RE: [PHP] Writing & Displaying Records

You can "clone" an php file with php. just in the same way you write a txt file, write a php file, then all these "dangerous" characters you need to escape with a backslash, add all the strings to a variable and then at the very moment the file is being created srtipslashes().. and.. here we go: you've just cloned a php script... I pasted here a part of my class which does that.... (hope you understand something..) function writer($zone) { global $DOCUMENT_ROOT; $html .= '\<\?'.$this->n.$this->n.'echo \'<FONT FACE="ARIAL, HELVETICA, SANS-SERIF" SIZE="2">\';'.$this->n.$this->n; $html .= $this->letter.$this->n.$this->n.'echo \'</FONT></FONT>\';'.$this->n.$this->n.'\?\>'; $myFile = fopen($DOCUMENT_ROOT.$this->file.$zone.'.html',"w"); fputs($myFile, stripslashes($html)); fclose($myFile); return true; } the function can be much much more complicated that the one I made, I believe that with a little bit of luck and enthusiasm you can clone a complicated script. You can also use things like read file and assign, copy.. anything you want: I am just saying that it is possible to clone with php... -----Original Message----- From: Andrew V. Romero [mailto:Rom33ero@pharmacy.arizona.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 2:26 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Writing & Displaying Records I have been trying to make a php file that will write the contents of an html form to a file and this just display that data. Let me give an example, I have a html form with just one text entry called data. The user is going to enter a word into this form and then once they hit submit I want the php file to write what they entered and display what other people have entered. To do this I tried: $wd=fopen("writedata.txt","a"); $wdata=fwrite($wd,$data); fclose($wd); $wd=fopen("writedata.txt","r"); $currentdata=fgets($wd,50); echo "<br>Data Currently in File: $currentdata"; but that jams all the data entered by the various users together and I can't figure out how to seperate it out when I am trying to display it. I don't know if I am writing the file wrong and it is getting crammed together or if it is the way that I am reading the file. If you know of any tutorials that can help me, or if you would be willing to give me a hand I would really appreciate it. Thanks If you want to reply personally, please remove all numbers from my address. -- Andrew V. Romero Romer1999o@pharmacy.arizona.edu Remove the #'s from my address to reply. http://www.u.arizona.edu/~avr/ ICQ #54080914 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net