lailai 0 Report post Posted April 7, 2008 With this tutorial, you will learn how to create a simple shoutbox, but only uses a .txt file. Also with auto refresh, and I am going to do a backgound. We will be making 5 files. 1. index.php The main page 2. msg.php Reading msg.txt 3. msg.txt Note: You must give it 777 4. shout.php Where it add to msg.txt 5. bg.gif Background. Index.php would be like this: <html><head><title>Shoutbox</title></head><body><iframe src="msg.php" marginwidth="1" marginheight="0" height="200"width="153" border="0" frameborder="0"></iframe><FORM name="shout" action="shout.php" method="POST">Name:<br><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" name="name" size="20"><br>Message:<br><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" name="message" size="20"><br><br><INPUT TYPE="Submit" name="submit" value="Shout!" size="20"></FORM></body></html>Let's go over what the code do.<html> -> <body> are just the title. <iframe> gets msg.php which gets msg.txt. You will know why I do that later. <FORM> -> </FORM> is where you can type what you want to shout. Now let's make the msg.php! </body> </html> linenums:0'><html><head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="8;url=msg.php" /></head><body><?php include('msg.txt'); ?></body></html>I shouldn't really explan this.Meta refresh the page every 8 sec. <?php include gets msg.txt. I did this was for it won't refresh the whole page, as if it refresh while typing it will rub out the msg. Just make a msg.txt with 777. And for shout.php: $message = $_POST['message']; $code = array( '/ linenums:0'><?php$name = $_POST['name'];$message = $_POST['message'];$code = array( '/:\)/', '/:P/', '/:D/'//Bla bla bla);$image = array( '<img src="smileys/1.gif">', '<img src="smileys/2.gif">', '<img src="smileys/3.gif">'// Bla bla bla);$formatted = preg_replace($code, $image, $message);$tag = ("<font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><b>$name:</b>$message</font><br>");$read = fopen("content.txt", "r");$contents = fread($read, filesize('content.txt'));fclose($read);$write = fopen("content.txt", "w");fwrite($write, "$tag $contents");fclose($write);print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;index.php\">";?> I made a little smiley feature, and you can use it for bb codes like [heading] turns to <h2> and stuff.Hope you enjoyed the tut! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
datanizze 0 Report post Posted June 8, 2008 (edited) OMFG, this was so helful, Even without any PHP-programming skills, I managed to add some new smilieys and get it to work according to my wishes , very easy-to-understand tutorial with fast result.only problem I had was that there was no space between two posts. however, I managed to fix this, but it was not in any of these files frome this tutorial, i got to change css-files, create new css-files and edit some other HTML-code.Once again, GREAT tutorial! you made my understanding for PHP bigger now too....but there is ONE thing. how do I make a check so that the user did type in a message, so i don't get empty messages (SPAM)?? Edited June 8, 2008 by datanizze (see edit history) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StaticIp 0 Report post Posted June 17, 2008 My browser tries to save the .php file every time I press shout Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pasten 0 Report post Posted June 21, 2008 My browser tries to save the .php file every time I press shoutYou are probably running it from your computer without php installed. You can download software like Easy PHP, WAMP. Just search them on google.Then copy those files to something like www or htdocs in the installation folder and run the server. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
minimcmonkey 0 Report post Posted June 25, 2008 Nice tutorial, havent used it yet, but i must! as i havent done any PHP for a long time, and intend to do some more before i start creating my new website!Nice thread! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Forbez 0 Report post Posted June 25, 2008 Nice and simple, I love it. You really put a lot of care into this tutorial. Well done mate. I may be using this myself sometime.Perhaps you could post some suggested different CSS styles for this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lailai 0 Report post Posted July 21, 2008 Thanks guys. Some guy has stole my tut, so I need to get that fixed before posting more tuts here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted October 2, 2008 Hi I loved your code, but I cant get it to work, I put in name and message and than my screen and browser goes nuts and just keeps refreshing realy fast, it gave me somekind of area at first but than went nuts, now know area shows - just constant refreshing white screen, and I am usung wamp server! php and all woks on my server but cant get this towork, pleasehelp or send me working code!-reply by Darc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted October 31, 2009 I have found how to auto refresh some elements of page for several days. When reading your post, I solved my problem. It is really great. Thank U very much -reply by Thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
