Very new to PHP, Can someone tell me where ive gone wrong?

ActaNonVerba1 · August 15, 2010

My code works perfectly at showing my customer what they have ordered, how much it is, including tax etc. However, when i try to write to a flat file (.txt.) I get 500 errors

The issue may be with my output string or the writing to file, i dont know :/

Can someone help?

Thanks,

Danny.

CODE:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=9">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.png"/> 
<link href="Navigation.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="Buttons.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="CSS.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="Forms.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<title>Welcome to Danny's Test Site - Dannys Test Site</title>
<?php
//Create Short Variable Names
$tireqty = $_POST['tireqty'];
$oilqty = $_POST['oilqty'];
$sparkqty = $_POST['sparkqty'];
$number = $_POST['number'];
$street = $_POST['street'];
$town = $_POST['town'];
$county = $_POST['county'];
$postcode = $_POST['postcode'];
$country = $_POST['country'];
$find = $_POST['find'];

$DOCUMENT_ROOT = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
?>
</head>

<body>
<div id="Logo"><img src="Logo.png" width="633" height="60" alt="Logo"></div>
<div id="Navigation">
  <ul id="nav">
    <li><a href="Index.php">Home</a></li>
    <li class="current"><a href="Php.php">PHP</a>
      <ul>
        <li class="current"><a href="Php.php">Order Form</a></li>
        <li><a href="Freight.php">Freight Costs</a></li>
        <li><a href="View-Orders.php">View Orders</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href="MySQL.php">MySQL</a></li>
    <li><a href="HTML-5.php">HTML5</a></li>
    <li><a href="CSS.php">CSS3</a></li>
    <li><a href="Blog.php">Blog</a></li>
    <li><a href="Social-Networking.php">Social Networking</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>
<div id="Content">
<div id="style">
<h1> Freight Prices</h1>
<h2>Your Order is Complete</h2>
    <div id="Results">
<?php

//Time order made
echo '<br />';
echo '<p>Order Processed at ';
echo date('H:i jS F Y').'<p>';

//Order Contains
echo '<hr />';
echo '<h3> Your order is as follows: </h3>';
echo $tireqty.' Tyres<br />';
echo $oilqty.' Litres of Oil<br />';
echo $sparkqty.' Spark Plugs<br />';

//Assign Values to Variables
$totalqty= 0;
$totalqty = $tireqty + $oilqty + $sparkqty;
echo 'Total number of items ordered: '.$totalqty.'<br />';
$totalamount = 0.00;

//Set Price Of Each Product
define ('TIREPRICE', 100);
define ('OILPRICE', 10);
define ('SPARKPRICE', 4);

//Total Cost Pre Tax
$totalamount = $tireqty * TIREPRICE
             + $oilqty * OILPRICE 
             + $sparkqty * SPARKPRICE;

$totalamount=number_format ($totalamount, 2, '.', ' ');

echo '<br />';
echo '<hr />';
echo '<h3>Cost</h3>';
echo 'Price without VAT: £'.number_format($totalamount,2).'<br />';

//Tax Added
$taxrate = 0.175; //VAT is 17.5%
$totalamount = $totalamount * (1 + $taxrate);
echo 'Total including VAT: £'.number_format($totalamount,2).'<br />';

//Remind user of Price
echo '<hr />';
echo '<h3> Individual Product Prices </h3>';
echo 'Tyres cost £'; echo TIREPRICE; echo ' each <br />';
echo 'Oil costs £'; echo OILPRICE; echo ' Per Litre <br />';
echo 'Spark plugs cost £'; echo SPARKPRICE; echo' each';

//Redirect user if they failed to input data
if( $totalqty == 0 )
{
header("Location: http://worldwidelighthouses.co.uk/Dannystestwebsite/error.php"); 
exit;}
//How customer found Dannys
echo '<hr />';
echo '<h3> How you found us: </h3>';
switch ($find)
{case 'a':
echo '<p> You&#39;re a loyal and regular customer! Thanks for your repeat custom! </p>';
break;
case 'b':
echo '<p> You were reffered by our TV advert! Stay tuned for more. </p>';
break;
case 'c':
echo '<p> You found us by internet advertisments, thanks for the click through!';
break;
case 'd':
echo '<p> You found out about us from a previous satisfied customer! Tell them thanks from us!';
break;	
}
echo '<br />';

//Dispatch Address
echo '<hr />';
echo '<h3> We will dispatch your order to </h3>';
echo $number.' ';
echo $street.'<br />';
echo $town.'<br />';
echo $county.'<br />';
echo $postcode.'<br />';
echo $country.'<br />';
echo '<br/>';
echo '<FORM METHOD="LINK" ACTION="php.php"><INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Done! Click to Finish"></FORM><br />';

$outputstring = $date."\t".$tireqty." tires \t".$oilqty." oil \t".$sparkqty." Spark plugs\t"."They found us by".$find."\t"."Dispatch order to".$number.$street.$town.$county.$postcode.$country."\n";

//Open File for Appending
@ $fp = fopen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/orders/orders.txt", 'ab');

if (!fp)
{
echo'<p><strong>Your Order Could Not Be Processed at This Time. Please Try Again Later</strong></html>';
exit;
}

fwrite($fp, $outputstring, strlen($outputstring));
fclose($fp);

echo'<p>order written</p>';

?>
</div>
</div>
<div id="Footer">Copyright Danny Brown <?php echo date("Y"); ?></div>
</body>
</html>

kickstart · August 15, 2010

Hi

First thing, suspect you mean to check $fp for false after opening the file.

I would echo out the full file name to check it is where you expect it to be.

