Php For Dummies - Php Tutorial 7

In this tutorial you will learn how to get a php script to write user-inputed data to a text file.

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[TsumiESM]

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

[flash4real]

@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.

[gabriellippincott10]

@flash4real Using 'w' doesnt seem to change a thing for me in regards to overwriting the txt file. 'a' and 'w' do the same thing for me or atleast it seems that way. Am I doing something wrong?

[flash4real]

@gabriellippincott10

Here are the different modes:

r - read

r+ - read, write, prepend

w - write, truncate

w+ - read, write, truncate

a - write, append

a+ - read, write, append

[flash4real]

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

[gabriellippincott10]

@TsumiESM I had the same issue with the variable a first ,it gave me error code of an undefined variable for a if I didnt put it in inverted commas('a'). Is it supposed to constantly rewrite over the same txt file?

[LusoCMD]

yep, can´t make it work either

[lurviQ]

does not work

[TsumiESM]

@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.

[peromajstore]

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?