Need a little help with a flat file shoutbox

[ToeBee]

Ok, I am really new at PHP and I have no access to MySql. So after endless hours of reading the PHP manual I have the start of what I want. There are two problems I am having right now.

1. Only one shout is wrote to the file and displayed. When you make a new shout the old one just gets deleted. I would like to display the last 10 and then have the rest on some kind of archieve so a user could click a link to see them. Like page 1,2,3 ect...

2. The text that is displayed does not seem to be affected by the css. Not sure what I did wrong there.

Here is the script so far

<?php

   if(!$name) $name = ("anonymous");

   if(!$message) die("<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;    

URL=testpage.php\">");

   if($url) $author = "<a href=\"\" onclick=\"pop('$url'); return        

false;\">$name</a>";

   else $author = $name;

  $shouts = fopen ("shout.txt","w");

  fwrite ($shouts, "<h1>$author</h1>$message\n");

  fclose ($shouts);

   Header ("Location: $HTTP_REFERER");

?>

Also here is what it looks like working
SHOUTBOX

Any help would be appreciated. i.e. point me in the right direction or offer a snippit of code. I was doin ok till this point but I am lost at the moment.

[wilku]

The problem lies with [man]fopen[/man]. You open the file with "w" parameter, meaning

Open for writing only; place the file pointer at the beginning of the file and truncate the file to zero length. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it.

The keyword is "truncate the file to zero length". Use "a" instead:

Open for writing only; place the file pointer at the end of the file. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it.

[ToeBee]

wilku- thanks so much. That should get me back on track.

Except for one thing.

place the file pointer at the end of the file

This makes the post go backwards. I guess there is a way to reverse the order? Maybe krsort 😕