Flat file Date Backup

[chugger93]

I need the small bit of code to backup some data. I have like 10 text areas that I want backed up to a flat file based on date.

So basically I will have a button in my script that will say "backup data"

and all my textarea's will be backed up according to todays date, when the button is pressed.

for example, 07_13_04-backup.html

And it will be written to a certain dir on my webhost for all to see the archive.

Any idea on how to do this?

[TheDefender]

fwrite() and fopen()

I don't have time to script it for you, but if you load the textareas into an array, you can loop through each array value, adding a new line to a text file... The example they give in the documentation does it with just one line of text, but it can be easily modded to loop through an array...

[chugger93]

Hmmm, so would I take for instance my variables for textareas (i.e $sent1, sent2, sent3 etc ) and declare them like $sent1 = [1]
$sent2 = [2]

I don't know PHP all that well, if anyone else has time to help, let me know. It's always much appreciated :o

[TheDefender]

Not sure how you are defining your textareas, but here is the basic jist on how you'd go about adding them all...

$textarea[1] = "Hello ";
$textarea[2] = "World!  ";
$textarea[3] = "You ";
$textarea[4] = "are ";
$textarea[5] = "a ";
$textarea[6] = "big ";
$textarea[7] = "place...";

$counttextareas = count($textarea);
$array = array();
FOR($i = 1; $i <= $counttextareas; $i++) {
  array_push($array, $textarea[$i]);
}
print_r($array);

// Outputs:
// Array ( [0] => Hello [1] => World! [2] => You [3] => are [4] => a [5] => big [6] => place... ) 

[chugger93]

Well heres my script, you can check it out when u have time. Everything is pretty much in either admin.php or scroller.php

admin.php is prob what you'd want

Im not sure I understand your code and why you outputted Array ( blah blah. ) Shouldnt it just be the text "Hello, World, etc etc" ?

[chugger93]

Ok, I've tried to start to code it, but Im having problems:

I also need to add some kind of date function or something, so it saves the file name according to todays date!

<?

include("admin.php");


$textarea[1] = "$sent1"; 
$textarea[2] = "$sent2"; 
$textarea[3] = "$sent3"; 
$textarea[4] = "$sent4"; 
$textarea[5] = "$sent5"; 
$textarea[6] = "$sent6"; 
$textarea[7] = "$sent7"; 

$counttextareas = count($textarea); 
$array = array(); 
FOR($i = 1; $i <= $counttextareas; $i++) { 
  array_push($array, $textarea[$i]); 
} 



$filename = 'test1.html';
$somecontent =  $textarea[$i];

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

   // In our example we're opening $filename in append mode.
   // The file pointer is at the bottom of the file hence 
   // that's where $somecontent will go when we fwrite() it.
   if (!$handle = fopen($filename, 'a')) {
         echo "Cannot open file ($filename)";
         exit;
   }

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

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

   fclose($handle);

} else {
   echo "The file $filename is not writable";
}



?>

[chugger93]

OK i figured it out, I was missing an include statement

now i have this

<?

include("conf.php");

$textarea[1] = "$sent1"; 
$textarea[2] = "$sent2"; 
$textarea[3] = "$sent3"; 
$textarea[4] = "$sent4"; 
$textarea[5] = "$sent5"; 
$textarea[6] = "$sent6"; 
$textarea[7] = "$sent7";


$counttextareas = count($textarea); 
$array = array(); 

FOR($i = 1; $i <= $counttextareas; $i++) { 
  array_push($array, $textarea[$i]); 




$filename = 'test1.html';
$somecontent =  $textarea[$i];

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

   // In our example we're opening $filename in append mode.
   // The file pointer is at the bottom of the file hence 
   // that's where $somecontent will go when we fwrite() it.
   if (!$handle = fopen($filename, 'a')) {
         echo "Cannot open file ($filename)";
         exit;
   }

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

   echo "Success, wrote ($somecontent) to file ($filename)<br><br>";

   fclose($handle);

} else {
   echo "The file $filename is not writable";
}
  }

?>

I need to figure out how to write the contents in that test1.html file to have carriage retuns. Right now when u open test1.html, all the values are on one line.

I also still need to know how to write the file to todays date

Thankyou 😃