($other));
$fw = fwrite($fp,"$alert\n$description\n$alerto\n$descriptiont\n$descriptiono\n$month/$date/$year");
fclose($fp);
?>

that is what the form posts to..

and

<?
$data = file('wxinfo.txt');
$alert = $data[0];
$description = $data[1];
$other = $data[4];
if ($description == 'Other') 
{
$description = $other;
}
$date= $data[5];
?>

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<?print $alert;?>: School Name Local School - <?print $description;?> - <?print $date;?>
</body>
</html>

that is what my result file is...

you can see the form coding by looking at the source... because i dont want to make this thread too confusing and long

so can you help me figure this out to work like i have written on http://test.teamsquirrels.com/form2.html

and all of the other files are visible if you need to see them at http://test.teamsquirrels.com/

cgraz

If the user selects other, and you want it to display what they typed in the text box, you could use an if statement. For example:


if ($alert == 'other') {
   echo $otherrs;
} else {
   echo $other;
}

I don't understand what you want to do with the date. If you want the current date, wouldn't that be the date the form is submitted? Or did you mean you didn't want the date field to be displayed if they select open? Or do you want to display the date they type in the date field if they select open.

To get the current date:


if ($description == 'Open') {
   // Echo current date
   $today = getdate(); 
   $month = $today['month']; $mday = $today['mday']; 
   $year = $today['year']; 
   echo "$month $mday, $year";
} else {
   echo $description;
}

To get the date they type in in your date field. . .



if ($description == 'Open') {
  echo $month . " " . $date . ", " . $year . "";
} else {
   echo $description;
}

But you set your values to MM DD YY, which will echo

MM DD YY rather then December 6, 2002 or whatever date they enter. I'd get rid of the value field from your form.

Also, watch your caps. For your field names on the form, you used Open (with a capital O) but you used other (with a lowercase o).

Hope this helps.

Cgraz