storing some information into a text file using PHP. 1

[rossmcl]

Hi

I am brand new to PHP, trying to do something very quickly so I can store some basic information on visitors hitting my site. I have no idea about PHP, and have strung the below very quickly (and amateurishly) together.

But I am getting errors (surprisingly enough!)

I would REALLY appreciate if someone could take a quick perusal and debug for me. It will take me several hours of reading php.net to work out what is wrong, but I am sure one of you can do it in minutes!! Not trying to be lazy, honest guvnor...but my 'talents' lie elsewhere...!

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<?php
$filename = &quot;PHPStoreVisitorInfo.txt&quot;;
$handle = fopen ($filename, &quot;a+&quot;

$todaydate = strval((date(&quot;m.d.y&quot);
$todaytime = strval(time())
$visitorInfo = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR'] \r\n ;

fwrite( $handle, $todaydate + $todaytime + $visitorInfo );
fclose( $handle );
?>

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All I want to do is concatentate strings for todays date AND todays time AND the IP address from visitors remote machine, and put it into a row in a text file. Then I want to create a new line (I believe the \r\n does that, so that next time I come back to the txt file, I will be appending a new line to the txt file (I believe the a+ in file open function will take me to this new line (?)

As I say, any help in debugging this for me would be very much appreciated. Dont want to spend ages learning PHP, when its only a very simple thing I need to be able to do with PHP for my website (at the moment). In the meantime, would prefer to leave it to the experts...YOU!

Thanks
RM

 

[sleipnir214]

PHP's string concatenation operator is &quot;.&quot;, not &quot;+&quot;.

Since date() can return both the date and time (using a format like &quot;Y-m-d H:i:s&quot; will return &quot;2003-12-15 16:56:00&quot;, for example) in a single string, you don't need to invoke time().

The use of strval() with date() is unnecessary -- date() returns a string. strval() is unnecessary under most situations because PHP is pretty good at type casting.

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