[Hunch]

Another thought that just occurred. If you want to use a text file, why not use the method that most php config files use.

So instead of your textfile containing this:

yes

instead, make it like this:

<?php
$available = "yes";
?>

Then all you need to do is add a line to your page saying

include "word.txt";

and the variable will automatically be set without having to check anything. Plus you've got the basis of a config file which you could easily use to store more settings if you require them in the future.

[datahound]

very good. *****

[mgpwr]

On my cms, i have a form with two options:

<option value="Not Just Yet">Not Available</option>
<option value="yes">Available</option>

which then the option value is posted to this file

<?php

$storefile = "avail.txt";

function writealltofile($text,$file){


$fp = fopen ($file, "w") or die("Couldn't open $file");
flock ($fp,LOCK_EX);

fwrite($fp, "$text");

flock ($fp,LOCK_UN);
fclose ($fp);

}

function gethtmlfromfile($file){

$filename = "$file";

$htmlfromfile = "";

$fp = fopen ($filename, "r") or die("Couldn't open $filename");

while (! feof($fp)){
$line = fgets($fp,1024);
$htmlfromfile = "$htmlfromfile"."$line";
}

$htmlfromfile = stripslashes("$htmlfromfile");
return $htmlfromfile;

}

if($var)
{

writealltofile($var,$storefile);

}

$varfromfile = gethtmlfromfile('avail.txt');

echo "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='2;url=index.php' />";
echo "Availability Changed, Please wait a moment...";

?>

However, if i change the value of the options to make it so that the script adds:

<?php
$available = "yes";
?>

instead of just

yes

its ouputs with these \\ that then causes it not to work

[ahref]

lol second thread ive posted this on

try using stripslashes() again on the output line

[wheedwacker]

Try

$word = file_get_contents('fullServerPath/word.txt');
if($word=='yes') {
echo 'available';
} else {
echo 'not available.';
//show not for hire stuff
}

Replace fullServerPath with the whole path to the word.txt file.
(I actually tested this one, and it does work)

[Hunch]

So looking at your code, you're writing to this file yourself (i.e. you're creating the PHP for the writing of the "yes/no" to the file and the reading of the same)?

[Shiro]

Since you have access to the cms code, switch it up to the way Hunch told you earlier. It will be more efficient, and will be less hassles to debug, with less chance of errors, and nicer sleeker code.

[Hunch]

Yeah, you got there before me. That was what I was coming around to. I was a bit baffled because previously he'd said he was using the CMS to create the file, as a reason not to follow the way I'd suggested (which I still thing is a lot neater and easier than reading and writing strings to files).