PHP - Form Data Not Writing To Text File

Hi folks,

Hello. I have one programming problem. I have this log, from witch i have to read specific area of text:
webtopay.log

OK 123.456.7.89 [2012-03-15 09:09:59 -0400] v1.5: MIKRO to:"1398", from:"865458961", id:"13525948", sms:"MCLADM thing"

So i need the script to extract word "thing" from that log. Also that script has to check if there is new entries in the log, and extract text from the last one.
(Explaining in other words, that script should extract word AFTER MCLADM. Every time its a different word)

p.s. I need that script to be integrated here (this has to send command to server "/manuadd (text from log)" :
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<?php
try{
     $HOST = "178.16.35.196"; //the ip of the bukkit server
     $password = "MCLietuva";
     //Can't touch this:
     $sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)
     or die("error: could not create socket\n");
     $succ = socket_connect($sock, $HOST, 4445) 
     or die("error: could not connect to host\n");
     //Authentification
     socket_write($sock, $command = md5($password)."<Password>", strlen($command) + 1)
     or die("error: failed to write to socket\n");
     //Begin custom code here.
     socket_write($sock, $command = "/Command/ExecuteConsoleCommandAndReturn-SimpleBroadCast:broadcast lol;", strlen($command) + 1) //Writing text/command we want to send to the server
     or die("error: failed to write to socket\n");
     sleep(2); // This is example code and here has to be that script i want to make.
     //while(($returnedString = socket_read($sock,50000))!= ""){
        $returnedString = socket_read($sock,50000,PHP_NORMAL_READ);
        print($returnedString)
     //}
     print("End of script");
     socket_close($sock);
}catch(Exception $e){
    echo $e->getMessage();
}
?>

I hope i made things clear and you will help me
Thanks

Hi Im trying to write info to a text file and it works perfectly with the following script, but it writes duplicate info, how can I change it so that no duplicate records are being added to my file and just ignore inserting it without giving a message?  

<?php
$myfile = fopen("users.csv", "a+") or die("Unable to open file!");
$mxituid = $_SERVER["HTTP_X_MXIT_USERID_R"];
$txt = "$mxituid\n";
fwrite($myfile, $txt);
fclose($myfile);
?>

Hey guys

i've been trying to find out how to create and and write in a file, so that you can for example add a nav button to your website by form (you know like a admin panel). It tried some things but it doesnt work cause it wont write to the file... here is the code i've used:

$ourFileName = $_POST['sitename'];
$ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fclose($ourFileHandle);

$myFile = $_POST['sitename'];
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = "test\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = "test\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

the "sitename" is the id from the form where you choose what the menu tab should be called.
I would really glad if you could help me out with this one thanks!

MinG

so what i have going on is that i need help writing a basic script to upload original and copy with resize for thumbnail. then also need to rename both image files with content in the form.
My server supports GD Library and that imagemagik or whatever it is lol.

upload dirs
orig: ../media/photos/
thumb: ../media/photos/thumb/

mySQL DB:
name: m_photos
fields: id(INT)
           m_cat(varchar)
           m_sub_cat(varchar)
           pic(varchar)
           description(varchar)
           p_group(varchar)

I have the form written up for how it should look like:
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<form action="upload.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  Upload an image for processing<br />
  <input type="file" name="Image"><br />
  <select name="sub_group">
    <option value="Photo Shoot">Photo Shoot</option>
    <option value="Live Performances">Live Performances</option>
    <option value="Randoms">Randoms</option>
    <option value="Fan Photos">Fan Photos</option>
  </select><br />
  Location:
  <input type="text" name="p_group" /><br />
  Date of Pic:
  <input type="text" name="date" /><br />
  Description:
  <input type="text" name="description" /><br />
  <input type="submit" value="Upload">
</form>

so what needs to happen is for the file upload name. it needs to grab a count from "p_group" database to give it a starting number in a "00" pattern and then the date of pic needs to go in there next then the p_group name. so when the files gets uploaded it would look something like this after upload. "03 - Oct 21, 2011 - The Mex.jpg"
NOTE: all pics must be converted to ".jpg" extension.

both the orig and thumb will use that same file name cuz they just go into different dirs

re-sizing for the thumbnail should be done by aspect ratio and needs to either be 300px width or 400px height.

so if anyone would like to help me out please do. im not the greatest at writing in php yet

Hi,   I need to create a landing page with a form. That form needs to be recorded somewhere instead of sent to email. I know I can write it to a SQL database, and then to an excel file. But I only need a temporary solution so I figured I'd just go straight to CSV.    Is this bad practice? What potential problems might I encounter other than security issues?

is there a php solution that will take
the raw data from one file and paste it
into another text file?

