Firstly i'd like to say i dont know more than really basic php,
But i have a friend who loves php and he's very sick latly so i was hoping some one here could help me with his code...


its spread across three files

first one is index.php

I could send you the files if you wish just email me digimbyte _at_ gmail _dot_ com
Code:

<?php $get_shout = fopen('shout/shout.txt',a); $shout = nl2br($get_shout); ?> //title and other stuff //body <form id="shout" name="shout" method="post" action="shout.php" class="shout">  <label>  </label><div style="width: 120px; height:150px; overflow:auto; background: #ffffff"><?php print $shout; ?></div>  <input name="shout_field" type="text" id="shout_field" value="Shout Here" size="22" class="shout"/>  </label>  <label>  <input name="shout_submit" type="submit" class="shout" id="shout_submit" value="  -:Shout:-  "/>  </label> </form> // i also copied this following part into a shout.php <?php if($_POST['shout_submit']) { $message=" $_POST[shout_field]"; fwrite(fopen('shout/shout.txt',a), $message); } ?>

shout.php

Code:

<?php if($_POST['shout_submit']) { $message=" $_POST[shout_field]"; fwrite(fopen('shout/shout.txt',a), $message); } ?>

the other part is the text file

at url 'shout/shout.txt'

to see how it looks now
go to

(some times the images don't load properly, I have no idea why)

http://dbyte.icshost.org/

the text files url is
http://dbyte.icshost.org/shout/shout.txt

the php writes in the file fine but the div doesn't read it for some reason all i get is 'Resource id #3'

thanks in advanced


Quote:

<?php $get_shout = fopen('shout/shout.txt',a); $shout = nl2br($get_shout); ?>

The code above opens a file for append, then prepares it for output ... however, it's just the file handle.   To read a file, you need to use "r" rather that a in your fopen, then use an fgets (or something similar) to actually read the data.

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