PHP To Create A Dynamic Text Attachment

[Richard Price]

Hope someone can help. I am trying to write a php script that will create a
text file with dynamic fields in it,save the page and then mail it as an
attachment.

To be more precise I want the some users details input to the script (name,
email address etc. ) and then these variables to be inserted into a text
template
at various points and then then resulting text file to be saved on the
server and
then mailed as an attachment.

The problem I am having is creating the text document from the script and
saving it. Would I achive this using a template that is accessed using fopen
and then using fwrite to insert the variable data at the relevant points or
is there a different way?

Thanks in Advance,

Richard Price

[Tom Thackrey]

Re: PHP To Create A Dynamic Text Attachment



On 29-Sep-2003, "Richard Price" <rprice@directr oute.uk.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hope someone can help. I am trying to write a php script that will create
> a
> text file with dynamic fields in it,save the page and then mail it as an
> attachment.
>
> To be more precise I want the some users details input to the script
> (name,
> email address etc. ) and then these variables to be inserted into a text
> template
> at various points and then then resulting text file to be saved on the
> server and
> then mailed as an attachment.
>
> The problem I am having is creating the text document from the script and
> saving it. Would I achive this using a template that is accessed using
> fopen
> and then using fwrite to insert the variable data at the relevant points
> or
> is there a different way?[/color]

1) Create a template with tags for the data to be replaced. (e.g. Name:
<<name>>, Phone: <<phone>>)
2) Open the template and read it into a string with file_get_conten ts (or
fopen,fread)
3) Do a $fileString = str_replace('<< name>>',$user_n ame,$fileString ) for
each tag
4) Open the text file with fopen(..,'w') and use fwrite to write the updated
string.


--
Tom Thackrey

https://www.creative-light.com

[Richard Price]

Re: PHP To Create A Dynamic Text Attachment

"Tom Thackrey" <tomnr@creati ve-light.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> On 29-Sep-2003, "Richard Price" <rprice@directr oute.uk.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Hope someone can help. I am trying to write a php script that will[/color][/color]
create[color=blue][color=green]
> > a
> > text file with dynamic fields in it,save the page and then mail it as an
> > attachment.
> >
> > To be more precise I want the some users details input to the script
> > (name,
> > email address etc. ) and then these variables to be inserted into a text
> > template
> > at various points and then then resulting text file to be saved on the
> > server and
> > then mailed as an attachment.
> >
> > The problem I am having is creating the text document from the script[/color][/color]
and[color=blue][color=green]
> > saving it. Would I achive this using a template that is accessed using
> > fopen
> > and then using fwrite to insert the variable data at the relevant points
> > or
> > is there a different way?[/color]
>
> 1) Create a template with tags for the data to be replaced. (e.g. Name:
> <<name>>, Phone: <<phone>>)
> 2) Open the template and read it into a string with file_get_conten ts (or
> fopen,fread)
> 3) Do a $fileString = str_replace('<< name>>',$user_n ame,$fileString ) for
> each tag
> 4) Open the text file with fopen(..,'w') and use fwrite to write the[/color]
updated[color=blue]
> string.
>
>
> --
> Tom Thackrey
> www.creative-light.com[/color]


Worked Fantistically, Thanks.