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Comment on Simple PHP Flat File Shoutbox by Bladymir

Bladymir — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:36:03 +0000

Hey Dennis,

Yesterday I updated read.php, theres an extra if inserted. Refer to the code above, look for the additional code around line 15:
// Check to see if the line was more than a single element. if (count($parts) > 1) {....}

Comment on Simple PHP Flat File Shoutbox by Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:25:45 +0000

i have been testing the shoutbox on a test page before i make it live and found that if i add a carriage return in the message input it adds the second line of text to a new output line on the top panel

this is how it came out on the shout box once posted:

This is the CArriage Return… (@01/01/1970 00:01)

Dennis (Tech Admin) (@01/02/2012 07:02) Test Example

any ideas how to fix this ?

regards

Comment on Simple PHP Flat File Shoutbox by dennis

dennis — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:45:58 +0000

cheers for that – worked a treat

ok another fix:

index.php

line 52: remove space between the > and < – makes 2 spaces in the message box when ppl go to post

Comment on Simple PHP Flat File Shoutbox by Bladymir

Bladymir — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:34:48 +0000

In read.php look for the line that says: $lines = explode(“\n”, $contents); (should be line 10)
and right after that add: $lines = array_reverse($lines);

This reverses the order of the array.

Comment on Simple PHP Flat File Shoutbox by Bladymir

Bladymir — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:30:49 +0000

Included your suggestion in the update. Thanks!

Comment on Simple PHP Flat File Shoutbox by Bladymir

Bladymir — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:30:17 +0000

Thanks for catching that. I updated the code. I also updated read.php to ignore lines that don’t have enough elements after being split, like blank lines(this was generating a notice).

Comment on Simple PHP Flat File Shoutbox by dennis

dennis — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:29:56 +0000

hi – yeah its me again

am having a small difficulty getting the output to read from the bottom of the scroller where the latest enrty is
or have the top of the scroller hold the latest entry

hope you can help on this one

thanks

Comment on Simple PHP Flat File Shoutbox by dennis

dennis — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:45:02 +0000

another small code change you may wish to implement:

open write.php

find around line 12:

a href=”http://’ . urlencode($postURL) . ‘”

change to:

a href=”http://’ . urlencode($postURL) . ‘” target=”_blank”

the dane link will now open in a new window rather than the same one closing the shoutbox

Comment on Simple PHP Flat File Shoutbox by dennis

dennis — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:50:13 +0000

Nice little script – i have found a small bug in the write.php:

$postingUser = ‘‘ . $postUser . ‘‘;
} else {
$postingUser = $postURL;
}

this bit:

$postingUser = $postURL;

should read

$postingUser = $postUser;

to give a name output without the website being input.

regards
Dennis

Comment on HTML Entities and Special Characters by Jack Dain

Jack Dain — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:24:07 +0000

Very interesting points you have mentioned, appreciate it for posting.