I'm currently working on a project for college but i'm having issues with it. I have two pages with a form on each which includes three text fields (des,act,date) I'm trying to make it so that it will add to the text document the information from the forms but at the minute all it is doing is overwriting it. Anyone know how to solve this?
Page 1
if (isset($_GET['logout'])){
session_destroy();
}
if (!isset($_SESSION['loggedin']) || $_SESSION['loggedin'] == false) {
header("Location: index.php");
}
//Send Data
$content = 'OBSERVATION'."\r\n".'Breif Description: '.$_POST['des1']."\r\n".'Agreed Action: '.$_POST['act1']."\r\n".'Close Date: '.$_POST['date1']."\r\n";
if (isset($_POST['submit'])){
$myFile=fopen("Observation.txt","w") or exit("Can’t open file!");
fwrite($myFile, $content);
fclose($myFile);
header( 'Location: http://www.murphy.sulmaxmarketing.com/GoodPractices.php' ) ;
}
?>
Page 2
if (isset($_GET['logout'])){
session_destroy();
}
if (!isset($_SESSION['loggedin']) || $_SESSION['loggedin'] == false) {
header("Location: index.php");
}
//Send Data
$content = "\r\n\r\n".'GOOD PRACTICES'."\r\n".'Breif Description: '.$_POST['des2']."\r\n".'Agreed Action: '.$_POST['act2']."\r\n".'Close Date: '.$_POST['date2']."\r\n";
if (isset($_POST['submit'])){
$myFile=fopen("Observation.txt","w") or exit("Can’t open file!");
fwrite($myFile, $content);
fclose($myFile);
}
?>
fopen() with a mode of 'w'
Open for writing only; place the file pointer at the beginning of the file and truncate the file to zero length. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it.
fopen() with a mode of 'a'
Open for writing only; place the file pointer at the end of the file. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it. In this mode, fseek() has no effect, writes are always appended.
Use file_put_contents function with FILE_APPEND flag.
This function is identical to calling fopen(), fwrite() and fclose()
successively to write data to a file.
FILE_APPEND : If file filename already exists, append the data to the file instead of overwriting it.
...
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
file_put_contents("Observation.txt", $content, FILE_APPEND);
header( 'Location: http://www.murphy.sulmaxmarketing.com/GoodPractices.php' ) ;
exit;
}
...
http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php
Use file_put_content
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
file_put_contents("Observation.txt", $content, FILE_APPEND);
... your code here
}
Here third parameter in file_put_content "FILE_APPEND" will append your file every time with new content in your previous code it was overwrite one content with another because of same name so if you want to do it on that way than you want to set different name of both file.
Here file_put_content function url : http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php
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I've started a small project trying to make an online text editor, it WAS going well until the system started overwriting files and adding spaces in unnecessarily. I have one file called editor.php where all the file loading, saving and editing is done.
So this is the opening/closing for the files:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['new'])){
$filer = substr(md5(microtime()),rand(0,26),6);
$file_create = $filer.".txt";
$handle = fopen("files/".$file_create,"w");
fclose($handle);
header("Location: editor.php?e=".$filer);
}
$file = $_GET['e'];
$file = basename($file);
$filename = "files/".$file.".txt";
$file_get = file_get_contents($filename);
if(isset($_POST['save'])){
file_put_contents($filename, $_POST['text']);
}
?>
further down the page I have this in a <textarea> tag:
<?php
echo $file_content;
?>
This uses the string from the file_get_contents();
But when I save, nothing happens, in fact it erases the file, when I load a file there are eight spaces but nothing else.
I know there is another way to do this with fopen() and if someone could give me a method to use that, it would be much appreciated.
