I have been working on this forever now and I cannot seem to get this to work.
I have a flat-file db that I can work with, nothing else, I know, it's terrible.
I have created a form for a user to input data into, it saves as a text file with a delimiter. There are about 25 fields on the form.
I now want to be able to edit those fields. This seems straigt forward enough, but I cannot get it.
Here is my code, I have broke it down to just one item to fill in the text file for simplicities sake:
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//open file and populate array with data
$fh = fopen("timberdata.txt", "rw") or exit("Unable to open file!");
//this gives me the line# and fills $var with the first item of each line in the text file
//the item I would like to find in order to edit the file, it displays it for the user to type the correct
//information into the form below in order to find the correct item to edit
$i=0;
while(!feof($fh)) {
$line_of_text = fgets($fh);
$parts = explode('|', $line_of_text);
$var[$i] = $parts[0];
echo $var[$i] . '<br/>';
$i++;
}
//close file
fclose($fh);
?>
//FORM TO ACCEPT NAME FOR EDITING, This name is then run against my if() statement below to see if
//the name exists
<br />
Type a Sale Name, exactally as seen above, in here: <br/>
<form action="<?php $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]; ?>" method="post">
<input name="selectSaleName" type="text" size="20" />
<input name="confirm" type="submit" value="confirm" />
</form>
<br/>
<?php
//check out the posting
if (!empty($_POST['confirm'])) {
$selectSaleName = trim($_POST['selectSaleName']);
//put file information in array
$lines = file("timberdata.txt");
//run through the lines in the file and give line a number if you want to see it...
//I am doing this so I can possibly edit the line#?????
foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
//explode file into $parts array
$parts = explode('|',$line);
//found the matching Sale Name!
//NOW I WANT TO PUT ALL THE DATA IN THE $parts[] arrray into the Form Fields Below
if($selectSaleName == $parts[0]){
echo '<p class="warning">'. "THIS ONE! " . $parts[0] . '</p>';
?>
//MY FORM TO GET DATA FROM
<form action="<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post" name="timbersales" id="timbersales" class="cssform">
<input name="salename" tabindex="1" type="text" size="40" value="<?php echo $parts[0]; ?>" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
//POST TO THE FILE -WHY WONT THIS WORK?????
<?php
if (!empty($_POST['submit'])) {
$fp = fopen('timbersales.txt', 'w');
fwrite($fp,$salename);
echo '<p class="warningsm">' . $selectSaleName . ' Data Updated as of: ' . $date . ' <a href="logout.php">LOGOUT HERE!</a>' . '</p>';
fclose($fp);
}
}
}
//this Sale Name doesn't exist! Break!
if($selectSaleName != $parts[0]){
echo '<p class="warning">' . $selectSaleName . ' does not exist in the database.'.'</p>';
break;
}
}Any help would be great... even going a difffernet way??
Thanks!