Question

I have a little issue while trying to kill time. I am writint to a text file the contents of the filled in form so it is easy to read. At the moment everything gets put int a single line, and therfore I can not tell where msgs begin or end. I wrote a php like this:

$from = $_POST[from];
$friend = $_POST[friend];
$carrier = $_POST[carrier];
$message = stripslashes($_POST[message]);

if ((empty($from)) || (empty($friend)) || (empty($message))) {
header ("Location: sms_error.php");
}

else if ($carrier == "orange_mobile_network") {
$formatted_number = $friend."@orange_mobile_network.co.uk";
mail("$formatted_number", "SMS", "$message"); 

header ("Location: sms_success.php");
}

Then the SMS/Text message will be sent. After this I wanted to write/store/append the message on a txt file. So I wrote:

$myFile = "sms_Numbers_Mgs.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a+') or die("can't open file");

$stringData = $_POST[from];
fwrite($fh, $stringData);

$stringData = $_POST[friend];
fwrite($fh, $stringData);

$stringData = $_POST[message];
fwrite($fh, $stringData);

fclose($fh);

But like I said. Everything works. I just want to be able to read the file and put everything in a new line and possibly format it nicely for easy reading. I do not want to use a DB for storing the TXT as my host is going to charge me.

Answer 1

change this:

fwrite($fh, $stringData);

with this:

fwrite($fh, $stringData . PHP_EOL);

or:

fwrite($fh, $stringData . "\r\n");