Writing HTML to a Text file...

[Anon]

I am writing a guestbook script and I have had to working by using the write command to a text file but when you view the entries all you get is something looking like this..

Name: Adam Gajic, E-Mail: [e-mail], Comment(s): Very nice site

What I want to do is put that into HTML but when I have tried writing HTML to a text file it just throws it back as a parse error.

This is the file..

<?php
$filename = "entries.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename,'a');
$string = "Name: $name, E-Mail: $email, Comment(s): $comments";
fputs($handle, $string);
fclose($handle);
?>

<?php

include("header.inc");

?>

Thank you for signing my guestbook!<br><br>

<a href="view.php3">View Entries</a>

<?php

include("footer.inc");

?>

I have tried as much as I can think of, I have tried using a .html extension instead of .txt but that doesn't work. I have tried putting the HTML inside of the $string variable. Just to make my book look a little more smart I have even tried putting line spacings by pressing enter lol, that don't work.

The view.php3 page is just includes, header.inc, entries.txt, footer.inc

Can someone please tell me how to get my guestbook thing to accept the HTML that I put into the text file because it just looks a mess!

Thanks.
Adam

[Anon]

I do not understand what you are asking. You say you are trying to put HTML into a text file... fine... that's all html is anyways, just a text file. When you execute this code...

<?php
$filename = "entries.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename,'a');
$string = "Name: $name, E-Mail: $email, Comment(s): $comments";
fputs($handle, $string);
fclose($handle);
?>

...Does the fputs command return you the parse error? And if so, does it always return the parse error? Also, $string will need to account for possible quotes in the string, which would destroy your fputs command. Try this:

<?php
$filename = "entries.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename,'a');
$string = htmlspecialchars("Name: $name, E-Mail: $email, Comment(s): $comments", ENT_QUOTES);
fputs($handle, $string);
fclose($handle);
?>

Anyway, I still don't know what the real problem is. I'm just pointing out stuff. Maybe I should not come to PHPBuilder right after I wake up... :-( Oh well, write back and explain more about this HTML problem and you will undoubtedly get a working fix. Till then.

AZ
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[Anon]

Sorry mate what I was saying was that in $string can I add HTML into that?

If not how else could I write HTML into my data (entries.txt) file along with the user input?

does that make more sence?/

thx

[Anon]

Sure that makes sense. And YES, you can add html to your string. But if you perform the htmlspecialchars function on the string after it has the html code, then all that html code will be changed. Hopefully this will be a good example of what you can do:

$string = "<B>Name: </B>" . htmlspecialchars($name, ENT_QUOTES) . ", <B>E-Mail: </B>" . htmlspecialchars($email, ENT_QUOTES) . ", <B>Comment(s): </B>" . htmlspecialchars($comments, ENT_QUOTES);

That's really long and ugly but it should work. It's just using the <B> (Bold) html command... Hope that's what you were looking for. You could of course use a <TABLE> to print all these strings into and that would make your ourput a lot more attractive, but I of course should recommend that you use a database for doing this stuff. Ain't nothin' like a database for getting data out of, cept' for maybe the brain but certainly not mine. Hehehe

AZ
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[Anon]

Gosh dabnit, that didn't show my BOLD statements... crap ola. Okay so what I was trying to do was:

$string = "&lt;Name: &gt;" . htmlspecialchars($name, ENT_QUOTES) . ", &lt;E-Mail: &gt;" . htmlspecialchars($email, ENT_QUOTES) . ", &lt;Comment(s): &gt;" . htmlspecialchars($comments, ENT_QUOTES);

[Anon]

NOT AGAIN...

$string = "&lt;B&gt;Name: &lt;/B&gt;" . htmlspecialchars($name, ENT_QUOTES) . ", &lt;B&gt;E-Mail: &lt;/B&gt;" . htmlspecialchars($email, ENT_QUOTES) . ", &lt;B&gt;Comment(s): &lt;/B&gt;" . htmlspecialchars($comments, ENT_QUOTES);

IF THAT DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT I AM GOING TO STAB MYSELF!!!

AZ
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