You have to verify if the $_POST['text'] actually has a content in it.
if(isset($_GET['e'])){
$file = $_GET['e'];
$file = basename($file);
$filename = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/files/".$file.".txt";
$file_get = file_get_contents($filename);
if(isset($_POST['save'])){
if(!empty($_POST['text']) && isset($_POST['text']))
{
$length = strlen($_POST['text']);
if($length > 0)
file_put_contents($filename, trim($_POST['text']));
else
die("No content");
}
}
}
ALso check if the file exists and its writable. You can use chmod,mkdir and file_exists functions.
Have a look at PHP's file modes: http://php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php
If you are opening all your files using fopen() in w mode then your files are being truncated as they are opened. This is how w mode operates. Try using a+ or c+ modes with fopen().
EDIT
Also, the file_put_contents() will also overwrite file contents unless you sett the FILE_APPEND flag, e.g. file_put_contents($file, $data, FILE_APPEND).
My telecom vendor is sending me a report each time a message goes out. I have written a very simple PHP script that receive values via HTTP GET. Using fwrite I write the query parameter to a CSV file.The filename is report.csv with the current date as a prefix.
Here is the code :
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
//setting a the CSV File
$fileDate = date("m-d-Y") ;
$filename = $fileDate."_Report.csv";
$directory = "./csv_archive/";
//Creating handle
$handle = fopen($filename, "a");
//These are the main data field
$item1 = $_GET['item1'];
$item2 = $_GET['item2'];
$item3 = $_GET['item3'];
$mydate = date("Y-m-d H:i:s") ;
$pass = $_GET['pass'];
//testing the pass
if (isset($_GET['pass']) AND $_GET['pass'] == "password")
{
echo 'Login successful';
// just making sure the function could write to it
if (!$handle = fopen($directory.$filename, 'a')){
echo "Cannot open file ($filename)";
exit;
}
//writing the data I receive through query string
if (fwrite($handle, "$item1,$item2,$item3,$mydate \n") === FALSE) {
echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
exit;
}
fclose($handle);
}
else{
echo 'Login Failure please add the right pass to URL';
}
?>
The script does what I want, but the only problem is inconsistency, meaning that a good portion of the records are missing (about half the report). When I log to my account I can get the complete report.
I have no clue of what I need to do to fix this, please advice.
I have a couple of suggestions for this script.
To address Andrew Rhyne's suggestion, change your code that reads from each $GET variable to:
$item1 = (isset($_GET['item1']) && $_GET['item1']) ? $_GET['item1'] : 'empty';
This will tell you if all your fields are being populated.
I suspect you problem is something else. It sounds like you are getting a seperate request for each record that you want to save. Perhaps some of these requests are happening to close together and are messing up each other's ability to open and write to the file. To check if this is happening, you might try using the following code check if you opened the file correctly. (Note that your first use of 'fopen' in your script does nothing, because you are overwriting $handle with your second use of 'fopen', it is also opening the wrong file...)
if (!$handle = fopen($directory.$filename, 'a')){
$handle = fopen($directory.date("Y-m-d H:i:s:u").'_Record_Error.txt', 'a');
exit;
}
This will make sure that you don't ever lose data because of concurrent write attempts. If you find that this is indeed you issue, you can delay subsequent write attempts until the file is not busy.
$tries = 0;
while ($tries < 50 && !$handle = fopen($directory.$filename, 'a')){
sleep(.5);//wait half a second
$tries++;
}
if($handle){
flock($handle);//lock the file to prevent other requests from opening the file until you are done.
} else {
$handle = fopen($directory.date("Y-m-d H:i:s:u").'_Record_Error.txt', 'a');//the 'u' is for milliseconds
exit;
}
This will spend 25 seconds, trying to open the file once every half second and will still output your record to a unique file every time you are still unable to open the file to write to. You can then safely fwrite() and fclose() $handle as you were.
hi when i execute this code nothing happen in browser but when i delete lines with star,the contents printed correctly,whats wrong??
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$documentroot=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$handle=fopen("$documentroot/order/order.txt",'r+');
if(!$handle) {
echo 'error opening file';
}
$content="pepsi\ncola\npeperoni";
$write=fwrite($handle,$content); //*
if(!$write){ //*
echo 'error writing'; //*
} //*
while(!feof($handle)) {
$string=fgets($handle);
echo $string;
}
this line should be like this.
