Text file guestbook - change to one line only

[mystrique]

Hi all,

I'm very new and don't have much knowledge in programming.🙂

I have a simple code for flat file guestbook. (Pls don't ask me to use MySQL 😛 )

Below are the coding.

<?php
$txtFilename = "../txt/20040715.txt";
if ($komen != '')
{
$komen = str_replace("\n","<br>",$komen);
$komen = stripslashes(strip_tags($komen, '<br>'));
$nama = stripslashes(strip_tags($nama));

	$newRow = 
			'<p class="myText5">' . $komen . '<br>' .
			'<span class="myTitle2">' . $nama . date(' |j M y, g:i a|') . '</span></p>';

	$oldRows = join('', file($txtFilename));
	$fileName = fopen($txtFilename, 'w');
	fputs($fileName, $newRow . $oldRows);
	fclose($fileName);
}

$fileName = file($txtFilename);
$rows = count($fileName);
	for ($i=0; $i < $rows; $i++)
	{
		echo $fileName [$i];
	}

?>
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It generates this ouput;

<p class="myText5">hurmm.. otak sama merah, akal lain².. boleh diterima pakai x???<br><span class="myTitle2">lil-silence |12 Jul 04, 3:56 pm|</span></p><p class="myText5">thanks..merah yang sama..kerana merah telah menyedarkan sesama insan..walaupun ringkas rasanya msg berkesan..untuk mereka yang menghargai sebuah kehidupan..menghargai.harga setitis darah merah. insyaallah.
<br>bayangkan..kalau kehidupan tanpa darah tentu hidup tak seceria warna merah...
<br>seperti saudara,dulu aku juga selalu memandang rendah dan dipandang rendah..dan yang paling aku sedih jika orang memandang rendah pada tukang sapu sampah..tapi kesedaran mula wujud.aku sedar manusia tu semamangnya sama..tujuan dijadikannya sebagai "khalifah".dan yang paling penting aku sedar menusia itu saling memerlukan:-)
<br>teruskan..usaha anda menyampaikan msg melalui penulisan:-)<br><span class="myTitle2">Aya |12 Jul 04, 10:52 am|</span></p>

Questions;

1. How do I change the coding so that each entry is one line only. (In the text file shown, it actually consist of two entries but have a lot of lines). Reason is I want to know the quantity of the entries using the count() function.

2. Is there any other way to determine the quantity of the entry? I'm thinking of using the string search function but until now I can't figure it how. Would it be time consuming?

Thank you in advance, 🙂

[drawmack]

actually you're text file has no line breaks and therefor using count will only return 1. It just looks like a lot of lines due to line wrapping in your text editor.

It you want a new line after each entry then do this:

<?php
$newRow = 
'<p class="myText5">' . $komen . '<br>' . 
'<span class="myTitle2">' . $nama . date(' |j M y, g:i a|') . "</span></p>\n";
?>

[tommynanda]

I didnt quite get your post well... wat do u mean by entry... Anyways, I would suggest,

Use
$newline = $data . "\n"
fwrite(file_handle, $newline);

also use fread() than file() its more efficient in terms of memory resources than file()

TommYNandA

[mystrique]

drawmack
Thanks, I'll try it first and feedback later.

tommynanda
Thanks, Entry means one guest writes to the guestbook.