Solved: Trying to write to a file.

namenotfound · 13-Feb-2006, 03:38 PM #1

I was getting tired of writing stuff in a file I use as a simple blog on my computer and uploading it to the net each time I wanted to add a new entree. So I wanted to see if I could do all this online.

Here's what I have in a file I made called writer.php

PHP Code:

  <?php

$entree = fopen("blog.php" , "a");
$date = date("l, F jS, Y");
$time = date("g:i:s A T");
$stamp = $date . "<br />" . $time;
fwrite($entree,"<hr /> \n");
fwrite($entree,"<strong>$stamp</strong> \n");
fwrite($entree,"<p>$content</p> \n");
fwrite($entree,"<hr /> \n");
fclose($entree);

echo <<<HTML
<p>Write entrees to the blog here.  Date and Time are automatically added for you.  No need to write them in!</p>
<form action='blog.php' method='post' onsubmit="this.target='_blank';return true;">
<textarea cols='70' rows='20'>$content</textarea><br />
<input type='submit' value='Submit Entry To Blog' />
</form>
HTML;

?>

but what outputs in blog.php is this

HTML Code:

<hr /> <strong>Monday, February 13th, 2006<br />2:09:02 PM CST</strong> <p></p> <hr />

Where it says <p></p> is supposed to be the what I entered into the textarea. But as you can see it's empty.

Can anyone fix this for me?

namenotfound · 14-Feb-2006, 10:47 AM #2

anyone?

treydx · 14-Feb-2006, 11:17 AM #3

And...
$content = [what?]

Why are you posting your form to the page you're writing? That's crazy, just redirect or use a regular anchor. I'm confused by your HTML, is that from a different page that posts to this one?? Is it supposed to post back to itself? If so, you need to test for a form being submitted before you write to blog.php.

If I was doing this, I'd create two pages.
1. addblog.html
This page would have your form and NAMED textarea on it and post to writer.php.
2. writer.php
This page would just read from your textarea and set $content and your timestamp. It would then redirect you to blog.php so it would be completely hidden from anyone adding an entry to your blog.

Right?

namenotfound · 11:31 AM

Interesting, can you post some sample code so I can take a better look at what you just said?

No one else is going to make entrees, it's bascally a simple blog of events I'm doing. No one is going to comment. The whole file itself will be hidden, only the end result "blog.php" will be public

$content = whatever I write in the textarea.

treydx · 14-Feb-2006, 11:27 AM #5

So when this page runs, your blog has already been appended before you click "submit to blog"? It makes more sense now

so how about
$content = $_POST['content']?

namenotfound · 14-Feb-2006, 11:35 AM #6

I tried adding that but doesn't seem to be working

treydx · 14-Feb-2006, 11:39 AM #7

Sample Code:

addtoblog.html (very simple page)

HTML Code:

<form method="post" action="writer.php"> <textarea id="content" name="content" cols="1" rows="1"></textarea> <input type="submit" /> </form>

then your writer.php page (which does server side processing)

PHP Code:

  <?php

 
$entree = fopen("blog.php" , "a");

$date = date("l, F jS, Y");

$time = date("g:i:s A T");

$stamp = $date . "<br />" . $time;

$content = $_POST['content'];

fwrite($entree,"<hr /> \n");

fwrite($entree,"<strong>$stamp</strong> \n");

fwrite($entree,"<p>$content</p> \n");

fwrite($entree,"<hr /> \n");

fclose($entree);

 
?>

Done Adding Entry.

<a href="blog.php">Go to blog</a>

Or instead of the anchor you could just redirect. Is that clear(er)?

namenotfound · 14-Feb-2006, 11:42 AM #8

That's pretty cool, it works

Thanks

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