Save form data in a txt file with current date in file name

[trazix]

I cant get this to work, I put the code inside html, head and body tags and saved it as .php file it just displays a page of the code and nothing else.

How did you test it. Am I doing something wrong

[traq]

damn spam...

Edit: no more spam! thanks

I cant get this to work, I put the code inside html, head and body tags and saved it as .php file it just displays a page of the code and nothing else.

How did you test it. Am I doing something wrong

The actual php code displays? Check your <?php ?> tags and make sure you have all the php code contained within. You also need to create a subdirectory named "write" in the same directory as this file. Otherwise, I'm not sure what the problem would be. The code I posted is *exactly* what I have online here.

[trazix]

Got the web page to display but when i click Submit I get this message

Comments submitted so far:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function filter_var() in /www/htdocs/TEST.php on line 50

Not sure what could be wrong your code is just copy and pasted to my file.

[thetestingsite]

What version of PHP do you have installed? If it is below PHP 5, then filter_var will not work.

Hope this helps.

[traq]

yeah. contact your webhost; sometimes they can upgrade. 1and1, for example, advertises php5 but runs php4 by default and you have to use .htaccess to switch to php5.

alternatively, replace this line:

$filecontent = filter_var($RAWfilecontent, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); 

with this:

$filecontent = htmlentities($RAWfilecontent); 

which will also make the user input safer, but won't look as nice. For example, if someone tried to attack your site by saving a message like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
     window.location = "www.endlesspopups.com"
</script>

FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING would strip the tags (preventing the code from running) and display it like this:

window.location = "www.endlesspopups.com"

and htmlentities would encode the < > characters (preventing the code from running) and display the original message just as you see it above.

[trazix]

It'S PHP Version 5.1.6 , I am using a freehost service just for testing and learning.

I modified that line and it works, but the posted messages are not in the order they were posted it semes to be random.

[traq]

If you're running php5, then filter_var ought to work (and would be preferable, IMO). Likewise, I don't know why the messages would be being displayed in random order. Would you link to your test page?

[trazix]

Link to test page
http://yabadabadoo.blackapplehost.co...New%20TEST.php

Link to Php info page
http://yabadabadoo.blackapplehost.co...ver%20Info.php

[traq]

... no idea.
it does seem to be random. but it seems to always be in the same random order (except for each new submission, of course).

[trazix]

I have come up with a solution to show the files from the last one posted, first i open the filecount.txt file and get the number stored in it, then i use it to count backwards and then include the .txt file on the page. Here is the code

<?php
$filename= "filecount.txt" ;
$fd = fopen ($filename , "r") or die ("Can't open $filename") ;
$fstring = fread ($fd , filesize ($filename)) ;

include('write/'.--$fstring.'.txt');

include('write/'.--$fstring.'.txt');

include('write/'.--$fstring.'.txt');

include('write/'.--$fstring.'.txt');

include('write/'.--$fstring.'.txt');

include('write/'.--$fstring.'.txt');

include('write/'.--$fstring.'.txt');

include('write/'.--$fstring.'.txt');

include('write/'.--$fstring.'.txt');

include('write/'.--$fstring.'.txt');

include('write/'.--$fstring.'.txt');

include('write/'.--$fstring.'.txt');

fclose($fd) ;

?>

And a link to it
http://yabadabadoo.blackapplehost.co.../Showfiles.php

Now the problem here i all the text is bunched together.
What i would like is to have a break between each file include, I tryed putting in echo <br> but nothing would display.

Also the code is long I am sure a loop or something could be writen to do what all the above includes are doing, If posible i would like it to just display the last 20 files posted with a link then for the next 20 and so on, I hope somebody is up to this challenge a my php is very basic and getting the above code working was not easy for me.