I have a master file and a download
file that always starts at quarter past
midnight . this data needs to be
pasted into the master file, in the
correct place , possibly overlapping
and replacing data that already exists.

the length of the download file will
vary but will always start at 00. 15
the two files are

www.maidenerleghweather.com/download.txt and also
www.maidenerleghweather.com/master.txt

any help appreciated .

I need to search through a text file and output certain text.
My current script doesn't work well at all.

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<?
$file = 'flist.txt';
$handle = @fopen($file, "r");
$names = array();
$func = array();
$desc = array();
$nme;
$fnc;
$dsc;
$s = -1;
$e = -1;
$n = 0;
if ($handle) {
    while (($buffer = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false) {

if($nme == 0)
{
if(strpos($buffer,"<a name") !== false)
{
$nme = 1;
$s = strpos($buffer,"<a name");
}
}
else if($nme == 1)
{
if(strpos($buffer,"</span>") !== false)
{
$nme = 2;
$e = strpos($buffer,"</span>");
$num = $e - $s;
$names[$n] = strip_tags(substr($buffer,$s,$num));
}
}
else if($nme == 2)
{
if($fnc == 0)
{
if(strpos($buffer,"<table style") !== false)
{
$fnc = 1;
$s = strpos($buffer,"<table style");
}
}
else if($fnc == 1)
{
if(strpos($buffer,"</td>") !== false)
{
$fnc = 2;
$e = strpos($buffer,"</td>");
$num = $e - $s;
$func[$n] = strip_tags(substr($buffer,$s,$num));
}
}
else if($fnc == 2)
{
if($dsc == 0)
{
if(strpos($buffer,"<p>") !== false)
{
$dsc = 1;
$s = strpos($buffer,"<p>");
}
}
else if($dsc == 1)
{
if(strpos($buffer,"</p>") !== false)
{
$fnc = 0;
$nme = 0;
$dsc = 0;
$e = strpos($buffer,"</p>");
$num = $e - $s;
$desc[$n] = strip_tags(substr($buffer,$s,$num));
}
}
}
}
    }
    if (!feof($handle)) {
        echo "Error: unexpected fgets() fail\n";
    }
    fclose($handle);
$n = 0;
while($n < 100)
{
echo $names[$n] . "<br>";
echo $func[$n] . "<br>";
echo $desc[$n] . "<p>";
$n ++;
}
}
?>
4096 gets the data for each line, right? Well some of my data uses two lines.

After all the searching is done I need it to output $names, $func, and $desc in plain text.

can someone give me a push here?  I've tried "file_put_contents" and "fputs" and neither one works for me.  I'm running PHP on an IIS server and a windows hosting plan.  PHP version is 7.3.1 I believe.  here is my code:

if ($validation = "true") {
    file_put_contents("ValidationsRedeemed.txt", $validationKey . "|", FILE_APPEND);
    //$handle = fopen("ValidationsRedeemed.txt", "a");
    //fwrite($handle, $validationKey . "|");
    //fclose ($handle);
                            }
else { //user entered a product key that is not recognized.  tell them to try again.
    echo "<script>alert('The product key entered is not valid.'+'\\n\\n'+'Please try again.');
    	 window.location.href='test.php';</script>";
    }

thanks!

i have a text file that has spaces between each column.

eg

12 12 13 22 34.5
10 13 18 88 32.5
12 33 17 23 22.3

(the actual data is weather data that accumulates a new line every 15 mins and is seen at www.maidenerleghweather.com/clientraw.txt )

each column represents a weather variable.

i would like to use php to find the maximum values in each column and minimum values etc etc.

how can i get the text data into arrays, so that i can then easily perform some simple stats on it?

