bambinou1980 Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Hello, I am having a little problem and do not know where to start. I have a printer that requires the following type of data to be written to a txt file: # Delivery;13:30;18-08-15;* //Date of the order 121345* //Order number 2;Chicken Tikka Massala;13.90;* //Food item 5.00* //Delivery Fees 18.90* //Total Price Freddy Crugger;Street 154 beach house palier, town1;555444;Hi, Could you please call me when you are near the phone box after frankie's club;*//Customer Address 7;Cash on Delivery; //Type of delivery & Payment type # As you can see, each variable is delimited by an asterix *. The whole order is delimited by # The ; means that this fits on one line. Now here is my problem. Let's say I have this: $date_of_the_order $order_number $food_item $delivery_fees $total_price $customer_address $type-of-delivery $payment_type I have already the form, the form data from my $_POST is going into those variables, how can I add my variables in a way that it always creates the output in my txt file as: # Delivery;13:30;18-08-15;* //Date of the order 121345* //Order number 2;Chicken Tikka Massala;13.90;* //Food item 5.00* //Delivery Fees 18.90* //Total Price Freddy Crugger;Street 154 beach house palier, town1;555444;Hi, Could you please call me when you are near the phone box after frankie's club;*//Customer Address 7;Cash on Delivery; //Type of delivery & Payment type # Could you please give me a quick example? I looked for this: <?php $content = "foo"; file_put_contents("text_file.txt", $ip, FILE_APPEND); ?> Would the above function works, if yes, how to add multiple variables to it? Thank you so much! Ben Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/298248-appending-variables-to-txt-file/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ch0cu3r Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Can you show use what your form data looks like. Do a var_dump($_POST); Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/298248-appending-variables-to-txt-file/#findComment-1521253 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bambinou1980 Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 Hi, I am adding the whole code, I have not yet added any validations...but I cannot get anything passed in the var_dump, I must have a tiny error somewhere but cannot work it out.. At the moment I am just trying to get a print test of the printer, this is why I added some values manually to some of the variables. <?phpif(isset($_POST['submit'])){ $product1 = $_POST['product1']; //$product2 = $_POST['product2']; //$product3 = $_POST['product3']; //$product4 = $_POST['product4']; $quantity1 = $_POST['quantity1']; // $quantity2 = $_POST['quantity2']; // $quantity3 = $_POST['quantity3']; // $quantity4 = $_POST['quantity4']; $price1 = $_POST['price1']; //$price2 = $_POST['price2']; //$price3 = $_POST['price3']; // $price4 = $_POST['price4']; /*# Delivery;13:30;18-08-15;* //Date of the order 121345* //Order number 2;Chicken Tikka Massala;13.90;* //Food item 5.00* //Delivery Fees 18.90* //Total Price Freddy Crugger;Street 154 beach house palier, town1;555444;Hi, Could you please call me when you are near the phone box after frankie's club; //Customer Address 7;Cash on Delivery; //Type of delivery & Payment type # */ $item1 = $quantity1 . ";" . $product1 . ";" . $price1 . ";";//$item2 = $quantity2 . ";" . $product2 . ";" . $price2 . ";";//$item3 = $quantity3 . ";" . $product3 . ";" . $price3 . ";";//$item4 = $quantity4 . ";" . $product4 . ";" . $price4 . ";"; $start_of_order = "#";$type_of_order = "Delivery";$time = "13:30;";$date = "18-08-15;";$order_number = "121345*";$total_price = "18.90*";$delivery_fees = "5.00*";$Customer_surname = "Freddy;";$Customer_name = "Crugger;";$customer_address = "Street 154 beach house palier, town1;";$customer_phone = "88585898;";$comments = "Hi, Could you please call me when you are near the phone box after frankie's club;";$type_of_delivery = "7"; //Order not Paid. Use 6 for Paid$payment_type = "Cash on Delivery";$end_of_order = "#"; file_put_contents("order_test.txt", $start_of_order .$type_of_order .$time .$date .$order_number .$item1 .$total_price .$delivery_fees .$Customer_surname .$Customer_name .$customer_address .$customer_phone .$comments .$type_of_delivery .$payment_type .$end_of_order . "", FILE_APPEND); var_dump($_POST);} ?><!DOCTYPE HTML><html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html" /><meta name="author" content="lolkittens" /><!-- Latest compiled and minified CSS --><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css" /> <!-- Optional theme --><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css" /> <!-- Latest compiled and minified JavaScript --><script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script><title>Test Form</title></head> <body><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="row"><div class="col-md-2"></div> <div class="col-md-8"><form action="test.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain"> <div class="input-group"> <span class="input-group-addon" id="basic-addon1">Product 1</span> <input type="text" class="form-control" value="Tal Fenek Pizza" name="product1"/> <span class="input-group-addon" id="basic-addon1">Quantity 1</span> <input type="text" class="form-control" value="2" name="quantity1"/> <span class="input-group-addon" id="basic-addon1">Price 1</span> <input type="text" class="form-control" value="25.60" name="price1" /></div> <br /> <div class="input-group"> <span class="input-group-addon" id="basic-addon1">Product 2</span> <input type="text" class="form-control" value="Cappriciosa Pizza" name="product2"/> <span class="input-group-addon" id="basic-addon1">Quantity 2</span> <input type="text" class="form-control" value="3" name="quantity2"/> <span class="input-group-addon" id="basic-addon1">Price 2</span> <input type="text" class="form-control" value="35.60" name="price2" /></div> <br /><div class="input-group"> <span class="input-group-addon" id="basic-addon1">Product 3</span> <input type="text" class="form-control" value="Quatro Formaggi Pizza" name="product3"/> <span class="input-group-addon" id="basic-addon1">Quantity 3</span> <input type="text" class="form-control" value="5" name="quantity3"/> <span class="input-group-addon" id="basic-addon1">Price 3</span> <input type="text" class="form-control" value="45.60" name="price3" /></div> <br /> <div class="input-group"> <span class="input-group-addon" id="basic-addon1">Product 4</span> <input type="text" class="form-control" value="Chicken Tikka Massala" name="product4"/> <span class="input-group-addon" id="basic-addon1">Quantity 4</span> <input type="text" class="form-control" value="6" name="quantity4"/> <span class="input-group-addon" id="basic-addon1">Price 4</span> <input type="text" class="form-control" value="65.60" name="price4" /></div><br /><input type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-block" /> </form></div><div class="col-md-2"></div></div> </body></html> Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/298248-appending-variables-to-txt-file/#findComment-1521272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberRobot Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Try removing the "enctype" attribute from the open form tag. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/298248-appending-variables-to-txt-file/#findComment-1521281 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bambinou1980 Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 Yes thanks I tried that already but it did not work. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/298248-appending-variables-to-txt-file/#findComment-1521283 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bambinou1980 Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 Actually you are right, I just had to empty my cache for it to work. thank you. One quick question please, if the , FILE_APPEND function right because it is not creating any files on the server. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/298248-appending-variables-to-txt-file/#findComment-1521285 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberRobot Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Is PHP set to show all errors and warnings? To make sure, you can add the following to the top of your script during the debugging process: <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', 1); ?> Also note that file_put_contents() "returns the number of bytes that were written to the file, or FALSE on failure." Have you checked to see what the function returns? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/298248-appending-variables-to-txt-file/#findComment-1521289 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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