$handle=fopen("$documentroot/order/order.txt",'w');
file should be open in the write mode.try this.
Thanks.
/* This is the opening tag on PHP and it needs to be closed with another */ but the * in front this time. You can stick with // for just one line of commenting.
You are opening the file in r+ mode which means read+write mode. But if the file orders.txt does not exist, it'll not be created. So ensure file exists.
Also when there is problem with opening the file, you immediately exit.
if(!$handle) {
echo 'error opening file';
exit; // MISSING
}
Assuming the file already exists, it's contents will be wiped after the fopen. Next the fwrite will write the contents. Now the file pointer is at the end of the file so your call to feof() in the while loop will return true and the while is never entered.
To fix this you rewind the file pointer before you start reading from the file:
rewind($handle); // ADD THIS
while(!feof($handle)) {
...
}
$documentroot=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$handle=fopen("$documentroot/order/order.txt",'r+');
if(!$handle) {
echo 'error opening file';
}
$content="pepsi\ncola\npeperoni";
$write=fwrite($handle,$content);
if(!$write){
echo 'error writing';
}
fseek($handle, 0);
while(!feof($handle)) {
$string=fgets($handle);
echo $string;
}
After file write operation, your file pointer sets to the end of written data which needs to set to the start position for fgets. fseek does that.
fseek($handle, 0);
This will take your pointer to the beginning so that fgets now can read from file. fgets function needs valid file pointer to read which in this case is the start position.
I have this script on one free PHP-supporting server:
<html>
<body>
<?php
$file = fopen("lidn.txt","a");
fclose($file);
?>
</body>
</html>
It creates the file lidn.txt, but it's empty.
How can I create a file and write something into it,
for example the line "Cats chase mice"?
You can use a higher-level function like:
file_put_contents($filename, $content);
which is identical to calling fopen(), fwrite(), and fclose() successively to write data to a file.
Docs: file_put_contents
Consider fwrite():
<?php
$fp = fopen('lidn.txt', 'w');
fwrite($fp, 'Cats chase mice');
fclose($fp);
?>
$fp = fopen('lidn.txt', 'w');
fwrite($fp, 'Cats chase');
fwrite($fp, 'mice');
fclose($fp);
http://php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php
$text = "Cats chase mice";
$filename = "somefile.txt";
$fh = fopen($filename, "a");
fwrite($fh, $text);
fclose($fh);
You use fwrite()
It is easy to write file :
$fp = fopen('lidn.txt', 'w');
fwrite($fp, 'Cats chase mice');
fclose($fp);
Here are the steps:
Open the file
Write to the file
Close the file
$select = "data what we trying to store in a file";
$file = fopen("/var/www/htdocs/folder/test.txt", "w");
fwrite($file, $select->__toString());
fclose($file);
I use the following code to write files on my web directory.
write_file.html
<form action="file.php"method="post">
<textarea name="code">Code goes here</textarea>
<input type="submit"value="submit">
</form>
write_file.php
<?php
// strip slashes before putting the form data into target file
$cd = stripslashes($_POST['code']);
// Show the msg, if the code string is empty
if (empty($cd))
echo "Nothing to write";
// if the code string is not empty then open the target file and put form data in it
else
{
$file = fopen("demo.php", "w");
echo fwrite($file, $cd);
// show a success msg
echo "data successfully entered";
fclose($file);
}
?>
This is a working script. be sure to change the url in the form action and the target file in fopen() function if you want to use it on your site.
In order to write to a file in PHP you need to go through the following steps:
Open the file
Write to the file
Close the file
$select = "data what we trying to store in a file";
$file = fopen("/var/www/htdocs/folder/test.txt", "a");
fwrite($file , $select->__toString());
fclose($file );
fwrite() is a smidgen faster and file_put_contents() is just a wrapper around those three methods anyway, so you would lose the overhead.
