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With guidance this is how far I've gotten. Thanks for the help~~~Still getting an error for one of the "else" statements though <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); //This is for error reporting ini_set('display_errors', 'On'); //because I want all errors to show if($_POST['formSubmit'] == 'Submit') { //This grabs the information from the form if (empty($_POST['Name'])) //This is in case the user doesn't input a name $errors .= "<p>You must enter your name </p>\n"; //This displays the error to the user if (empty($_POST['Age'])) //This is in case the user doesn't input an age $errors .= "<p>You must enter your age </p>\n" //This displays the error to the user else (!is_numeric($_POST['Age'])) //This makes sure the age is numeric $errors .= "<p>Your age must be a whole number </p>\n"; //This displays that the number is not in correct format if ((empty($_POST['Average'])) //This is in case the average post is empty or doesn't $errors .= "<p>You must enter your average(enter 0 if you don't have one) </p>\n"; //show a value between 0 and 300==error displays else if ( is_numeric($_POST['Average'])) && ($_POST['Average'] > 0 && $_POST['Average'] <= 300 )) else echo"<p>Thank you for registering! " ; //This displays if it makes it through everything } $errors = "<p>Click your browser''s back button to return to the Bowler Registration form and fix these errors. </p>"; //This displays on all errors ?> <?php if(isset($_POST['Name']) && is_numeric($_POST['Age']) && is_numeric($_POST['Average'])) { //to bring in the values of each items going into file $data = $_POST['Name'] . '-' . $_POST['Age'] . '-' . $_POST['Average'] . "\n"; //These end up in variable data $ret = file_put_contents(' /wamp64/www/bowlers.txt', $data, FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX); //The contents of data, go into bowlers.txt and the file is appended and locked if($ret == false) //if the return is false, then the file is not written to die('There was an error writing to file'); else echo "$ret written to file"; //Otherwise the file has been written to } ?>

ginerjm ~~ I do. Worst setup ever to try to figure something out. Barand ~~ Thanks. I will try that. From instructions: Validate the inputs that all three fields are required and the age must be a positive integer number, the average must be greater than 0 and less than 300.

<?php else if (!is_numeric($BowlerAverage >= 0 || $BowlerAverage <= 300)) ?> would this do the same thing?

Yes, the bowler average has to be between 0-300, but for each I have to put an error message if that part of the form isn't filled out. If I do it the way you show it, it won't differentiate the errors. "n" at the end of savestring is for new line, or should that be \n? Thanks for the help.

Sure. This is where I have gotten to. Just the PHP code. The form part is working fine. <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); //This is for error reporting ini_set('display_errors', 'On'); //because I want all errors to show if($_POST['formSubmit'] == 'Submit'){ //This grabs the information from the form $BowlerName = $_POST['Name']; //initializing the bowlers name variable $BowlerAge = $_POST['Age']; //initializing the bowlers age variable $BowlerAverage = $_POST['Average']; //initializing the bowlers average variable $errors = array(); //this is for error logging if ($BowlerName == ' ') { $errors[] = "You must enter your name ";} //this is so that if an error is if ($BowlerAge == ' ') { $errors[] = "You must enter your age ";} //submitted to any of these values, if ((is_numeric($BowlerAverage >= 0)) && //the user can fix them. This makes sure ($BowlerAverage <= 300)) { //the average is within the parameters of $retval = $BowlerAverage; // 0 and 300 } if($BowlerAverage == ' ') { $errors[] = "You must enter your average(enter 0 if you don't have one) " ;} $errors[] = "<p>Click your browser's back button to return to the Bowler Registration form and fix these errors. </p>"; //This error message will show up no matter what error shows } else echo “<p>Thank you for registering! </p>”; //When all fields are completed correctly $fp = fopen("$bowlers.txt", "a"); //This opens the file that will be written to $savestring = $BowlerName . "," . $BowlerAge . "," . $BowlerAverage . "n"; //with "a" for appending to the file fwrite($fp, $savestring); //savestring shows information is being saved and fclose($fp); //written to the file. Close file

