A little PHP/HTLM Help?

unlimit · 04-10-11, 05:27 PM

Hi, my guild leader wrote something on our forums and I was just seeing if anyone here would have the knowledge / willing to be able to help us out?

Hey, im working on a program for something going in my lab. Basically i need to pass a number from an html file to a write file later on in the series.

Here is the html file in which we get the number i need with the form.

Code:

<html> <form action="IAT.php" method="post">    
Subject ID: <input type="text" name="sub" /> <input type="submit" value="submit" /> 
</form> </html>

below here is IAT.php which the number is being passed to

Code:

<?php require_once("IATname.inc"); ?><?php    if( !isset( $_POST['sub'] ) || !$_POST['sub'] ){       die( 'No sub provided! go back and try again!' );    }        // initialize a session    // a session allows us to maintain state related to a specific user across page views    session_start();        // store the sub inside the session data    $_SESSION['subject'] = $_POST['sub']; ?> 
<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo $IATname; ?> IAT</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="IAT.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"> 
   initialize(); 
   document.onkeypress = keyHandler; 
</script>
<style type="text/css"> @import "iat.css";</style>
</head>

<body>
    
<div id="experiment_frame">
    <div id="header">
        <div id="left_cat"></div><div id="right_cat"></div>
    </div>
    <div id="picture_frame">
        <div id="exp_instruct"></div>
        <div id="word" class="IATitem"></div>
        <img id="wrong" src="Wrong.jpg">
    </div>
</div>
<div id="under_instruct">
    If the <b>E</b> and <b>I</b> keys do not work, click the mouse inside the white box and try again.<br>
    If the red <font color=red>X</font> appears, press the other key to make the red <font color=red>X</font> go away.
</div>

</body>

And finally here is the write file. Basically the iat collect a bunch of data and than writes it in a file. I want the number that was put in the html file to write into the file name so that it will write IAT_the number and the random text and date marker we have. I can tell the number is being passed to the IAT file but for some reason teh write while keeps writing IAT_unknown_date_random text. Ive been working on this since thursday and its driving me batty. Any help would be good. If you aren't pro at php please dont provide crappy suggestions i might kill myself

Here is the writefile

Code:

<?php 
session_start();
$base_dir = realpath(dirname(__FILE__));  

$folder_dir = "/Users/patrick/Sites/IAT/implicitassoc/trunk/output";    // retrieve the subject from the session data -- or unknown if not there (so we don't lose data) 

$sub = isset( $_SESSION['subject'] ) ? $_SESSION['subject'] : 'unknown' ;  
echo $sub;
$data = $_REQUEST["data"]; $randtxt = date('Y-m-d-H-s-') . dechex(rand(4097,65536));  // we need to stick the subject identifier in the file name 
$fh = fopen($folder_dir. '/IAT_' . $sub . '-' . $randtxt . '.txt', 'w'); 
fwrite($fh, $data); 
fclose($fh);  
?>

Ither · 04-10-11, 06:08 PM

Tell your friend to watch the code breaks. He had them messed up.

The files he needs to fix are listed below

IAT.php

PHP Code:



<?php
require_once("IATname.inc");
if( !isset( $_POST['sub'] ) || !$_POST['sub'] ){       
    die( 'No sub provided! go back and try again!' );    }
    $_SESSION['subject'] = $_POST['sub']; ?> 
<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo $IATname; ?> IAT</title>
</head>

<body>
    
<div id="experiment_frame">
    <div id="header">
        <div id="left_cat"></div><div id="right_cat"></div>
    </div>
    <div id="picture_frame">
        <div id="exp_instruct"></div>
        <div id="word" class="IATitem"></div>
        <img id="wrong" src="Wrong.jpg">
    </div>
</div>
<div id="under_instruct">
    If the <b>E</b> and <b>I</b> keys do not work, click the mouse inside the white box and try again.<br>
    If the red <font color=red>X</font> appears, press the other key to make the red <font color=red>X</font> go away.
</div>

</body>

He did not put $_SESSION['subject'] = $_POST['sub']; on a new line therefore it was blocked by markup. Also, he has both INC and call in two separate <?> blocks; no reason to do that.

