[Resolved] Help Writing to File

[lobster]

Upon submitting of form I need to write to a file tab or comma separated for future database use. I have the following code but it chokes when I try to string the posted variables together...calling a T_Variable foul and I cannot figure out the problem.

    if ($errmsg==""){

	// write file to server
	$completew = $width . $width_frac;
	$completeh = $height . $height_frac; 

	$data = $name ."\t". $email ."\t". $dphone ."\t". $divider ."\t". $sides ."\t". $tempvar ."\t". $location ."\t". $mount ."\t". $finish ."\t". $hinge ."\t"; 
	$data .= $address ."\t". $opt_address ."\t". $city ."\t". $state ."\t". $prod_type ."\t". $qty ."\t". $room ."\t". $completew ."\t". $completeh ."\t";
	$data .= $louver ."\t".	$foldtype ."\t". $foldcode ."\t". $frame;

	$cwd = getcwd();
	$filename = "qetquote.txt";
	$url = $cwd . "/" .$filename;

	$handle = @fopen("$url","a");

		if(!$handle){
		print("Can't open the file");
		die;

		  fwrite($handle,$data); 
	         fclose($handle);
		 }

	}

[thorpe]

you are missing the closing ; from both lines where you are assigning data to your $data variable.

[thorpe]

what happened here? seems your missing ; are now fixed. can you see the __ in various places in your code? where is that comming from?

[lobster]

I think it is a copy paste issue. It does not show in the code.

[lobster]

OK I have been working with this ove and over and keep getting T_VARIABLE errors etc. Here is the whole page of code without the hml parts. Its occuring towards the top.

<?
// initialize all the variables
$name = $_POST("name");
$email = $_POST("email");
$dphone = $_POST("dphone");
$address = $_POST("address");
$opt_address = $_POST("opt_address");
$city = $_POST("city");
$state = $_POST("state");
$zip = $_POST("zip");

$prod_type = $_POST("prod_type");
$room = $_POST("room");
$qty = $_POST("qty");
$louver = $_POST("louver");
$width = $_POST("width");
$height = $_POST("height");
$width_frac = $_POST("width_frac");
$height_frac = $_POST("height_frac");
$foldtype = $_POST("foldtype");

$panels = $_POST("panels");
$frame = $_POST("frame");
$divider = $_POST("divider");
$sides = $_POST("sides");
$location = $_POST("location");
$mount = $_POST("mount");
$finish = $_POST("finish");
$hinge = $_POST("hinge");

$submit = $_POST("submit");


// check if the form was posted
if ($submit != "") {
    $errmsg = "";
    // validate the fields
    if (empty($name)) $errmsg.=" Name - First and Last";
    if (empty($email)) $errmsg.=" Email";
	if (empty($zip)) $errmsg.=" ZipCode";

// empty $errmsg means validation passed

if ($errmsg == " "){

	// write file to server
	$completew = "$width" . "$width_frac";
	$completeh = "$height" ."$height_frac"; 

	$data = $name ."\t". $email ."\t". $dphone ."\t". $divider ."\t". $sides ."\t". $tempvar ."\t". $location ."\t". $mount ."\t". $finish ."\t". $hinge ."\t"; 
	$data .= $address ."\t". $opt_address ."\t". $city ."\t". $state ."\t". $prod_type ."\t". $qty ."\t". $room ."\t". $completew ."\t". $completeh ."\t";
	$data .= $louver ."\t".	$foldtype ."\t". $foldcode ."\t". $frame;

	$filename = "qetquote.txt";
	$getfile = file_get_contents($filename) or die("what file?");

	$fp = fopen("$filename","w") or die("Cannot open file.");	
	fwrite($fp,"$data") or die("Cannot write to the file");
	fclose($fp);

	// email the results to yourself.
    $msg = "Name:\t $name\n";
    $msg .= "Email:\t $email\n";
	if($dphone != "") { $msg .= "Day Phone:\t $dphone\n"; }
	if($address != "") { $msg .= "\nAddress:\n$address\n"; }
	if($opt_address != "") { $msg .= "$opt_address\n"; }
    if($city != "") { $msg .= "$city,"; }
	if($state != "") { $msg .= "$state"; }
	$msg .= " $zip\n\n";	
	$msg .= "Product Type:\t $prod_type\n";
	$msg .= "Quantity:\t $qty\n";
	$msg .= "Room:\t $room\n";
	$msg .= "Width:\t $completew\n";
	$msg .= "Height:\t $\n";
	$msg .= "Louver Size:\t $louver\n";
	  $panelx = ceil(($width / 20) + .5);
	$msg .= "Qty of Panels:\t $panelx\n";
	  if($panels > "1") { $foldx = ($panelx / 2); }
	  if($panels > "1") { $foldcode = "$foldx-$foldx"; } else { $foldcode = "1-0"; }
	$msg .= "Fold Code:\t $foldtype $foldcode\n\n";
	$msg .= "Frame Type:\t $frame\n";
	$msg .= "Divider Rail:\t $divider\n";
	$msg .= "Sides:\t $sides\n";
	$msg .= "Location:\t $location\n";
	$msg .= "Mount:\t $mount\n";
	if($mount == "inside") { $msg .= "all 4 recommended"; }
	$msg .= "Finish Color:\t $finish\n";
	$msg .= "Hinge Color:\t $hinge\n";