ginerjm ~~ That is what I have for my code thus far, no it isn't everything that I need--I know that. And the problem with the professor is he is on a separate campus than I am, and the course is online, so that does not help. I have been asking for help from all the professors in the department, none know anything about PHP. So I am in need of help, thought I would come here, since you are all experienced at doing this. I really didn't come here to get ridiculed, I have read the book--repeatedly, but when I get to a certain point in my code I get stuck--with NO help. I posted some of the code so that I did so it didn't look like I wanted anyone to answer with the coding that I needed. Sorry for trying to get some help.

ginerjm ~~ 1. I said I am new to this. 2. No disrespect, but I am doing online schooling for this class and have little to no help from my professor. No, this is not my field of expertise, that is why I am here, to get some help. 3. Thanks for your unhelpful advice. mac_gyver ~~ Thank you. Laying it out in a format like that makes it more understandable to me. It helps knowing how it is supposed to be laid out for me. Again, thank you. For the record, it is two different codes. One for the form and one for the php coding. I have to turn BOTH of them in to my unhelpful professor.

This is my code so far, I am a beginner at PHP and my professor is very vague with help. I just want to know in what order in my code should be in when setting up code from a form to send to a text file and if I am doing this correctly. Thanks in advance for any help, I just want to be able to get through this stuff without being so overly confused I make it worse <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Register Bowler</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> </head> <body> <?php global $errorCount; if(!isset($_POST['Submit'])){ // $BowlerName = validateInput(addslashes($_POST['Name'])); $BowlerAge = validateInput(addslashes($_POST['Age'])); $BowlerAverage = validateInput(addslashes($_POST['Average'])); $NewBowler = "$BowlerName, $BowlerAge, $BowlerAverage\r\n"; $BowlersFile = "bowlers.txt"; if(is__numeric($BowlerAge)) { $BowlerAge = round($BowlerAge); } if(is_numeric($BowlerAverage)){ $BowlerAverage = round($BowlerAverage); if (($BowlerAverage >= 0) && ($BowlerAverage <= 300)) { $retval = $BowlerAverage; } } else echo "<p>You must enter your Name </p>". "<p>You must enter your age. </p>". "<p>You must enter your average(enter 0 if you don't have one)</p>" "<p>Click your browser's Back button to return to the Bowler Registration form and fix these errors. </p>"; </body> </html> And this is my form code <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Bowler Registration Form</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <style = "text/css"> #body label {padding-left:2px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 55px; display:block; } #body fieldset {padding-left: 20px; margin-left: 20px; } #body title { font-size: 200%; } h2 { position: absolute; left: 100px; } </style> </head> <body> <h2>Enter your information below to sign up for the tournament!</h2> <!-- This is the heading on the page --> <div id="body"> <!-- The body of this div is where my form will be placed at --> <fieldset> <form name="Bowler Registration" action="RegisterBowlerRusbuldt.php" method="POST"> <!-- This shows the form name, the php file it checks, and how it gets its information --> <label for="name"> Name : <input type="text" name="Name " id ="Name" size = "25" /></label> <!-- This is the input for the name of the bowler and the type of text it takes --> <label for="age"> Age : <input type="text" name="Age " id = "age" size = "25" /></label> <!-- This is for the age of the person signing up on the form --> <label for="average"> Average : <input type="text" name="Average " id ="average" size = "25"/></label> <!-- This is the bowling average of the person signing up on the form --> <br> <!-- I added the &nbsp to separate the labels from the boxes so they would line up better--> <br> <input type="submit" value ="Submit" /> <!-- This is for the submit button, what it is supposed to do when clicked --> </fieldset> </form> </div> <?php $BowlersList = readfile("bowlers.txt"); echo $BowlersList; ?> </body> </html>