Replacing "Enter" with in textfile

mooler

Got a guestbook that saves the writers data in a textfiles and then loads that data into a textfield ( flash ).

How do I get the PHP code to translate the "Enter" to so my textfile saves it as that. Then the textfield in my flash textfield understands when to break into a new line?

I´m attaching the code incase that helps sense I´m a newbie please be as specific as you can where to insert the code ;-)

<?php
// If you are using an old version of php, remove the next set of lines.
// or use $HTTP_POST_VARS["..."] instead.
$Submit 	= $_POST["Submit"];
$Name 		= $_POST["Name"];
$Email 		= $_POST["Email"];
$Website 	= $_POST["Website"];
$Comments 	= $_POST["Comments"];
$NumLow 	= $_REQUEST["NumLow"];
$NumHigh 	= $_REQUEST["NumHigh"];

// Replace special characters - you can remove the next 5 lines if wanted.
$Name 		= ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9äÄåÅöÖ ]", "", $Name);
$Comments	= ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9äÄåÅöÖ \@\.\-\/\']", "", $Comments);

// Remove slashes.
$Rubrik		= stripslashes($Rubrik);
$Name 		= stripslashes($Name);
$Comments 	= stripslashes($Comments);

// ###################################################################################
// ########## Reading and Writing the new data to the GuestBook Database #############

if ($Submit == "Yes") {
// Next line tells the script which Text file to open.
	$filename 	= "GuestBook.txt";

// Opens up the file declared above for reading 

$fp 		= fopen( $filename,"r"); 
$OldData 	= fread($fp, 80000); 
fclose( $fp ); 

// Gets the current Date of when the entry was submitted
	$Today 		= (date ("l dS of F Y ( h:i:s A )",time()));

// Puts the recently added data into html format that can be read into the Flash Movie.
// You can change this up and add additional html formating to this area.  For a complete listing of all html tags
// you can use in flash - visit: [url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/htmltext.htm[/url]

$Input = "Name: <b>$Name</b><br>Email: <b><u><a href=\"mailto:$Email\">$Email</a></u></b><br>Website: <b><u><a href=\"http://$Website\" target=\"_blank\">$Website</a></u></b><br>Comments: <b>$Comments</b><br><i><font size=\"-1\">Date: $Today</font><br><br>.:::.";

/* This Line adds the '&GuestBook=' part to the front of the data that is stored in the text file.  This is important because without this the Flash movie would not be able to assign the variable 'GuestBook' to the value that is located in this text file  */

$New = "$Input$OldData";

// Opens and writes the file.

$fp = fopen( $filename,"w"); 
if(!$fp) die("&GuestBook=cannot write $filename ......&");
fwrite($fp, $New, 800000); 
fclose( $fp ); 
}
?>

THX

barand

use [man]nl2br[/man]

mooler

Look likes something I could use but how?

I fail to see how I should implement the code? How do I get the code to understand that the data the variables contain should replace the Enter with .

Hope your a patient one :-)

dalecosp

replace this line

$Comments     = $_POST["Comments"];

with this

$Comments     = nl2br($_POST["Comments"]);

That's it on a platter! 😉

mooler

Thx for the help but that only saves the text as this

Enterbr /Enterbr /Enter

So the isn´t complete and cant be interpereted into new line.

Man this is getting tricky :-)

mooler

Solved it but not quite sure why it works this way? If anybody nows please write me a line!

The working code

<?php
// If you are using an old version of php, remove the next set of lines.
// or use $HTTP_POST_VARS["..."] instead.


$Submit 	= $_POST["Submit"];
$Rubrik		= $_POST["Rubrik"];
$Name 		= $_POST["Name"];
$Comments 	= $_POST["Comments"];
$NumLow 	= $_REQUEST["NumLow"];
$NumHigh 	= $_REQUEST["NumHigh"];
$Today 		= (date ("l dS of F Y ( h:i:s A )",time()));
$Input = "<b>{$Rubrik}</b><br> {$Comments}<br><i>Posted by: {$Name}<br><font size=\"-1\">Date: {$Today}</font><br><br>.:::."; 


// Replace special characters - you can remove the next 5 lines if wanted.

$Rubrik		= ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9äÄåÅöÖ ]", "", $Rubrik);
$Name 		= ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9äÄåÅöÖ ]", "", $Name);
$Comments	= ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9äÄåÅöÖ \@\.\-\/\']", "", $Comments);



// Remove slashes.
$Rubrik		= stripslashes($Rubrik);
$Name 		= stripslashes($Name);
$Comments 	= stripslashes($Comments);

// ###################################################################################
// ########## Reading and Writing the new data to the GuestBook Database #############

if ($Submit == "Yes") {
// Next line tells the script which Text file to open.
	$filename 	= "nyheterinput.txt";

// Opens up the file declared above for reading 

$fp 		= fopen( $filename,"r"); 
$OldData 	= fread($fp, 80000); 
fclose( $fp ); 


/* This Line adds the '&GuestBook=' part to the front of the data that is stored in the text file.  This is important because without this the Flash movie would not be able to assign the variable 'GuestBook' to the value that is located in this text file  */

$New = "$Input$OldData";

// Opens and writes the file.

$fp = fopen( $filename,"w"); 
if(!$fp) die("&GuestBook=cannot write $filename ......&");
fwrite($fp, $New, 800000); 
fclose( $fp ); 
}

// ###################################################################################
// ######### Formatting and Printing the Data from the Guestbook to the Flash Movie ##



// Next line tells the script which Text file to open.
	$filename = "nyheterinput.txt";

// Opens up the file declared above for reading 

$fp 	= fopen( $filename,"r"); 
$Data 	= fread($fp, 800000); 
fclose( $fp );

// Splits the Old data into an array anytime it finds the pattern .:::.
	$DataArray = split (".:::.", $Data);

// Counts the Number of entries in the GuestBook
	$NumEntries = count($DataArray) - 1;

print "&TotalEntries=$NumEntries&NumLow=$NumLow&NumHigh=$NumHigh&GuestBook=";
for ($n = $NumLow; $n < $NumHigh; $n++) {
print $DataArray[$n];
	if (!$DataArray[$n]) {
		Print "<br><br><b>No More entries</b>";
	exit;
	}
}
?>

dalecosp

Originally posted by mooler
Thx for the help but that only saves the text as this

Enterbr /Enterbr /Enter

So the isn´t complete and cant be interpereted into new line.

Man this is getting tricky :-)

No, but I didn't think so clearly, myself. nl2br() is used during a text-to-HTML conversion, so it shouldn't be called until the ouput phase, which looks like the last code block in the most recent code you posted...

spstieng

You have probably solved it by now, but better late than never.

Here's what I do for my file.


     $filename = "data/news.txt"; 
     $fd = fopen ($filename, "r");
$buffer = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename));
fclose ($fd);

$content = str_replace("\n", "<br>", $buffer);

Then u just save the file.