Need a little help with PHP please Array

[Bottlebank]

I have this script which receives the posted variables and strings them all together in the way I want into $ResultsArray. Perfect

When I use the foreach loop and echo the array it works. Perfect

When I send another lot of the posted variables again and string them all together into $ResultsArray it overwrites the first value so instead of

So instead of getting eg.

0: rubbish
1: garbage

I get:

0:garbage

because it has overwritten rubbish.

<?PHP

        $AuthorBox = $_POST['AuthorBox'];
        $TitleBox = $_POST['TitleBox'];
        $TitleBox ="<i>$TitleBox</i>";
        $YopBox = $_POST['YopBox'];
        $PopBox = $_POST['PopBox'];
        $PublisherBox = $_POST['PublisherBox'];
        $EditionBox = $_POST['EditionBox'];
        
        
 
$ResultsArray[$value] = $AuthorBox.'. ('.$YopBox.'), '.$TitleBox.', ('.$EditionBox.' edition), '.$PopBox.': '.$PublisherBox.'.<BR><BR>';
        
        foreach ($ResultsArray as $key => $value) {
    echo ("$key: $value<br>\n");
    
};
        
        
        
        


        ?>

Any thoughts on how to solve this would be very awesome.

Thanks

Bottlebank

[Bottlebank]

Sorry copied the wrong PHP, this one is the one....almost the same bar the $value in the array key

<?PHP

        $AuthorBox = $_POST['AuthorBox'];
        $TitleBox = $_POST['TitleBox'];
        $TitleBox ="<i>$TitleBox</i>";
        $YopBox = $_POST['YopBox'];
        $PopBox = $_POST['PopBox'];
        $PublisherBox = $_POST['PublisherBox'];
        $EditionBox = $_POST['EditionBox'];
        
        
 
$ResultsArray[] = $AuthorBox.'. ('.$YopBox.'), '.$TitleBox.', ('.$EditionBox.' edition), '.$PopBox.': '.$PublisherBox.'.<BR><BR>';
        
        foreach ($ResultsArray as $key => $value) {
    echo ("$key: $value<br>\n");
    
};
        
        
        
        


        ?>

[Musicman]

Hi,

well, you have flash send data to some php, and the php gets them, adds them to a new array, and quits.
The next data from flash will start a new php script and do the same.

In order to actually accumulate data, the php script would need to save the data to some file or database, and then the next run could add to the saved data and return all results.
If using a file, you would perhaps use

$fp = fopen("datafile.txt", "a");
fputs($fp, $AuthorBox.'. ('.$YopBox.'), '.$TitleBox.', ('.$EditionBox.' edition), '.$PopBox.': '.$PublisherBox."\n");
fclose($fp);
$fp = fopen("datafile.txt", "r");
while($line = fgets($fp))
      echo($line);
fclose($fp);

This is not perfect, but I assume there will never be two simultaneous submissions in your setup

Musicman

[Bottlebank]

So....

$fp = fopen("datafile.txt", "a");
fputs($fp, $AuthorBox.'. ('.$YopBox.'), '.$TitleBox.', ('.$EditionBox.' edition), '.$PopBox.': '.$PublisherBox."\n");
fclose($fp);
$fp = fopen("datafile.txt", "a");
while($line = fgets($fp))
echo($line);
fclose($fp);

by doing this my variables will be saved to a text document and then opened again by the php script.

On the second time of sending the variables, won't it over write what is already on the .txt file?

Bottlebank

[Musicman]

Hi,

that's the "a" (append) argument to fopen - note I corrected a typo and changed the second fopen to use "r" for reading

Musicman

[Bottlebank]

Music Man, That works a treat.

Many thanks Mate, I owe you a cyber pint!

Bottlebank