Comments on: Php For Dummies – Php Tutorial 7

By: Knk082

Knk082 — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:26:53 +0000

How would I get it to work with a form that takes a name and last name. Seems easier with one text field but with two I can't figure it out. I also would need it to print the first and last name into a text document

By: flash4real

flash4real — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:14:58 +0000

have you attempted it? send me the code i'll take a look at it.

By: peromajstore

peromajstore — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:05:43 +0000

It dont works with /a ….. only, with "a"
$handle = fopen('text.txt' , "a");
But if I enter the text, it saves it, but if i leave the field emptyt it wrote: Your file has been saved.
What should be the problem?

By: TsumiESM

TsumiESM — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:49:08 +0000

Hello and thank you so much – I haven't written a program since the 90s and this is awesome, I wanted to ask a few questions.
First of all – I couldn't get the line "$handle = fopen('text.txt', 'a')" to work without putting the a inside inverted commas. Is that normal?
Second, when I save the file, it doesn't write over itself but the text is added to the back end of the file; in other words if I save four different sentences, one at a time, the text file retains them all, is that correct? Thx

By: flash4real

flash4real — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:11:43 +0000

@TsumiESM Yes, the 'a' should be in inverted commas.

Different letters do different things – 'a' appends to the file. If you want it to overwrite, use 'w' instead.

By: TsumiESM

TsumiESM — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:58:53 +0000

@flash4real Ah, thank you thank you. I gotta say I'm really enjoying this. The last program I wrote was in AppleBasic heh – this is fantastic, to be learning to code again. Thank you.

By: lurviQ

lurviQ — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:57:34 +0000

does not work