IATname.inc

PHP Code:



<?php 
session_start();
$base_dir = realpath(dirname(__FILE__));  

$folder_dir = "/Users/patrick/Sites/IAT/implicitassoc/trunk/output";    // retrieve the subject from the session data -- or unknown if not there (so we don't lose data) 

$sub = isset( $_SESSION['subject'] ) ? $_SESSION['subject'] : 'unknown' ;  
echo $sub;
$data = $_REQUEST["data"]; $randtxt = date('Y-m-d-H-s-');  // we need to stick the subject identifier in the file name 
$fh = fopen($folder_dir. '/IAT_' . $sub . '-' . $randtxt . '.txt', 'w'); 
fwrite($fh, $data); 
fclose($fh);  
?>

I removed . dechex(rand(4097,65536)); because I saw no reason why he needed a decimal to hex conversion. I don't know the full extent of his assignment. This was giving a random hex at the end of the filename.

There you go. Solved.

That will be 10,000g. Please ask him to forward it to my super secret Swiss Bank account.

unlimit · 04-10-11, 07:47 PM

Thanks a ton.

Ither · 04-10-11, 07:50 PM

No problem.

unlimit · 04-10-11, 09:27 PM

My friend still seems to be getting a problem with your script, would you mind helping me out a bit more if it isn't too much to ask?

still writing as unknown - code as it stands now. Willing to give server side access if it will help. With the new write file it was written as

IAT_unknown-date.txt

IAT.php

PHP Code:



<?php 
require_once("IATname.inc"); 
if( !isset( $_POST['sub'] ) || !$_POST['sub'] ){* * * * 
    die( 'No sub provided! go back and try again!' );* * } 
    $_SESSION['subject'] = $_POST['sub']; ?>  
<html> 
<head> 
<title><?php echo $IATname; ?> IAT</title> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="IAT.js"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.min.js"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript">  
    initialize();  
    document.onkeypress = keyHandler;  
</script> 
<style type="text/css"> @import "iat.css";</style> 
</head> 
 
<body> 
* *  
<div id="experiment_frame"> 
* * <div id="header"> 
* * * * <div id="left_cat"></div><div id="right_cat"></div> 
* * </div> 
* * <div id="picture_frame"> 
* * * * <div id="exp_instruct"></div> 
* * * * <div id="word" class="IATitem"></div> 
* * * * <img id="wrong" src="Wrong.jpg"> 
* * </div> 
</div> 
<div id="under_instruct"> 
* * If the <b>E</b> and <b>I</b> keys do not work, click the mouse inside the white box and try again.<br> 
* * If the red <font color=red>X</font> appears, press the other key to make the red <font color=red>X</font> go away. 
</div> 
 
</body>

Write file

PHP Code:



<?php  
session_start(); 
$base_dir = realpath(dirname(__FILE__));*  
 
$folder_dir = "/Users/patrick/Sites/IAT/implicitassoc/trunk/output";* * // retrieve the subject from the session data -- or unknown if not there (so we don't lose data)  
 
$sub = isset( $_SESSION['subject'] ) ? $_SESSION['subject'] : 'unknown' ;*  
echo $sub; 
$data = $_REQUEST["data"]; $randtxt = date('Y-m-d-H-s-');* // we need to stick the subject identifier in the file name  
$fh = fopen($folder_dir. '/IAT_' . $sub . '-' . $randtxt . '.txt', 'w');  
fwrite($fh, $data);  
fclose($fh);*  
?>

Ither · 04-10-11, 09:30 PM

Shot you a PM with my email, have your friend email me.

Looks like his server may be running an outdated version of PHP.

unlimit · 04-10-11, 11:26 PM

Originally Posted by StormCalai

Shot you a PM with my email, have your friend email me.

Looks like his server may be running an outdated version of PHP.

I fixed it. :3 Nevermind, thank you so much!