creation of text files in PHP ?

Anon

Hi,

 How do i create a text file in PHP.I actually want to add dilimeters to a existing text file and transfer the modified version into a newly created text file.

     thanks in advance.
                     Suparna

Anon

Read the manual, the section about filesystem functions.

Anon

this is a very basic example, and there are better ways of doing it - this should get you started though.

this page is a guestbook i wrote
http://club494.dormroad.com/board.php3
scroll to the bottom and select 'guest book code' to see the source

Anon

Nice page, pity it only takes the first line of what a user enters, while it offers a whole textarea to type your message in.

Otherwise, damn fine!

Anon

good call on the one line bug. since i have nothing to do on a friday night i fixed it for you all and cleaned up the code a bit.

quick summary:
if an entry had a newline it it it would be saved to the text file correctly but because it reads in messages to display one line at a time it would not display the other lines. to fix this i first tried the function nl2br which added br's in the right place but didnt remove the nl's... so i ended up using the function str_replace("\n", "", $message) to replace all nl's with '' ( i dont want multiple lines on my site). you could use this if you do want multiple lines: str_replace("\n", "<br>", $message)

again the source can be found at this page: http://club494.dormroad.com/board.php3 by scrolling to the bottom and selecting 'guest book code'
you can use this code, just tell me if you do.

-paul