hi! I was unable to find any pre-written php code for a survey without a database and using text files. So I was faced with the challenge of writing my first script! -lol
What I eventually ended up with was a 3 answer poll, that will be called for as many questions as I need, then I wil display the total results at the end of the survey. The problem is that the only way I was able to get it to work was to create a seperate text file for each available answer, (eg, yes.txt, no.txt notsure.txt) Which fir multiple questions can get kinda filey-lol This is what I WANTED to do, but was unable so far to find the way if there is one. I wanted to have one text file for answer storage, possibly writing the values for each answer on a seperate line, or a comma seperated list on one line. I was never able to extract values from a specific area in the text file. I tried to use fseek() to move the file pointer, but all I could get was 1 or 0. As I write this I thtink I remember reading of a function that allows you to read part of a file, and print the rest or something, but I need to able to first read a specific line, or value in the file, then extract just that value, and then update that value acording to the users answer, and then replace the updated value back in its respective place. All without touching the other values. Can anyone guide me to the proper way of figuring this out? Also, I wanted to create a IP log to prevent anyone from taking the poll / survey. The way I did it was to simply write the users "REMOTE_ADDR" to a text file, and then I used strstr($firstvalue, $second) to search for it and display the appropriate content. Is this appropriate>? thanks for reading this far-lol -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
