Making files and entering data

Lyise

I want to make a script so that people can enter values into text boxes, then when they click "submit" on the form, it will create a file, and store the values inside this files. I'm storing the data in files like this:

<?php

$reviewname = "Example";
$reviewdate = "28/06/2003";
$reviewtext = "Example of review.";
$reviewgrade = 1;
$reviewauthor = 1;

?>

How would I go about creating the new files, and entering this data?

sleepingdanny

To create a file you need to use touch("filename.txt").

To write to a file you use fputs("content",$fp) - It adds the new content bellow the old content in the file OR you can use fwrite("content",$fp) - Deletes the old content and writes the new content.

barand

Do you just want to store the data in plain text files or database tables?

If text, do you want one item per line as in

Example
28/06/2003
Example of review
1

1

or do you want ini file format as in

reviewname=Example
reviewdate=28/06/2003
reviewtext=Example of review
reviewgrade=1

reviewauthor=1

or delimited text format?

Example|28/06/2003|Example of review|1|1

All these would use [man]fopen[/man], [man]fputs[/man].

hth

Lyise

Originally posted by sleepingdanny
To create a file you need to use touch("filename.txt").

To write to a file you use fputs("content",$fp) - It adds the new content bellow the old content in the file OR you can use fwrite("content",$fp) - Deletes the old content and writes the new content.

Thanks, this is exactly what I needed, but what's $fp? is it the file path?

laserlight

Actually, it is
fputs($fp, "content");

$fp would be the file pointer to an opened file, usually opened with fopen()

touch() simply creates the file, or updates the file access times for an existing file.

Lyise

Originally posted by laserlight
Actually, it is
fputs($fp, "content");

$fp would be the file pointer to an opened file, usually opened with fopen()

touch() simply creates the file, or updates the file access times for an existing file.

Ooh, thank you for that, how does fopen() work? it it just fopen(filename) or do you need to put anything else in it?

laserlight

read the PHP manual, it will help explain.

Lyise

Okay, I've almost got this working now, except for one minor problem... I want to save "$reviewname" into the new file, not the value of it, but the name of it, but when I tried putting its name in quotations, it still put the value of it, could anyone help me with this?

barand

Use single quotes

Lyise

Thank you very very much, that worked perfectly! I just have one 3 more questions...

How do I change returns to <br>?
How do I go through a string and replace text with other text, like replacing < with the version that doesn't effect HTML?
How will this work if a ' in inputted into the string?