All the best

Keith

ActaNonVerba1 · August 15, 2010

Hi

First thing, suspect you mean to check $fp for false after opening the file.

I would echo out the full file name to check it is where you expect it to be.

All the best

Keith

Thanks for the help. But as this is literally my first go, can you explain how I would go about doing what you suggest? Thanks

kickstart · August 15, 2010

Hi

Think you have just missed the $ sign here:-

@ $fp = fopen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/orders/orders.txt", 'ab');

if (!$fp)

{

echo'Your Order Could Not Be Processed at This Time. Please Try Again Later</html>';

exit;

}

Also the @ operator suppresses errors. I would remove the @ for now to check the error messages it is coming back with.

All the best

Keith

ActaNonVerba1 · August 16, 2010

Hi

Think you have just missed the $ sign here:-

@ $fp = fopen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/orders/orders.txt", 'ab');

if (!$fp)

{

echo'Your Order Could Not Be Processed at This Time. Please Try Again Later</html>';

exit;

}

Also the @ operator suppresses errors. I would remove the @ for now to check the error messages it is coming back with.

All the best

Keith

Thanks for oyur help. But i still get a 500 error.

You can the form etc here. http://www.worldwidelighthouses.co.uk/dannystestwebsite/Php.php

I think there may be an issue with the output string, can you confirm this?

Thanks,

Danny.

kickstart · August 16, 2010

Hi

Just tried your code and for me it appears to work. However have you checked that the file name / directory is what you expect it to be and that the directory exists?

All the best

Keith

ActaNonVerba1 · August 16, 2010

Hi

Just tried your code and for me it appears to work. However have you checked that the file name / directory is what you expect it to be and that the directory exists?

All the best

Keith

Hmm, that is strange.

My file i wish to edit is in

Htdocs\DannysTestSite\Orders\Orders.txt

My "writefile.php"

is in

Htdocs\Dannystestsite\Writefile.php

So, does my code reflect that properly? :S

Getting Majorly confused now.

Thank you so much in advance for your help Much appreciated.

Danny.

kickstart · August 16, 2010

Hi

Echo out $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/orders/orders.txt" and double check it is what you expect.

All the best

Keith

ActaNonVerba1 · August 16, 2010

Hi

Echo out $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/orders/orders.txt" and double check it is what you expect.

All the best

Keith

I get this.

E:\Domains\w\worldwidelighthouses.co.uk\user\htdocs/orders/orders.txt

Seems about right

So why do i still get error 500? :S

ActaNonVerba1 · August 16, 2010

Hi

Echo out $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/orders/orders.txt" and double check it is what you expect.

All the best

Keith

I get this.

E:\Domains\w\worldwidelighthouses.co.uk\user\htdocs/orders/orders.txt

Seems about right

So why do i still get error 500? :S

Oh wait my bad, that isnt in the DannysTestSite Folder

So is Doicument root actually the root of my server?

I thought it would be the folder my Writefile is in?

:S

ActaNonVerba1 · August 16, 2010

Hi

Echo out $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/orders/orders.txt" and double check it is what you expect.

All the best

Keith

I get this.

E:\Domains\w\worldwidelighthouses.co.uk\user\htdocs/orders/orders.txt

Seems about right

So why do i still get error 500? :S

Oh wait my bad, that isnt in the DannysTestSite Folder

So is Doicument root actually the root of my server?

I thought it would be the folder my Writefile is in?

:S

Sorry to keep posting.

Ive just put the orders.txt in the location d:\ domains etc that i echo'd out.

And ive found it is posting to the orders.txt now as ive opened it and had a look.

However, the user using the form still gets a 500 message when they subm it the form :/

kickstart · August 16, 2010

Hi

Not sure why you are still getting the 500 error (assuming you meant e: not d: ).

Stuff I do is based on Windows servers where $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] is flakey. However it seems it has pointed to the root of you web server rather than the root of your site.

All the best

Keith

ActaNonVerba1 · August 16, 2010

Hi

Not sure why you are still getting the 500 error (assuming you meant e: not d: ).

Stuff I do is based on Windows servers where $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] is flakey. However it seems it has pointed to the root of you web server rather than the root of your site.

All the best

Keith

Yes i did mean E

And my Server is Windows based

I have no idea why i get 500 error either. Im instaling a local version of PHP so i cna check there.

Im only learning PHP so im not fussed about a real production environment, just wanna be able to have done it right so i can progress past chapter 2 of "PHP and MySQL Web Development" Lol.

Thanks a lot anyway

Danny.

ActaNonVerba1 · August 16, 2010

Hi

Not sure why you are still getting the 500 error (assuming you meant e: not d: ).

Stuff I do is based on Windows servers where $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] is flakey. However it seems it has pointed to the root of you web server rather than the root of your site.

All the best

Keith

Yes i did mean E

And my Server is Windows based

I have no idea why i get 500 error either. Im instaling a local version of PHP so i cna check there.

Im only learning PHP so im not fussed about a real production environment, just wanna be able to have done it right so i can progress past chapter 2 of "PHP and MySQL Web Development" Lol.

Thanks a lot anyway

Danny.

Dammit, works perfectly on my Localhost, must be a config.php issue. And i cant edit that on fast hosts :/

kickstart · August 16, 2010

Hi

I tend to just use relative addresses which avoid this problem.

All the best

Keith

ActaNonVerba1 · August 16, 2010

Hi

I tend to just use relative addresses which avoid this problem.

All the best

Keith

How do i do a relative address then?

I thought document_root was for a realtive address, seens as its not absolute like http://domain.com/file.extension ?

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