HOWEVER each line would NOT be an array.

the first value in each line makes up array number one, second makes up two etc

any ideas for a newbie beginner would be welcomed.

Hello All,

Please excuse my lack of knowledge in advance, I'm a beginner but pick things up relatively quickly, and tend to do things by trial and error.

I would appreciate any help that anyone could offer with the following:

I would like to retrieve two pieces of data from a "text file" and use them to calculate a result from a function I have in javascript. An example of the javascript code is:

<script type="text/javascript">
function calculate() {
var drybulb = document.calc_form.drybulb.value;
var relhum = document.calc_form.relhum.value;
var answer = '';
if (drybulb !== '' && relhum !== '') {
answer = (0.567*drybulb*1) + (0.393 * (relhum*1/100 * 6.105 * Math.exp(17.27 * drybulb / (237.7 + drybulb*1)))) + 3.94;
}
document.calc_form.answer.value = answer;
return false;
}
</script>

Currently this is evaluated with entry from a simple html form, but I would like to have this performed "automatically".


The "text file" that I would like to access is here, not on my server:

http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDV60901/IDV60901.94870.axf

I would like to extract the "air_temp" and "rel_hum" values under the [data] section for use in my function. I just need the "most recent" values (i.e. first), not all those contained in the file. This is a single record from that section (sorry for the mess this no doubt makes):

[data]
sort_order,wmo,name[80],history_product[80],local_date_time[80],local_date_time_full[80],aifstime_utc[80],air_temp,apparent_t,cloud[80],cloud_base_m,cloud_oktas,cloud_type[80],cloud_type_id,delta_t,dewpt,gust_kmh,gust_kt,lat,lon,press,press_msl,press_qnh,press_tend[80],rain_trace[80],rel_hum,sea_state[80],swell_dir_worded[80],swell_height,swell_period,vis_km[80],weather[80],wind_dir[80],wind_spd_kmh,wind_spd_kt
0,94870,"Moorabbin Airport","IDV60901","27/10:00pm","20120227220000","20120227110000",18.8,19.3,"Partly cloudy",510,3,"-",-9999,0.8,17.5,13,7,-38.0,145.1,1013.5,-9999.0,1013.5,"-","11.4",92,"-","-",-9999.0,-9999,"10","-","S",11,6



Would it be possible to obtain these values using PHP?, and if so any advice on how this could be done (noting my minimal knowledge) would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

I have a very simple system (few files) having simple articles (only title and a paragraph description) stored in single text files. I catch the data by

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$data=file('article1.txt');
$title=$data[0];
$description=$data[1];
This simple system works perfectly, but the problem appears when increasing the number of files (e.g. more than 10,000 articles). This is a problem connected with the OS behavior for handling huge number of files. My first question: Is there theoretically a faster system (e.g. database-based) for retrieving data, comparing with retrieving from plain text file?

Second question: what can be an alternative for this very simple system (no search query or additional field)?

1. XML: It has the same problem if storing in different files.
2. Mysql: It is very advanced for this system.
3. SQLite:I am thinking of this, but it still have advanced structure of SQL.
4. DB Berkeley: I am not familiar with Oracle at all, and I need to install something new on my server. Is it really worth of trying?
5. Anything else?

In general, I just need fast reading the data. I have no idea how much the speed of these systems are different to determine which is worth of consideration. Thanks for sharing your idea.

Hi

I'm learning php and trying to write a script to extract registration information from a large text file. Sadly my meagre knowledge of php is letting me down a bit. It's a case of knowing what you want the script to do but not having the knowlege of how to 'say it'.

So i was hoping that if I posted my code here someone could either give me a few pointers on where i am going wrong or suggest  a better way.

