martinstan Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 HiI'm pretty new to PHP but beginning to get the bug. I've been having a play with the $_POST global and have created a very simple form that uses this method. It would be a very simple solution to a small project I'm working on, however it is flawed. Here is the basic form:http://www.six22.co.uk/pricelist/pricelist.htmNow if you fill in the fields then submit, they update another PHP page: prices.php. Pretty cool.What I want to do is take this a stage further. Is it possible to save these fields to another file in order to manage a simple pricelist online?I know this is easy to remedy using a database but is it possible using a flat-file or some other method without having to use a database.I'd be really interested in anyones advice, thoughts or solutions.ThanksMartin Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31473-flat-file-php-form-question/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 You can write to a file using a combination of [url=http://php.net/fopen]fopen[/url] and [url=http://php.net/fwrite]fwrite[/url]. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31473-flat-file-php-form-question/#findComment-145802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinstan Posted December 22, 2006 Author Share Posted December 22, 2006 By the way Merry Christmas ;DOk Thorpe, you sent me off with some good info there and I've managed to put together (using various tutorials) quite a good little flat file database. This has now raised a few more questions from me and I'm hoping for some equally good leads.Here is my basic list:http://www.six22.co.uk/flatfileform/pricelist.phpBy the way...this is the sort of stuff my wife does, not me ::)The list works great but there are again some obvious constraints. Here is a list of things I'd like to be able to do to this. For instance: [list][*]None of this list is editable without physically altering the flat-file. Is this possible to create an edit page.[*]Again there is no way to add another item, for instance 'back, sack and crack :o' to the waxing category. Any thin added by my form just gets added to the end.[*]Also by pure luck, not design, the underlining in each section is caused by the fact that there is no heading text, so it's just a 1px line of background. Not good. It would be nice to give each category it's own heading.[/list]I'm not even sure that this kind of stuff is possible with such a simple db but it would be pretty cool if it was. I'd be grateful for any suggestion for my little project.ThanksMartinHere is all the code:The form:(info.php)[code] </head><body><DIV align="center" style=" margin-top:30px; "><form action="sendinfo.php" method="get"> <p class="tdcontent">Heading:<br /> <input name="heading" type="text" size="40"> <br/><br/>Treatment:<br /> <input name="treatment" type="text" size="40"> <br /><br/> Price:<br /><input name="price" type="text" value="£" size="15"><br /><br/><input type="submit" value="update"><input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Reset"></p></form></DIV></body></html>[/code]the send file:(sendinfo.php)[code]<body><?php$heading = $_GET["heading"];$treatment = $_GET["treatment"];$price = $_GET["price"];print("<b>Thank You!</b><br />Your information has been added! You can see it by <a href=pricelist.php>Clicking Here</a>");$out = fopen("savedinfo.txt", "a");if (!$out) {print("Could not append to file");exit;}fputs ($out,implode,("\n"));fwrite($out, $heading . "||". $treatment ."||" . $price ."\n");fclose($out);?></body></html>[/code]the list: (pricelist.php)[code]<link href="pricelist.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"><? $addlink = '<a href = "info.php">Add another treatment</a>'; $userinfo = file("savedinfo.txt"); echo '<table class="tablestyle" width = 400px>';foreach ($userinfo as $key => $val) { $data[$key] = explode ("||", $val);}for ($k = 0; $k< sizeof ($userinfo); $k++) { echo '<tr><td class = "tdheader" colspan =2>' . $data[$k][0]. '</td></tr>'; //this is the header echo '<tr><td class = "tdcontent">' . $data[$k][1]. '</td><td class = "tdcontent">' . $data[$k][2]. '</td></tr>'; //this is the data} echo '</table>'; echo '<br/>'; echo $addlink;?>[/code] Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31473-flat-file-php-form-question/#findComment-146484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinstan Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share Posted December 23, 2006 Hisorry to bump this but I thought the subject may have been misleading.Martin Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31473-flat-file-php-form-question/#findComment-146836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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