Using PHP to add HTML...

ofSHIZ

Here is my situation..
I have a website and I want to make it so when a person logs into my website, they can post messages into the news frame..

So they would come to my website.. log in.. and see a page that says
Message Title(textarea)
Message Author(textarea)
Message(textboxthingy)
Submit!(Button)

When they would hit submit, it would take all of the information, and insert it to the very top of the news frame..
I've seen other people have this feature and I thought it would be good.
I have to login code and everything..
Thanks for your help!
My Site, Just incase u wanna look

cgraz

insert it into a database then when you pull it out, order by id DESC and display it. I'm assuming you know how to INSERT data into a database and how to use SELECT to pull it out then display w/php? If not post back and I'll give you some more help.

Cgraz

ofSHIZ

i don't got a database service.. mysql is weird on my computer..
is there anyway to just transfer all the information to the the file?
and i don't know how to install postgresql...
mircrosoft's is very expensive..

cgraz

sure, what you would want to do is create a text file on your server (with writeable permissions). Create a form with the fields you want. When they fill out that form, you open the file for writing (use 'w' for your mode if you want newest comments uptop. see fopen()), write to it, then close it.

You'll need

fopen()
fwrite()
fclose()

Then when you want to display the comments, just open up the textfile and display it. When you fopen() this time, use 'r' as your mode. Open the file, display it on your page, then use fclose()

Check out the links above. There are a ton of user-submitted code/comments for this.

Cgraz

ofSHIZ

dude your awesome.. i totally understand.. but.. what letter would i use for fwrite and fclose.. or don't they need one?

ofSHIZ

Ok.. I have the code to write it and everything.. when i proccess the codde it gives me a Success.. but when I go and chcek the news.txt file.. nothings there!!

Wha??

<?php
$fopn = fopen ("news.txt", "w");
$fwrt = fwrite ($fopn, $topic, $message);
$fcls = fclose ($fopn);

{

echo "Success!";

}

?>

cgraz

i just thought of something I should have said earlier (cause I've done this in the past). When you write to the file, format all your html. meaning convert \n to <br>, if you want the title to be bold, make it bold when you write it. Etc. Then, just

include("news.txt");

As for the writing, what is $topic and $message? You want to combine everything you want to put in the textfile into one variable.

soemthing like:
$to_write = $topic . $message;

fwrite ($fopn, $to_write);

Cgraz