Simple Comments Page

[mbrown174]

Hello all, Im trying to create a simple comments page for my website that checks for afiles existence using the datestamp as a name. For some reason I cant get my code to work - does anyone have any pointers? Thanx

Code As Follows...
<?php
$timeofyear = date( "M:Y");
$fn = "../texts/" + "$timeofyear" + ".txt";
$content = stripslashes($_POST['content']); // Variable For posting content
$fp = fopen($fn,"w") or die ("Error opening file in write mode!"); // Check for files existence
fputs($fp,$content); // Place content in file
fclose($fp) or die ("Error closing file!");
?>
<form action="comments.php" method="post" class="style6">
<textarea name="content" cols="100" rows="20" class="style12" id="textarea1">
<?
$fn = "../texts/" + "$timeofyear" + ".txt";
print htmlspecialchars(implode("",file($fn)));
?></textarea>

<input name="submit2" type="submit" class="style13" value="Add Comments" /></form>

[SpecialFX]

Cleaned it up some try this i didn't test it, just eyeballed it. But the gist of the changes were that to connect strings together you need to use '.' not '+'. Also check out some of the functions such as is_file() or is_dir().

<?
//set variables
$timeofyear = date( "M:Y");
$fn               = "../texts/".$timeofyear.".txt";
$content      = $_POST['content'];
//check file existence
if(is_file($fn)){
    $fp = fopen($fn,"w");
    fputs($fp,$content);
    fclose($fp) or die ("Error closing file!");
} 
?> 
<form action="comments.php" method="post" class="style6">
<textarea name="content" cols="100" rows="20" class="style12" id="textarea1">
<?
//were you trying to get rid of spacing in filename? If so that's what below does.
print str_replace(" ", "", $fn);
?>
</textarea> 
<input name="submit2" type="submit" class="style13" value="Add Comments" /></form>

[mbrown174]

Thanks very much for that - im looking thru it all now.