[Resolved] Want to write to document

[pennblaze]

Okay, this is kinda a stupid problem. But I can't find it anywhere. Every place I look its not what I'm looking for. All I want to do is have a file of links on my server under a folder. I want a little dialog box on a page that will allow me to write a link into that document on my server. And I want when my index page loads for to it access that document and write it on the screen.

It seems like it would be simple, but I'm not very good at this and every site I've looked into doesn't have anything on doing that. I'm using php to build my site and I only have a basic (very tiny) knowledge and understanding of php. Does anybody know where I can find a tutorial on how to do this? It would make life a lot simplier.

[gunhoe86]

<?php 

$handle = fopen("file.txt", "a");
/*opens the file */

fwrite($handle, "add this text");
/*writes to file*/

fclose($handle); 
/*closes file      these first three process the dialog box where you add links*/




$open = file_get_contents(file.txt);
/*gets contents of file and puts them in a string     this is what you put in your HTML code to display the text along with the following bit*/

echo nl2br ($open);
/*echoes contents of file and inserts line breaks where they are in the file*/

?>

you should create file.txt on the server before you run the script

hope this helps

~JOSH

[chriswheat]

I think this is what you are after

First create a file called linkadder.php or what ever. Put this in that file

<form method="POST" action="writer.php">
<div align="left">
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="50%">Link Name</td>
<td width="50%"><input type="text" name="linkname" size="20"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">Web address</td>
<td width="50%"><input name="link" size="20"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2"></p>
</form>

Now create a file called writer.php and put in the following code

<?PHP
$link = $POST["link"];
$linkname = $POST["linkname"];
$filename = "path_to_folder/links.php";
$vars[0] = "<a href=\"$link\">$linkname</a><br>";
$fp = fopen($filename,'a'); // 'a' will append or add to the file 'W will' write the file new
for ($x=0;$x<=1;$x++)
{
fwrite($fp,$vars[$x] . "\n");
}
fclose($fp);
?>

It is important that the folder have write permissions 766.

Now on the page you want these links use the following
<?PHP
include ("path_to_folder/file.php");
?>

That should do what you are looking for.

It would be a good Idea to add some sort of user auth to the linkadder.php so that only you or some one with a password will be able to add links.

Chris

[pennblaze]

Thank you both very much! I will give this a try. I appreciate the help.

[pennblaze]

It worked beautifully. 😃 Thanks so much!

[chriswheat]

Glad this works.

don't forget to mark the thread resolved. So other poeple know that you don't need help with this anymore.

the link to mark thread resolved is at the end of this thread.

Chris

[pennblaze]

Will do! Thanks a lot!