saving to a list?

[darco9x2]

i want to set up a page, that will allow me to add somthing to a list and that list will be displayed on another page. i can probably figure out how to display the list, but how can i get it to save? i plan on using a form to save it, so can anybody help me out?

[Pixelcode]

You could add to the list in a text file and have every new entry on a new line e.g.
LIST ITEM 1
LIST ITEM 2

Then read the text file line by line to display the list.

<?
if($_POST['Submit']){
$open = fopen("textlist.txt","w+");
$text = $_POST['list']."\r\n";
fwrite($open, $text);
fclose($open);
echo "File updated."; 
}else{
echo "<form action=\"".$PHP_SELF."\" method=\"post\">";
echo "<textarea Name=\"list\"></textarea>";
echo "<input name=\"Submit\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Update\" />\n
</form>";
}
?>

View file line by line:

$file = file("textlist.txt");
echo "<ul>";
foreach($file as $text) {
echo "<li>".$text."</li>";
}
echo "</ul>"; 

[darco9x2]

thankyou so much.


edit: i tried it out, and it overwrites it now instead of adding to it. is it supposed to do that?

[Twey]

If you want it to append, replace

$open = fopen("textlist.txt","w+");

with

$open = fopen("textlist.txt","a+");

Note that you'll have to seek to the beginning of the file before reading from it:

fseek($open, 0);

and if you then want to write to it again, you'll need to seek back to the end:

fseek($open, 0, SEEK_END);

[darco9x2]

ok thanks that clears it up.