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file_put_contents(file,data,mode,context):
The file_put_contents writes a string to a file.
This function follows these rules when accessing a file.If FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH is set, check the include path for a copy of filename
Create the file if it does not exist then Open the file and Lock the file if LOCK_EX is set and If FILE_APPEND is set, move to the end of the file. Otherwise, clear the file content
Write the data into the file and Close the file and release any locks.
This function returns the number of the character written into the file on success, or FALSE on failure.
fwrite(file,string,length):
The fwrite writes to an open file.The function will stop at the end of the file or when it reaches the specified length,
whichever comes first.This function returns the number of bytes written or FALSE on failure.
I have:
<?php
$file=fopen(date("Y-m-d").".txt","r+") or exit("Unable to open file!");
if ($_POST["lastname"] <> "")
{
fwrite($file,$_POST["lastname"]."\n");
}
fclose($file);
?>
but it overwrites the beginning of the file. How do I make it insert?
I'm not entirely sure of your question - do you want to write data and not have it over-write the beginning of an existing file, or write new data to the start of an existing file, keeping the existing content after it?
To insert text without over-writing the beginning of the file, you'll have to open it for appending (a+ rather than r+)
$file=fopen(date("Y-m-d").".txt","a+") or exit("Unable to open file!");
if ($_POST["lastname"] <> "")
{
fwrite($file,$_POST["lastname"]."\n");
}
fclose($file);
If you're trying to write to the start of the file, you'll have to read in the file contents (see file_get_contents) first, then write your new string followed by file contents to the output file.
$old_content = file_get_contents($file);
fwrite($file, $new_content."\n".$old_content);
The above approach will work with small files, but you may run into memory limits trying to read a large file in using file_get_conents. In this case, consider using rewind($file), which sets the file position indicator for handle to the beginning of the file stream.
Note when using rewind(), not to open the file with the a (or a+) options, as:
If you have opened the file in append ("a" or "a+") mode, any data you write to the file will always be appended, regardless of the file position.
A working example for inserting in the middle of a file stream without overwriting, and without having to load the whole thing into a variable/memory:
function finsert($handle, $string, $bufferSize = 16384) {
$insertionPoint = ftell($handle);
// Create a temp file to stream into
$tempPath = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), "file-chainer");
$lastPartHandle = fopen($tempPath, "w+");
// Read in everything from the insertion point and forward
while (!feof($handle)) {
fwrite($lastPartHandle, fread($handle, $bufferSize), $bufferSize);
}
// Rewind to the insertion point
fseek($handle, $insertionPoint);
// Rewind the temporary stream
rewind($lastPartHandle);
// Write back everything starting with the string to insert
fwrite($handle, $string);
while (!feof($lastPartHandle)) {
fwrite($handle, fread($lastPartHandle, $bufferSize), $bufferSize);
}
// Close the last part handle and delete it
fclose($lastPartHandle);
unlink($tempPath);
// Re-set pointer
fseek($handle, $insertionPoint + strlen($string));
}
$handle = fopen("file.txt", "w+");
fwrite($handle, "foobar");
rewind($handle);
finsert($handle, "baz");
// File stream is now: bazfoobar
Composer lib for it can be found here
You get the same opening the file for appending
<?php
$file=fopen(date("Y-m-d").".txt","a+") or exit("Unable to open file!");
if ($_POST["lastname"] <> "")
{
fwrite($file,$_POST["lastname"]."\n");
}
fclose($file);
?>
If you want to put your text at the beginning of the file, you'd have to read the file contents first like:
<?php
$file=fopen(date("Y-m-d").".txt","r+") or exit("Unable to open file!");
if ($_POST["lastname"] <> "")
{
$existingText = file_get_contents($file);
fwrite($file, $existingText . $_POST["lastname"]."\n");
}
fclose($file);
?>