Load text files as variables

Can anyone help me to load a text file, and turn it into a variable? Any help appreciated, thanks in advance.

Working With Text Files in PHP by Mitchell Harper

Thanks. But using that code I ended up getting a few errors. I think it partially worked, but there must be something wrong that I've done. Would appreciate it if someone could have a look at the errors that come up on http://dump.hollosite.com/blog/postsave.php
and could check the code pasted here:

<?php
echo header( 'location:index.php' );
$fp = fopen("admin/gmttime.txt", "r");
$gmttime = fread($fp, filesize($fp));
$fp = fopen("admin/yourname.txt", "r");
$yourname = fread($fp, filesize($fp));
$fp = fopen("admin/timezone.txt", "r");
$timezone = fread($fp, filesize($fp));
$hourdiff = $gmttime + 10;
$timeadjust = ($hourdiff * 60 * 60);
$time = date("g:i a",time() + $timeadjust);
$title = date("GidMy",time() + $timeadjust);
$Date = '<div id="pagetitle">'.date("l, d F Y",time() + $timeadjust).'</div>';
$From = "Posted by ".$yourname." at ".$time." ".$timezone.".";
$Post = $_POST["post"];
$AddComment = '<a href="index.php?post='.$title.'">Add a comment!</a>';
$fn = fopen($title.".txt", "x") or die("Please don't post twice in the same minute.");
fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . '<br />');
fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . '<br />');
fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . $Date);
fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . '<br />');
fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . $Post);
fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . '<br />');
fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . $From);
fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . '<br />');
fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . $AddComment);
fclose($fn);
$fp = fopen("archive.txt", "a") or die("Error creating/writing to new file.");
fwrite($fp, "\r\n" . '<?php Include("'.$title.'.txt"); ?>');
fclose($fp);
$fp = fopen("admin/archive.txt", "a") or die("Error creating/writing to new file.");
fwrite($fp, "\r\n" . '<a href="index.php?post='.$title.'">Edit '.$title.' post</a>');
fclose($fp);

?>

Thanks again.

What exactly are the errors you get?

Sorry have fixed that particular problem now. I am now wondering how to use stripslashes correctly. When I try to use them, Nothing happens, its as if they're not even part of the code. Thanks for the help.

Stripslashes simply takes the slash away when its used to escape a character.

From the documentation


How are you trying to use it?

Probably in a way in which it won't work :P

$fn = fopen("../archive/".$title.".txt", "x") or die("Please don't post twice in the same minute.");
stripslashes( fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . '<br />'));
stripslashes( fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . '<br />'));
stripslashes( fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . $Date));
stripslashes( fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . '<br />'));
stripslashes( fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . $Post));
stripslashes( fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . '<br />'));
stripslashes( fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . $From));
stripslashes( fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . '<br />'));
stripslashes( fwrite($fn, "\r\n" . $AddComment));
fclose($fn);

You're trying to write to the comment to a file?

You might want to try:


I question your message "Please don't post twice in the same minute."
There might be other reasons the file doesn't open...

That works great.

I hate to bother you again, though. I want to be able to read a file line by line, making each line part of an array, then use array_reverse to flip it around.

I'm getting an error saying:

Warning: main(Array): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/www/dump.hollosite.com/blog/files/main.txt on line 25

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'Array' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/www/dump.hollosite.com/blog/files/main.txt on line 25




When using this code:

$archive= array ( file("files/archive.txt"));
$main = array_reverse($archive);
Include ("$main");


I've obviously done something wrong, but can't work it out. Thanks for all the help.

Have now solved the problem, thanks for all the help.

How did you fix your problem?

Figured out I was trying to Include an array, rather than Print ing it :P

I'm having a bit of a problem with sessions. I've neaver used them before, and I'm probably missing something out which needs to be there. Could someone please mention the essential functions I need for a session? Thanks in advance.

This would take the conversation out of scope of the original question, a new thread might have been a better idea

But anyways... make sure session_start() is [one of] the first functions called on your page.
then store stuff in the $_SESSION variable... eg: $_SESSION['username']='Bill';
session_destroy() kills the session too

the documentation is a good source of help. Not to mention many google'ing tutorials, and even devarticles articles.

Yeh, i thought considering it was still part of the same project, that i would post here, instead of clogging up the forums with unnecessary threads :P

I have it working now, thankyou very much for your help.