Writing to a Text File

raustin

How would I add formatting to the following code? I want to create a 'Title' field so that the story will be led by a bigger, bold title.

<?
  if (isset($submit) && isset($file)) {
    $file = trim($file);
    if ($file != "") {
      $filename = "news1.txt";
      $handle= fopen($filename,'w');
      $file = stripslashes($file);
      fputs($handle, $file);
      fclose($handle);
      $err = 0;
    } else {
      $err = 1;
    }
  }
?>
<html>
<head>


    <link href="../css2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<hr />
<?php include('nav.php'); ?>
<hr />
<div align="center"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
  <?
if ($err == 0) {
  echo "page updated";
} elseif ($err == 1 ) {
  echo "unable to update page";
}
?>
  <p><br>
  </p>
  <form name="update" action="<?=$PHP_SELF?>" method="post">
  <h1><strong>News 1</strong><br>    

    <textarea name="file" cols="100" rows="10" id="file">
<?
$fcontents = file ("news1.txt");
while (list ($line_num, $line) = each ($fcontents)) {
  echo htmlspecialchars ($line);
}
?>
    </textarea>
    <br>
      <input type="submit" name="submit" value="update">
  </h1>
  </form>
</div>
</body>
</html>

dalecosp

Well, if it's a guaranteed thing that the title is the first line, then stick a counter in the while loop, and if it's ==0, then echo an "<hn>" and an "</hn>" in the right spots...

raustin

I was hoping the form would have a 'title' field (making 2 fields) and then both write to the same text file. Is that possible?

raustin

or should i write to an html page?

madwormer2

You could save it in the file HTML formatted, so when you pull it out again it should work... but then when you want a redesign you have a REAL pain in the ass lol.

Rictus

Instead of saving the file to html, try to save it to .php but braking the template on parts and then put them together with the

include(file.php');

function.

So if you ever need to change the template is a lot more easy.