Hi all, To start of with ill exsplain what im doing. I am making a game walkthrough submitter script. How ever i have come across a few things i need some help with doing. Ok, so to start of with there are 3 text boxes The 1st one they type there username into, the second They write the game title in and 3rd one they add the walkthrough to. Then there is a drop down box with 5 selections 1) Action & Adventure 2) Driving & Racing 3) Role-Playing Games 4) War & Shoot 'Em Ups 5) Sport On submit, it creates a page from a pre made template at walkthrough/templates/file1.html wich consists of ( for example ) <html> <head> <title>{REPLACE_TITLE}</title> </head> <body> MADE BY <b> {REPLACE_WITH_USERNAME} </b> IN CATAGORY <b> {REPLACE_CATAGORY} </b> <b> {REPLACE_DATA} </b> </body> </html> PHP: so what i need is to modify the following script to do this, im just not sure on the script to fufill my needs. Also i would like it if it gives the file a random name ( so the same one is never used twice ) <?php if(empty($_POST)) { ?> <form method="post"> File Name <input type="text" name="name" size="20"><p> Game Name <input type="text" name="title" size="22"></p> <p> Walkthrough - use as much space as you like<br> <textarea rows="16" name="content" cols="51"></textarea><br> <input type="submit" value="Create"> </p> </form> <?php die(); } $name = $_POST['name']; $title = $_POST['title']; $content = $_POST['content']; $sanitized_name = preg_replace('/[^0-9a-z\.\_\-]/i','',$name); if ($sanitized_name == $name) { $data = file_get_contents("walkthrough/templates/file1.html"); if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()) $data = stripslashes($data); $data = str_replace("{REPLACE_TITLE}",$title,$data); $data = str_replace("{REPLACE_DATA}",$content,$data); write_file("walkthrough/$name.php",$data); } else { echo "Filename problems. Try ".$sanitized_name; exit; } function write_file($filename,$data) { $f = fopen($filename,"w"); fwrite($f,$data); fclose($f); } ?> PHP: also this script creates the script to the folder /walkthrough/ and i would like it to create it into the folder depending on what category they place it under. Another thing that would be great ( if anyone knows how to do it ) is to also add a link to the created page, in the form of a table with the text being the game title. ( so its like a menu, that would be great ). Any questions just ask Thanx - all help is apreceated. - Paul
I don't know - is there a reason why you are writing this to files, instead of a database? In my opinion, it would be much much better to use a database for this project, as it will facilitate search and such on the page itself later on. Searching through flat-files is a bore. If you select to do this with a database, you would also not have to worry about having subdirectories and such - you could also easily implement a menu based on category, alphabetize the contents of the categories, and you wouldn't really need much more than a single page for displaying them.
TBH my php aint all that great, im more of a vb programmer, The reason why i am using files is because its the only way i know how to do it. . . i wouldent know how to go about using databases
Have a look at this http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Website-Database-Basics-With-PHP-and-MySQL/ I would definitely recommend you learn how to use MySQL. You will only need the basics to acheive what you wanted above and it's FAR easier in the long run than all this writing to direcotires and creating paths.
i havent even been able to learn php yet, so i dont think ill get anywhere with mysql. Plz dont think that im one of those peeps that just want everyone to do everything for me, but for this i have no clue on doing what i want and could realy do with a working example to use, and of course learn from. I dont mind the fact that its not in a database, but could anyone edit the code to make a working example plz, Thanx