Appending variables to txt file

[bambinou1980]

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

 

 

 

 

[Ch0cu3r]

Can you show use what your form data looks like. Do a  var_dump($_POST);

[bambinou1980]

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>

[cyberRobot]

Try removing the "enctype" attribute from the open form tag.

[bambinou1980]

Yes thanks I tried that already but it did not work.

[bambinou1980]

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.

[cyberRobot]

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?