writing/reading file

[bakaal]

How can i have say 3 things of info taken from form like name address and phone number, be written to a file, but then again reading that file and taking the names and numbers being put back on original page? i dont know how to make it so that it puts it into the file in one line, and then gets read and put back in one line again.

[batman]

Try something like this:

<?php

$name = $_POST['name'];
$address = $_POST['address'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$filename = 'path/to/file.txt';
$somecontent = "$name, $address, $phone\n";

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

if (!$handle = fopen($filename, 'a')) {
     print "Cannot open file ($filename)";
     exit;
}

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

print "Success, wrote ($somecontent) to file ($filename)";

fclose($handle);

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

Then to read the file use this:

$filename = "path/to/file.txt";
function file_get_contents($filename) {
   $fd = fopen("$filename", "rb");
   $content = fread($fd, filesize($filename));
  fclose($fd);
   return $content;
}

Or I also believe that frontpage can do that pretty easy. If you have it, then you can do exactly what you are wanting without coding anything.

Hope that helps,
-Blake

[bakaal]

thanks, i'll start working on it. any other programs that could do something like this??