RE: [PHP] magical file writing truncation

2003-08-14 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] $newFile = xml/.$type./.$now..xml; while(file_exists($newFile)) $newFile = xml/.$type./.$now++..xml; $text = $_POST['text']; $text = urlencode(stripslashes(nl2br($text))); [/snip] At this point (for testing putposes) I would echo $text; and start looking for clues. If I were a

Re: [PHP] magical file writing truncation

2003-08-14 Thread skate
[snip] i really can't get my head around this one at all. could it possibly be a windows issue??? i know windows can be an arse in dealing with files, but i can't see how it could pick up on a variable inside PHP and truncate it? [/snip] I just have one more thought because you brought up

RE: [PHP] magical file writing truncation

2003-08-14 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] [snip] $newFile = xml/.$type./.$now..xml; while(file_exists($newFile)) $newFile = xml/.$type./.$now++..xml; $text = $_POST['text']; $text = urlencode(stripslashes(nl2br($text))); [/snip] ack, sorry to double post... it appears that it actually reverse truncates

Re: [PHP] magical file writing truncation

2003-08-14 Thread skate
I didn't see anything right off of the bat. You may want to output the text both ways and then compare them using http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.strcmp.php apart from the fact that the slashes are there in one, and not in the other, there is no difference... $fp =

Re: [PHP] magical file writing truncation

2003-08-14 Thread skate
Let's work backwards then. Instead of $text = urlencode(stripslashes(nl2br($text))); try $text = urlencode(nl2br($text)); echo $text; Can you post the first couple of raw lines of text and then the echo'd output? -- okay, the first few lines of raw text are as follows... it's a

Re: [PHP] magical file writing truncation

2003-08-14 Thread skate
[snip] $newFile = xml/.$type./.$now..xml; while(file_exists($newFile)) $newFile = xml/.$type./.$now++..xml; $text = $_POST['text']; $text = urlencode(stripslashes(nl2br($text))); [/snip] ack, sorry to double post... it appears that it actually reverse truncates the

RE: [PHP] magical file writing truncation

2003-08-11 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] OK, put stripslashes back in and show the echo'd out put again. - $text = urlencode(stripslashes(nl2br($text))); print $text; [/snip] I didn't see anything right off of the bat. You may want to output the text both ways and then compare them using

Re: [PHP] magical file writing truncation

2003-08-10 Thread skate
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Re: [PHP] magical file writing truncation

2003-08-09 Thread skate
[snip] $newFile = xml/.$type./.$now..xml; while(file_exists($newFile)) $newFile = xml/.$type./.$now++..xml; $text = $_POST['text']; $text = urlencode(stripslashes(nl2br($text))); [/snip] At this point (for testing putposes) I would echo $text; and start looking for clues. If I

Re: [PHP] magical file writing truncation

2003-08-09 Thread skate
obviously there's no simple solution here... can anyone point me in the way of an alternative way of doing this? i could try the file write in 3 stages, first part of content, text, end of content, as they seem to write fine seperatly. this is magical, evening seperating the file open, and

RE: [PHP] magical file writing truncation

2003-08-09 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] i really can't get my head around this one at all. could it possibly be a windows issue??? i know windows can be an arse in dealing with files, but i can't see how it could pick up on a variable inside PHP and truncate it? [/snip] I just have one more thought because you brought up

RE: [PHP] magical file writing truncation

2003-08-09 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] okay, the first few lines of raw text are as follows... it's a chat log btw... Session Start (Yahoo! - fatcubanskate:the_lady_in_waiting1982): Thu Jul 10 21:23:42 2003 [21:23] the_lady_in_waiting1982: hey sexy!!! [21:24] fatcubanskate: hey sugar [21:24] fatcubanskate: how\'s thing? [21:25]