The text file data luckily has a recurring format as follows (for brevity i've only included one entry, which contains made up information):



From:   bella_done@yahoo.co.uk
Sent:   02 February 2011 22:50
To:   Jonny tum, patsy fells, dingly bongo
Subject:   Subject: Fun Run 2010

Categories:   Fun Run

Name: Bella Donna
 Address: 14 brondle avenue
 Postcode: cd83 1rg
 Phone: 0287343510
 Email: bella_don@yahoo.co.uk
 DOB: 15/11/1945
 Half or Full: Full fun run
 How did you hear: Took part in 2010

As you can see the data has a convenient boundary at the 'from' field and the colon (or so it occurred to me) so I created my script as follows:



// the string being analysed
$the_string = "
From:

bella_done@yahoo.co.uk
Sent:

02 February 2011 22:50
To:

Jonny tum, patsy fells, dingly bongo
Subject:

Subject: Fun Run 2010

Categories:

Fun Run

Name: Bella Donna 
 Address: 14 brondle avenue 
 Postcode: cd83 1rg 
 Phone: 0287343510 
 Email: bella_don@yahoo.co.uk 
 DOB: 15/11/1945 
 Half or Full: Full fun run 
 How did you hear: Took part in 2010";

// remove all formatting to work with a clean string

$clean_string = strip_tags($the_string);



// remove form field entries from the data and replace with commas and a ZZZ boundary

$remove_fields = array("Categories:" => "","Name:" => ",","Address:" => ",","Postcode:" => ",","Phone:" => 

",","Email:" => ",","DOB:" => ",","Half or Full:" => ",","How did you hear:" => ",","From:" => "ZZZ","Sent:" => 

",","To:" => ",",  );


$new_string = strtr("$clean_string",$remove_fields);


// split the data at the boundary ZZZ

$string_to_array = explode("ZZZ", $new_string);

$new_string2 = implode("</br>",$string_to_array);

echo $new_string2; 




$myFile = "address_list.csv";
 $fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
 $stringData = $new_string2;
 fwrite($fh, $stringData);
 fclose($fh);




One major problem is when i write the new data to a csv file the csv contains spacings that cause it to be reproduced in a column form rather than as separate fields for each comma boundary.

So can anyone suggest either

a) a better way of extracting the data from the text file (doesn't need to be 100% clean and perfect)

b) How can i stop the spaces in the csv (i thought i would have fixed this when i stripped the tags from the string at the start??).

Any help would be greatly received by a newbie phper.

It's my first shot at performing anything moderately taxing so if I've made some blaring oversites I would very much welcome your wisdom!

Thank you

Drongo

Hello,    Trying to rearrange a data on the website. Looks normal when looking through preview on IE and chrome. But once moved to live website, the whole alignment changes from left to center , including the text that needs to show up. I am a newbie to coding and dont have a clue. tried puttng something together based on what i foud on the web. attaching screenshot and the code that i did. any help is highly appreciated. also attached is a screenshot of what happens when the php file is uploaded. Prior to doing that, the menu on the left is aligned properly and the assets that we have show properly.    What we are trying to do is rearrage the whole assets into different categories.    many thanks  Attached Files  portfolio.php   3.27KB   2 downloads  noalignment.png   11KB   0 downloads

Ok, I have tried using the code from this link http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100927173625AAmEmiW


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<?php
// Get the name they entered in the form
// We'll be naming the file this
$file = $_POST['name'];
// Get the email from the form
$email = $_POST['email'];
// We want the file to be a text file right?
$ex = ".txt";
// Try to open a file named $file$ex (johndoe.txt for example)
// Because this file doesn't exist yet the server creates it
$write = fopen("$file$ex","w");
// Now open the file up again but this time save the email in it
fwrite($write,$email);
// MAKE SURE you close the file!!!
fclose($write);
// The folder that this script is in on the server is where the file we just made was saved
// We can 'rename' it to another folder
// The folder on the server we want to move it to 
$data = "../emails/";
// Now put it all together: This example goes out of the folder we're in and into the folder 'emails'
// The new 'name' would be this now (../emails/johndoe.txt): So now the file is moved to where we want for storage
rename ("$file","$data$file$ex");
// The script is done, send the user to another page (Just read the address below and you'll get it)
exit;
?>



unfortunately it doesn't do as i would like.  I'm not sure how to get it to save a new file based on a variable on the form page or from one of the fields in the form.  What i need is a way for a user to submit the form and it save the data into a uniquely named csv file.  I know the code given is for text files, not csv, but that was about all i could find.  If there is any help i would greatly appreciate it.