io - Writing to Text files via php
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I have a little issue while trying to kill time. I am writint to a text file the contents of the filled in form so it is easy to read. At the moment everything gets put int a single line, and therfore I can not tell where msgs begin or end. I wrote a php like this:
$from = $_POST[from];
$friend = $_POST[friend];
$carrier = $_POST[carrier];
$message = stripslashes($_POST[message]);
if ((empty($from)) || (empty($friend)) || (empty($message))) {
header ("Location: sms_error.php");
}
else if ($carrier == "orange_mobile_network") {
$formatted_number = $friend."@orange_mobile_network.co.uk";
mail("$formatted_number", "SMS", "$message");
header ("Location: sms_success.php");
}
Then the SMS/Text message will be sent. After this I wanted to write/store/append the message on a txt file. So I wrote:
$myFile = "sms_Numbers_Mgs.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a+') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = $_POST[from];
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = $_POST[friend];
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = $_POST[message];
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
But like I said. Everything works. I just want to be able to read the file and put everything in a new line and possibly format it nicely for easy reading. I do not want to use a DB for storing the TXT as my host is going to charge me.
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Solution:
change this:
with this:
or:
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Solution:
You can append
PHP_EOLwhen you write for a platform aware newline. I.e.$stringData = <string> . PHP_EOL;If don't need it to be platform aware, going with the windows newline is a safe option.
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Solution:
I do not know exactly Cause you're using. txt instead of a bank, but my tip for this specific case is to work with json format.
Example:
good it is at least better organized.
a hug!