Need some basic PHP help.

Anon

Ok, I need to make a form with 3 fields.
There are:
- Name
- E-Mail
- Message
Then a submit button.
It will take this information and put it into a text file called news.txt.
The only problem is, I'm not that experience with using PHP w/ Forms. So, If someone can gladly help me and post here how its done, I'll gladly appriciate it.
Thanks in advance,
Jos.

craigh

1) make your form in HTML set the form action to action.php or whatever you want (be sure the suffix is appropriate for your server set up)

2) in action.php the form information will come through as variable named $fieldname (or whatever you named it)

3) use that information to write it to your text field.

check out this tutorial

http://echodev.com/tutorials/php/basics/

Anon

Thanks for the link.
Can you tell me whats wrong with this?

$result = \"$team1 -beat- $team2\";
$fp = fopen(record.txt, \"a\");
fwrite($fp, $result);
fclose($fp);

Thanks,
Jos.

craigh

You don't need to escape your characters in this case. Try:

$result = "$team1 -beat- $team2";
$fp = fopen(record.txt, "a");
fwrite($fp, $result);
fclose($fp);

you only need to escape characters if you want the value to include that character e.g. to actually print \t on the screen you would use:

echo "\t";

Anon

Thanks again, but when trying that I get the following error messages:

Warning: fopen("laddertxt","a") - Permission denied in
my/web/site/path/testing.php on line 19

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in
my/web/site/path/testing.php on line 20

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in
my/web/site/path/testing.php on line 21

Lines 19-21 are the ones from your post.
Thanks again,
Jos.

craigh

well, we're getting a little beyond my experience here, so I am shooting in the dark now.

check: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

for more info on the function.

the permission problem is probably the entire problem. You need to enable yourself write permission in that directory. probably using the chmod command. In order to do this you need to telnet to the machine, then do

chmod 777 fileNameOrDirectoryName

I THINK*

on the other hand, this could blow up your server... ;-)

talk to your host admin and get more accurate info probably.

craig