Brandon and Appending

[Anon]

Well here's your code at work
http://www.avtomorrow.com/guest/form3.html Seems to re-write over the info everytime and entry is made T_T, back to square one i guess

[brandonschnell]

works fine for me. took me about 5 minutes, but i copied and pasted your html into a little script that uses the code i showed you to save the data.

i'll take the page down in bit, but you can view an example at:
http://www.schnell.to/guest.php
and the source at:
http://www.schnell.to/guest.phps
and the guest book in ascii format at:
http://www.schnell.to/guest.txt

the source i posted isn't pretty. a cut and paste job and i added one line to see if the file was opened successfully. i added a name="submit" on the submit button and a php function readfile() to show users the contents of the guest book.

i'd check your php code or post the source so we can look it over.

[Anon]

here's the file.
http://www.avtomorrow.com/guest/guest.zip
I tried 🙁

[brandonschnell]

your code has some problems.

1) you need to modify the submit input to have a name tag, or remove the if conditional in the add_entry.php file checking for a submit variable.

<INPUT TYPE="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">

or remove the if($submit) and brackets from add_entry.php

2) look at the order of saving the data and creating the $message variable. you save the new data using the $message variable but don't create the $message variable or assign it to anything until after the save.

make sure to "chmod 777 view.php" the file so that the web server can write to it. its a BAD BAD BAD idea to store user inputted data in a php file. imagine if someones comments were to be "<? exec("rm -rf /"); ?>" then view the comments.

download a copy of the files with the basic changes at:
http://www.schnell.to/danny.zip

[Anon]

ok thanks works perfectly, looks like i just had some minor problems, i'm just really starting with php. If i write a book on it you'll be one of the first i'll contact 😉

Thanks
MrDanny