[SOLVED] Editting a txt file on my server...

[Drags111]

Ok heres what up:

 

I have a login form with username and password (html of course).

 

When you hit submit, I want the php script i have to make a log of that login.

 

Heres what I got for the html part:

 

<form action="login.php" method="post">
Username: <input type="text" name="usr" />
Password: <input type="password" name="pass" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>

 

I want the php's name to be login.php, and the text file's name is loginlog.txt

 

Thanks!

[Drags111]

Also i want the log txt to look like this:

 

----------------------------------
Username: JohnDoe
Password: DoeJohn

----------------------------------
Username: JohnDoe
Password: DoeJohn

----------------------------------
Username: JohnDoe
Password: DoeJohn

----------------------------------
Username: JohnDoe
Password: DoeJohn

----------------------------------
Username: JohnDoe
Password: DoeJohn

----------------------------------
Username: JohnDoe
Password: DoeJohn

 

and so on

[farkewie]

What have you tried?

 

i recommend using MYSQL.

 

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials.php

[kratsg]

This is actually a very simple piece of code :-o I'll show you how to use it for appending (check it out online to see how it works).

 

<?php

$file = "url_to_text_file.txt";
$data = null;//clear off $data just in case it was cached somehow...
if(!is_writable($filename)) {//determine if we can write to the file first, we can't so let's die
die("I'm sorry, we encountered an internal error. Please contact the administrator about this problem.");
}

if(!$file = fopen($file,"a")){//open the file, check to see if we can or cannot
die("I'm sorry, the file cannot be opened. Please contact the administrator about this problem.");

//next, define what is to be added to the text file
//format of
//username
//password
//timestamp of log in (for other purposes)
//-------------------- (20 times)

$data .= $username."\n";
$data .= $password."\n";
$data .= time()."\n";
$data .= "----------------------------------------"."\n";

if(!fwrite($file,$data)){//we couldn't write to the file
die("I'm sorry, we could not write the data to the file. Please contact the administrator about this problem.");
}

echo "Success. You have written <textarea style='width:100%;height:100px;'>$data</textarea> into the file $filename.";

?>

 

This may look like a lot, but there's a lot of error catching and handling in here, it's better to be safe than sorry.

[Drags111]

wow thanks a TON for this krat! Ima test it now!

[Drags111]

hmm i get an error when i login:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/zendurl/public_html/d/drags111/loginscript.php on line 30

[teng84]

if you use @kratsg code you missed } after this line

die("I'm sorry, the file cannot be opened. Please contact the administrator about this problem.");

[kratsg]

I'm sorry, I missed one character o_o Nobody's perfect xD But Teng's right o_o I saw that myself, then refreshed and saw his post :-o

[Drags111]

ok so where do i put it in?

[Drags111]

nvm i see it

[teng84]

note: dont forget marking all your thread as solved,  if it is

[Drags111]

unfortunately, its not. The script runs fine, but even after i changed the perms on the txt file to 777, it still says it can not write to the file. What do I do?

[Drags111]

Man ive tried everything... Anyone have suggestions?

[kratsg]

Oh, silly me, fwrite returns number of bytes, so I gotta fix it :-P This should work.

 

<?php

 

$file = "url_to_text_file.txt";

$data = null;//clear off $data just in case it was cached somehow...

if(!is_writable($filename)) {//determine if we can write to the file first, we can't so let's die

die("I'm sorry, we encountered an internal error. Please contact the administrator about this problem.");

}

 

if(!$file = fopen($file,"a")){//open the file, check to see if we can or cannot

die("I'm sorry, the file cannot be opened. Please contact the administrator about this problem.");

}

 

$data .= $username."\n";

$data .= $password."\n";

$data .= time()."\n";

$data .= "----------------------------------------"."\n";

 

if(fwrite($file,$data) === false){//we couldn't write to the file

die("I'm sorry, we could not write the data to the file. Please contact the administrator about this problem.");

}

 

echo "Success. You have written <textarea style='width:100%;height:100px;'>$data</textarea> into the file $filename.";

 

fclose($file);

 

?>

[Drags111]

omg i still get the internal error from it, which means it cant write to the file. But thats weird because the permissions on that file are 777...

[Coreye]

Shouldn't

if(!is_writable($filename))

be

if(!is_writable($file))

?

 

<?php

$file = "file.txt";
$data = null;//clear off $data just in case it was cached somehow...
if(!is_writable($file)) {//determine if we can write to the file first, we can't so let's die
die("I'm sorry, we encountered an internal error. Please contact the administrator about this problem.");
}

if(!$file = fopen($file,"a")){//open the file, check to see if we can or cannot
die("I'm sorry, the file cannot be opened. Please contact the administrator about this problem.");
}

$data .= $username."\n";
$data .= $password."\n";
$data .= time()."\n";
$data .= "----------------------------------------"."\n";

if(fwrite($file,$data) === false){//we couldn't write to the file
die("I'm sorry, we could not write the data to the file. Please contact the administrator about this problem.");
}

echo "Success. You have written <textarea style='width:100%;height:100px;'>$data</textarea> into the file $filename.";

fclose($file);

?>

[Drags111]

nice catch there! Ill try it out

[Drags111]

wow its still not working. I think it might be my hosting... anyone know a good free hosting i could use?

[Coreye]

Are you sure you made the text file a text document and not a HTML document?

[Drags111]

its a text doc. This is getting annoying

[Coreye]

What's your site link and the txt file link? See if this works;

 

<?php
$file = "test.txt";
$data = null;//clear off $data just in case it was cached somehow...
if(!$file = fopen($file,"a"))
{//open the file, check to see if we can or cannot
die("I'm sorry, the file cannot be opened. Please contact the administrator about this problem.");
}
$data .= $username."\n";
$data .= $password."\n";
$data .= time()."\n";
$data .= "----------------------------------------"."\n";

if(fwrite($file,$data) === false)
{//we couldn't write to the file
die("I'm sorry, we could not write the data to the file. Please contact the administrator about this problem.");
}
echo "Success. You have written <textarea style='width:100%;height:100px;'>$data</textarea> into the file $filename.";

fclose($file);

?>

[Drags111]

http://gma.freehostia.com/login.html

http://gma.freehostia.com/loginscript.php

http://gma.freehostia.com/loginlogs.txt

[Drags111]

Ok I tested your code, and It almost works. It says that i wrote 34556347 to the file, when in fact i did not even put that in. Then i went to check the http://gma.freehostia.com/loginlogs.txt and nothing was there. But then I went to the file manager and looked at the code and it said it was there. Anyway the point is, it posted the way wrong thing.

[Drags111]

alright i ALMOST fixed the problem..

Drags111

test

1194707356

----------------------------------------

 

the numbers were the timestamp. but that doesnt look like its uh.... right. lol so anyway. we ALMOST got it down.

 

The other thing is that the text doesnt appear when u go to the link, but it does in the file manager.

[Coreye]

When I go to; http://gma.freehostia.com/loginlogs.txt, I see the information you entered.