please help - simple php code

[jrjackson]

I'm using some code from Robert Planks php tutorials. But I'm having a hard time getting them to work together:

 

I have a page called 'career.php' and it has this code at the top of the page:

 

<?php
$f = $_GET["f"];
if ($f) {
setcookie("f", "", time()-3600);
setcookie("f", $f, time()+3600*24*30);
}
else $f = $_COOKIE["f"];
if (!$f) $f = "Friend";
?>

 

If I put

<?php echo $f; ?>

in the career.php page and if I go to http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/career.php?f=Fred it writes their name in the page. So this part is working fine.

 

2nd PHP file I created is called "now-hiring.php" and I placed the following code in the php file:

 

<?php
// URL to redirect to
$url = "http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/career.php";
if (isset($_GET["firstname"])) {
   $user = $_GET["firstname"] . "," . $_GET["state"] . "," . $_GET["email"];
// Filename to store the list of viewers
$filename = "viewers.txt";
// Try to write to it
@touch($filename);
if (!is_writable($filename)) {
die("Cannot write to $filename... please chmod it to 666.");
}
// Read the viewers file
$viewers = array_map("trim", file($filename));
// Add this person to the list of viewers
$viewers[] = $user;
// Remove duplicates
$viewers = array_unique($viewers);
// Write back to the text file
$fp = fopen($filename, "w");
fwrite($fp, implode("\n", $viewers));
fclose($fp);
}
// Redirect to the URL
header("Location:$url"); die();
?>

 

The above php file simply writes the data; firstname, state and email to a text file named 'viewers.txt' - this is helpful in seeing who has opened my emails.

 

My email program uses the following format for customizing outgoing emails:

 

(!*FIRSTNAME*!)

(!*STATE*!)

(!*EMAIL*!)

 

I'm trying to figure out what URL code I should be using in my email program. I have their data; firstname, state and email already.

 

Here is what I thought the URL would look like that I email to people:

 

http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/page.php?firstname={!firstname}&state={!state}&email={!email}

 

The end result of all this code is to:

 

1] write the; firstname, state and email to the text file viewers.txt so I know has opened my emails.

 

2] echo their; firstname and state on my php page making the page seem customized for them.

 

I hope this all makes sense to someone and that someone can help me.

 

J.R.

[jrjackson]

I only posted this a few minutes ago but I notice newer post have already received responses. Maybe what I need is more complex. Where can I go to get help with this?

 

Thanks

 

J.R.

[kenrbnsn]

Give us time to look at it. 

 

Don't bump so quickly. Other problems may get answers quicker because the answers just jump out...

 

Ken