fantasticham Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Got a couple codes that aren't working. I'm trying to get it so that there's a form on a page for commenting, you type it and it is displayed below the form on the same page. Here they are. POSTFORM.PHP <html> <head> </head> <body> <form action="postcomment.php" method="post"> <table width="409"> <tr><td width="73">Name:</td> <td width="324"><input name="name" type="text" size="54"></td></tr> <tr><td height="58" valign="top">Comment:</td> <td><textarea name="message" cols="51" rows="6"></textarea></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><input type="submit" value="Submit" style="width:400px;"></td></tr> </table> </form> </body> </html> POSTCOMMENT.PHP <html> <head> </head> <body> <?php $name = $_POST['name']; $message = $_POST['message'] $fp = fopen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] ."/comments.php", 'a'); if (!$fp) { echo "There was an error! Try again later!"; exit; } else { $outputstring = "<br>Name: " .$name "<br>" .$message. "<br>"; fwrite($fp, $outputstring, strlen($outputstring)); fclose($fp); echo "Your post was posted successfully. Click <a href="javascript:history.go(-1);">here</a> to continue."; } ?> </body> </html> I get errors with postcomment.php, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Here's the link: http://alexisarts.net/postform.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sasa Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 add ; to the end of line 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticham Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 add ; to the end of line 8 I'm still getting this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/fhlinux131/a/alexisarts.net/user/htdocs/postcomment.php on line 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonsjava Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Funny thing: I wanted to add a comment system to my site a week back (I hate moderating trolls, so I hadn't bothered before). Right as I was writing the code to handle the comment system, I ran across this. If you want to see an example of how it works, you can click at the link at the bottom of my signature, and click on any post there. It's free, and I didn't have to reinvent the wheel. Oh, and the bar at the bottom of my page is something else, unrelated. You don't get that bar with the comment system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 echo "Your post was posted successfully. Click <a href="javascript:history.go(-1);">here</a> to continue."; Does this look right to you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonsjava Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Nope. echo "Your post was posted successfully. Click <a href=\"javascript:history.go(-1);\">here</a> to continue."; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticham Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 I replaced that with "javascript:history.back()" earlier. That isn't what's causing the error, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 This line is: $outputstring = "<br>Name: " .$name "<br>" .$message. "<br>"; Spot the missing dot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 This line is: $outputstring = " Name: " .$name " " .$message. " "; Spot the missing dot Or spot the extra dots and quotes. $outputstring = " Name: $name $message "; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Whichever suits you best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticham Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 Cheers for the help. Thanks for continuously pointing out how shit I am at this language. Now there's an error with line 20: "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/fhlinux131/a/alexisarts.net/user/htdocs/postcomment.php on line 20" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Which line is line 20? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticham Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 echo "Your comment was posted successfully. Click <a href="javascript:history.back();">here</a> to continue."; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 jonsjava has already fixed it for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticham Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 so he did, sorry. aah, fuck, now the comments aren't appearing. http://alexisarts.net/postform.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Why would they? There's no code that would display them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticham Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 I'm really not sure how to go about writing that. I'm new to this and must be really annoying but I'm not sure how to connect all this stuff up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaboom Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 echo "Your comment was posted successfully. Click <a href="javascript:history.back();">here</a> to continue."; I see the problem here Do this instead echo "Your comment was posted successfully. Click <a href='javascript:history.back();'>here</a> to continue."; DO ' instead of " in the urls inside the echo because its trying to close it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Yes. That is an alternative solution to the one posted above Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticham Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 Thanks, I got all that working, it's just figuring out how to display the comments now. How would I start? D: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesta707 Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Well if you are writing to a file to save the comments, logic would dictate that you need to read the file to get the comments. Perhaps look into fread() or file_get_contents(), or perhaps feof() if you want to read the file line by line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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