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  • Andy T
    #1

    basic tutorial

    hi

    I am after a basic tutorial that uses PHP to create a web page from a
    text file.

    All i can find it PHP tuorials that include MySql and I dont need that
    just yet. I am in urgent need of sorting this quickly and more
    learning can come later.

    I do have a script http://www.8thrallycross.co.uk/bnb/bnbform.html

    that takes all the info for booking in and places it in a text file
    (simulated) at http://www.8thrallycross.co.uk/onlinebooking2.shtml

    and what I need to do is get the required info across to a web page
    similar to this.

    http://www.8thrallycross.co.uk/onlinebooking.shtml


    Any help and advice appreciated
    Regards Andy T



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    • CJ Llewellyn
      #2
      Re: basic tutorial

      "Andy T" <andy@westmidla nd-internet.co.uk> wrote in message
      news:7lutu09k78 96tglqk4r87baq3 k6fctmavq@4ax.c om...[color=blue]
      > hi
      >
      > I am after a basic tutorial that uses PHP to create a web page from a
      > text file.
      >
      > All i can find it PHP tuorials that include MySql and I dont need that
      > just yet. I am in urgent need of sorting this quickly and more
      > learning can come later.
      >
      > I do have a script http://www.8thrallycross.co.uk/bnb/bnbform.html
      >
      > that takes all the info for booking in and places it in a text file
      > (simulated) at http://www.8thrallycross.co.uk/onlinebooking2.shtml
      >
      > and what I need to do is get the required info across to a web page
      > similar to this.
      >
      > http://www.8thrallycross.co.uk/onlinebooking.shtml[/color]

      <html>
      <body>
      <p align="right">
      <?=readfile('so mecontent.txt') ;?>
      </p>
      </body>


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        • Richards Noah \(IFR LIT MET\)
          #3
          Re: basic tutorial


          "CJ Llewellyn" <invalid@exampl e.con> wrote in message
          news:csnqk8$lvq $1@slavica.ukpo st.com...[color=blue]
          > "Andy T" <andy@westmidla nd-internet.co.uk> wrote in message
          > news:7lutu09k78 96tglqk4r87baq3 k6fctmavq@4ax.c om...[color=green]
          > > hi
          > >
          > > I am after a basic tutorial that uses PHP to create a web page from a
          > > text file.
          > >
          > > All i can find it PHP tuorials that include MySql and I dont need that
          > > just yet. I am in urgent need of sorting this quickly and more
          > > learning can come later.
          > >
          > > I do have a script http://www.8thrallycross.co.uk/bnb/bnbform.html
          > >
          > > that takes all the info for booking in and places it in a text file
          > > (simulated) at http://www.8thrallycross.co.uk/onlinebooking2.shtml
          > >
          > > and what I need to do is get the required info across to a web page
          > > similar to this.
          > >
          > > http://www.8thrallycross.co.uk/onlinebooking.shtml[/color]
          >
          > <html>
          > <body>
          > <p align="right">
          > <?=readfile('so mecontent.txt') ;?>
          > </p>
          > </body>
          >
          >[/color]

          The line that contains "<?=" may not work, depending on your PHP
          configuration (whether or not you have short tags enabled, and I believe
          they are disabled by default). If this is the case, replace it with:

          <?php echo readfile('somec ontent.txt'); ?>

          But I'm not sure that the OP was really looking for that. Just printing the
          text file verbatim isn't going to look very pretty.

          Your method of storage is rather ugly, and sorting that out would be even
          uglier. There is a reason most people use MySQL: it is easy and effective
          for things like this. It would be worth your time to read at least one of
          those MySQL tutorials that you mention. In my opinion, it will take longer
          to learn how to solve the current problem you have (how to parse a file that
          has been stored with no meaningful format) than it will to install MySQL,
          learn the 4 or 5 functions you need, and use them instead.

          -Noah


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            • Daniel Tryba
              #4
              Re: basic tutorial

              "Richards Noah \(IFR LIT MET\)" <Noah.Richards@ infineon.com> wrote:[color=blue]
              >
              > <?php echo readfile('somec ontent.txt'); ?>
              >[/color]

              This will also print the filesize of the file, lose the echo :)

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