Somebody please help!!

flippyn5

I'm working on my bands site. I want to create a webpage that allows a band member to enter the show date, venue, and price in an HTML form and then the PHP writes those three fields to a TXT file. Then on the shows page of the band website, i want the PHP to list the show dates, venues, and prices from the TXT file. How do I create this?!? Somebody please help ... my e-mail is flippyn5@yahoo.com and my AIM is SomeSuckySN. Thanks!

planetsim

Take a look at these functions

[man]fopen[/man]
[man]fwrite[/man]
[man]fclose[/man]
[man]fread[/man]
[man]file[/man]

Also i doubt anyone is actually going to code this for you without some sort of payment. Also this board is a job posting site so do not reply with paying job.

flippyn5

i figured it out mostly.

I just got one thing left.

Does anybody know how to load information from a .txt into an HTML document?

jordy

urrrm have you actually looked at the links planetsim posted?

flippyn5

Let's say I used a PHP to load the txt information. How do I have my HTML document call up this PHP?

jordy

you are sure that your webserver supports PHP?

try uploading a file info.php with the following contents:

<? phpinfo(); ?>

if you open the page.. http://mywebsite.example.com/info.php can you actually see a whole lotta infomration about php?

okay then just write te script in myscript.php and link to it from your html document..

luke9_20

if you want a really simple load, just do an include

<?php
include("yourfile.txt");
?>

or you can load it into a php string:

<?php
$fd = fopen ("yourfile.txt", "r");
$content = fread ($fd, filesize ("yourfile.txt"));
fclose($fd);

echo $content;
?>

flippyn5

sorry, im new at PHP.

Luke, can I just put that code into my HTML document? Or does it have to be a new PHP, or what?

luke9_20

Depending on how your server is set up, you should use a .php file and not .html - but yes, you can just laod that into your file in the exact spot you want it to appear.. like this:

<p>something something something, here is my file:
<?php include("yourfile.txt"); ?>
Yay! File!</p>

</body>
</html>

whats your website address?

flippyn5

hmm, its not working just putting the code into the HTML...

luke9_20

thats why I said you'll need to change the extension to .php - try that, then tell me if it's working or not

flippyn5

sweet, changing the extension worked. Thank you so much!

flippyn5

sorry, another question.

My text document contains show information for a band.
Each line of the txt file has a date, venue, and price.
Is there any way , when my PHP loads the info, to have it load each line to its own line, or even to load each date, venue, and price seperately?

And if anybody could IM me on AIM at SomeSuckySN, that would be awesome

luke9_20

OK, well, here's one way you can do that - but you need to change how you write your data to your txt file. When you write it to your file, write it something like this so that each value is seperated by semi-colons and each line is seperated by a double semi-colon.

July 3rd;Allstate Arena;$6;;
March 23;Madigans Pub;$32;;
April 4;TBA;$1;;

then use this script to import your data:

<?php
$fd = fopen ("yourfile.txt", "r");
$content = fread ($fd, filesize ("yourfile.txt"));
fclose($fd);

$line = explode(";;", $content);
echo "<table cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<th>Date</th>";
echo "<th>Venue</th>";
echo "<th>Price</th>";
echo "</tr>";
foreach ($line as $lines) {
if ($lines) {
$linestr = explode(";", $lines);
$date = $linestr[0];
$venue = $linestr[1];
$price = $linestr[2];
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>$date</td>";
echo "<td>$venue</td>";
echo "<td>$price</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
}
echo "</table>";
?>