Re: [MLUG] PHP newbie

[John Engelbrecht <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I don't know away to improve it, but I can
point out a thing or 2.

instead of using $_POST["comments"], and if
your address is like,
http://mad.chickenkiller.com/blogtest/blog.php?comments=cdtgfgytfgyytgtu
PHP creates a varible called $comments, so you can just use
fwrite($fp,$comments);

Also, technically, I haven't looked up "ab" yet, but with
$fp = fopen($filename,"w");
If the file doesn't exist, it should created it, but if
you're reading a file and it doesn't exist, you should
be able to get by with...

if(!$fp = fopen($filename,"r")) {
   printf("ERROR: file %s does not exist\n",$filename);
   return;
   }

And that's basicly the same thing as if File does not exist.

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, yoda wrote:

> Hey, all. I wanted to play with some interactivity on my site, so I figured I'd
> start toying with PHP. I looked up a bunch of stuff, and wrote a little page for
> my journal that allows comments. It's pretty basic, but I was wondering if
> someone would be willing to skim the code quickly and see if there's anything I
> could improve (with respect to security, efficiency, etc.) on it. Thanks to
> anyone who's willing to help.
>
> I've added .txt to the end so you can download it without preprocessing:
> http://mad.chickenkiller.com/blogtest/blog.php.txt
> You can see it in action at:
> http://mad.chickenkiller.com/blogtest/index.php
>
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