pahunrepublic Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 I have an orderform.html where I enter the different quantities and a string. <html> <head> <title>Bob's Auto Parts</title> </head> <body> <h1>Bob's Auto Parts</h1> <h2>Order Form</h2> <form action="processorder.php" method="post"> <table border="0"> <tr bgcolor="#cccccc"> <td width="150">Item</td> <td width="15">Quantity</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Tires</td> <td align="left"><input type="text" name="tireqty" size="3" maxlength="3"/></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Oil</td> <td align="left"><input type="text" name="oilqty" size="3" maxlength="3"/></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Spark Plugs</td> <td align="left"><input type="text" name="sparkqty" size="3" maxlength="3"/></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Shipping Address</td> <td align="center"><input type="text" name="address" size="40" maxlength="40"/></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" value="Submit Order"/></td> </tr> </table> </form> </body> </html> The entries are processed by the above code processorder.php <?php // create short variable names $tireqty = $_POST['tireqty']; $oilqty = $_POST['oilqty']; $sparkqty = $_POST['sparkqty']; $address = $_POST['address']; $DOCUMENT_ROOT = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; $date = date('H:i, jS F Y'); echo "<p>Order processed at ".date('H:i, jS F Y')."</p>"; echo "<p>Your order is as follows: </p>"; $totalqty = 0; $totalqty = $tireqty + $oilqty + $sparkqty; echo "Items ordered: ".$totalqty."<br />"; if ($totalqty == 0) { echo "You did not order anything on the previous page!<br />"; } else { if ($tireqty > 0) { echo $tireqty." tires<br />"; } if ($oilqty > 0) { echo $oilqty." bottles of oil<br />"; } if ($sparkqty > 0) { echo $sparkqty." spark plugs<br />"; } } $totalamount = 0.00; define('TIREPRICE', 100); define('OILPRICE', 10); define('SPARKPRICE', 4); $totalamount = $tireqty * TIREPRICE + $oilqty * OILPRICE + $sparkqty * SPARKPRICE; $totalamount=number_format($totalamount, 2, '.', ' '); echo "<p>Total of order is $".$totalamount."</p>"; echo "<p>Address to ship to is ".$address."</p>"; $outputstring = $date."\t".$tireqty." tires \t".$oilqty." oil\t" .$sparkqty." spark plugs\t\$".$totalamount ."\t". $address."\n"; // open file for appending @ $fp = fopen("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/../orders/orders.txt", 'ab'); flock($fp, LOCK_EX); if (!$fp) { echo "<p><strong> Your order could not be processed at this time. Please try again later.</strong></p></body></html>"; exit; } fwrite($fp, $outputstring, strlen($outputstring)); flock($fp, LOCK_UN); fclose($fp); echo "<p>Order written.</p>"; ?> I have storing text problem. The processorder.php stores the $outspring result in orders.txt file. If it doesn't exist it creates it with the $outspring result the first time without a problem, but when I run the script again It supposed to add the new line of result below the latest result but it doesn't. The content of orders.txt file should be several lines with the results of every time I run the script. It just keeps the first result and only got one line no matter how many times I run the script. I should have the content similar to this: 20:30, 31st March 2008 4 tires 1 oil 6 spark plugs $434.00 22 Short St,Smalltown 20:42, 31st March 2008 1 tires 0 oil 0 spark plugs $100.00 33 Main Rd,Newtown 20:43, 31st March 2008 0 tires 1 oil 4 spark plugs $26.00 127 Acacia St,Springfield instead I got only one line: 20:30, 31st March 2008 4 tires 1 oil 6 spark plugs $434.00 22 Short St,Smalltown What is the problem here? Anyone knows? I suspect fwrite() function. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205664-storing-strings-in-txt-file/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwolgamott Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 run it but put an echo in front of the fwrite and see what results you get... To see if it's actually attempting to write. I think maybe your lock is messing with it. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205664-storing-strings-in-txt-file/#findComment-1076238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joePHP Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 Hi, I ran your code and it's working by me: 15:37, 23rd June 2010 1 tires 2 oil 3 spark plugs $132.00 123 lal 15:37, 23rd June 2010 1 tires 2 oil 3 spark plugs $132.00 456 lal 15:40, 23rd June 2010 1 tires 2 oil 3 spark plugs $132.00 789 lal 15:42, 23rd June 2010 1 tires 2 oil 3 spark plugs $132.00 321 lal Maybe you have orders.txt open? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205664-storing-strings-in-txt-file/#findComment-1076243 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pahunrepublic Posted June 24, 2010 Author Share Posted June 24, 2010 run it but put an echo in front of the fwrite and see what results you get... To see if it's actually attempting to write. I think maybe your lock is messing with it. What do you mean exactly? in detail. Like this: echo fwrite($fp, $outputstring, strlen($outputstring)); Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205664-storing-strings-in-txt-file/#findComment-1076402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pahunrepublic Posted June 24, 2010 Author Share Posted June 24, 2010 Hi, I ran your code and it's working by me: 15:37, 23rd June 2010 1 tires 2 oil 3 spark plugs $132.00 123 lal 15:37, 23rd June 2010 1 tires 2 oil 3 spark plugs $132.00 456 lal 15:40, 23rd June 2010 1 tires 2 oil 3 spark plugs $132.00 789 lal 15:42, 23rd June 2010 1 tires 2 oil 3 spark plugs $132.00 321 lal Maybe you have orders.txt open? I don't have it open. I have a question for you. On what operating system do you run it? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205664-storing-strings-in-txt-file/#findComment-1076409 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwolgamott Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 run it but put an echo in front of the fwrite and see what results you get... To see if it's actually attempting to write. I think maybe your lock is messing with it. What do you mean exactly? in detail. Like this: echo fwrite($fp, $outputstring, strlen($outputstring)); Yeah something like that. If it's running should spit out number of bytes it wrote. But nevermind it's not writing so won't get there... try for S&G's writing to file without a lock and see if the lock is hanging it up after initial write. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205664-storing-strings-in-txt-file/#findComment-1076577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwolgamott Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 I only ask about lock is that sometimes on different OS it does some funky things. There are work arounds but I don't remember. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205664-storing-strings-in-txt-file/#findComment-1076753 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pahunrepublic Posted June 28, 2010 Author Share Posted June 28, 2010 Ok Guys! here is the interesting stuff. After a couple of days I ran the script again and it works, I CHANGED @ $fp = fopen("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/../orders/orders.txt", 'rb'); . ...'rb' IT WORKS BUT with the only difference that the content in *.txt file is stored one after other in one long line. I mean not in rows. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205664-storing-strings-in-txt-file/#findComment-1078313 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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