    $recipient = "[e-mail]";
    $subject = "$name Shutter Spec Sheet";

    $mailheaders = "From: $email\n";
    $mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $email\n\n";

    mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders); 
}
}	

// check to see if the form needs to be displayed
if ($submit=="" || $errmsg!=""){
    //write the form
?>

  <?
     // form submitted but no error message 
} else {
  ?>

blah blah
<? } ?>

Cant get it...please help.

[Huuggee]

Originally posted by lobster
[

<?
// initialize all the variables
$name = $_POST("name");
$email = $_POST("email");
$dphone = $_POST("dphone");

array syntax is wrong
you should have $_POST['var'];

[lobster]

yeah I fixed that already...the problem lies somewhere in here:

I actually get it to write to the file if I am not relying on pasing actual data to it. But this is giving me problems:

$data="$name, $email, $dphone, $divider, $sides, $location, $mount, $finish, $hinge, $address, $opt_address, $city, $state, $prod_type, $qty, $room, $completew, $completeh, $louver, $foldtype, $foldcode, $frame";

I have tried formatting it like above as well as $var1 .",". $var2 etc but it blows up. It works fine without this string when I just writ eto the file a simple word but passing it this $data var it wont work.

[Huuggee]

// check if the form was posted
if ($submit != "") {
    $errmsg = "";
    // validate the fields
    if (empty($name)) $errmsg.=" Name - First and Last";
    if (empty($email)) $errmsg.=" Email";
    if (empty($zip)) $errmsg.=" ZipCode";

// empty $errmsg means validation passed

if ($errmsg == " "){

does this code ever execute?
after the form is validated, you already set $errmsg to be an empty string. Then you check to see if it isn't empty?

[lobster]

I have that working in several forms .. i have since changed that in this instance and have moved the file writing and emailing to the bottom aftr the else ...in other word if submit and no errors...which is how I got the fwrite to work.

	$output = "$name";

	$filename = "$name" . "_quote.txt";
	@ $fp = fopen("$filename","w") or die("Cannot open file.");	
	@ fwrite($fp,"$output") or die("Cannot write to the file");
	fclose($fp);

I am now working with this...if I comment out the $output line and type in howdy in the fwrite function...a new file of jdoe_quote.txt is generated and contains the word howdy..

but if I try to pass that name through another variable to be written to the file (like above) . it barfs. I have tried every way and dont know why it chokes at this point.

[Huuggee]

le (like above) . it barfs. I have tr

nice terminollogy

try taking the var name in fwrite out of the quotes.

you may as well just say

 fwrite($fp, $output)

[lobster]

well.. that does create the file with the correct name but the name does not get written into the file.

[Huuggee]

try this,

$output = $name;

    $filename = $name . _quote.txt;
    @ $fp = fopen($filename,"w") or die("Cannot open file.");    
    @ fwrite($fp,$output) or die("Cannot write to the file");
    fclose($fp);

do you get any error at all?

[lobster]

unexpected T_VARIABLE on the line

$output = $name;

[Huuggee]

what's the whole script code now, as you get that error?

[lobster]

Attached is the file in its entirety.

Thanks so much for your assistance.

[Huuggee]

doh!

i missed some quotes on quote.txt

$filename = $name . '_quote.txt'; 

i think that's giving the error

[lobster]

Nope...still not working (getting same error). I dont know what the issue is.

[lobster]

Ok I have separated the form processor from the form itself to narrow down the issue. This throws...

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /hsphere/local/home/lshostin/smartaleck.com/test2.php on line 21

which is the line of fwrite

<?

// process the form

$errmsg="";
    // validate the fields
    if ($name=="") $errmsg.=" Name (First and Last)";
    if ($email=="") $errmsg.=" Email";
	if ($zip=="") $errmsg.=" ZipCode";

if(!empty($errmsg)) { 

	header("location:test.php");

} else {

// write to file
$file = $email . "_quote.txt";
$output = $name . "," . $email;
$fp = fopen($file,"w") or die("not opening!");
   fwrite($fp,$output) or die("not writing!");
  fclose($fp);


// talk to the user

echo "Thank you for contacting us.";


?>

any ideas?

[Huuggee]

i can't see anything wrong with the code, so my only guess here now, is file permissions and you may not have them to writ to the file.

although you did say before that you've managed to create the file with a hardcoded file name.

might just be worth checking them again

[tsinka]

Hi,

please post the file as attachment. There's a closing curly brace missing in the code you posted which should cause an " unexpected $end" error.

Thomas