Re: Writing & Displaying Records

No, right now the records are just being written one right after another. I am not quite sure how I would sparate the records by carriage returns. Would you mind elaborating some? This is my first attempt at doing anything with reading and writing files in php so I still have a lot to learn. I will look into that command, nl2br too. Thanks To reply personally, remove all numbers from my address. David Robley wrote: > On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, Andrew V. Romero wrote: > > 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 > > Presumably the records in your text file are separated by carriage returns? > Remember that browsers treat carriage returns, spaces and tabs as 'white > space' and essentially discard them. You need to use nl2br to convert your > newlines (carriage returns) to BR tags. > > -- > David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin > RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | ���V{� > ��C��]�k�http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ > AusEinet | > http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ > Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA > > -- > 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 -- Andrew V. Romero Romer1999o@pharmacy.arizona.edu Remove the #'s from my address to reply. http://www.u.arizona.edu/~avr/ ICQ #54080914