Hi, I've created a form on a Web page which allows a user to make comments and state any problems/issues.
At the moment, the forms logs the user issues to one long text file. I'd like it to log the issues to separate text files.

Any ideas how I can log each problem to separate text files and ensure that I don't overwrite any of the existing text files?

Here is the code so far, which logs to only 1 file so far. By the way, my Web space uses only PHP3.

ProcessForm.PHP:
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<?php

$myFileHandle = fopen('problem1.txt','a') or die("can't open file");

if (-1 == fwrite($myFileHandle,date("D j M Y g:i a").chr(10))) { die("can't write data"); }
if (-1 == fwrite($myFileHandle,$txtCompany.chr(10))) { die("can't write data"); }
if (-1 == fwrite($myFileHandle,$txtAddress.chr(10))) { die("can't write data"); }
if (-1 == fwrite($myFileHandle,$txtPhoneNumber.chr(10))) { die("can't write data"); }
if (-1 == fwrite($myFileHandle,$txtEmail.chr(10))) { die("can't write data"); }
if (-1 == fwrite($myFileHandle,$txtComments.chr(10))) { die("can't write data"); }
if (-1 == fwrite($myFileHandle,$txtProblem.chr(10))) { die("can't write data"); }
if (-1 == fwrite($myFileHandle,$txtProblemFound.chr(10))) { die("can't write data"); }
if (-1 == fwrite($myFileHandle,$txtReason.chr(10))) { die("can't write data"); }
if (-1 == fwrite($myFileHandle,$txtDateOfProblem.chr(10))) { die("can't write data"); }
if (-1 == fwrite($myFileHandle,$txtProblemCaused.chr(10))) { die("can't write data"); }
if (-1 == fwrite($myFileHandle,"-----".chr(10))) { die("can't write data"); }

fclose($myFileHandle) or die("can't close file");

?>
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Thanks for your suggestions,

May

How about storing the last incident number in a file called numbers.txt. Then each problem opening this file, reading the number, incrementing it, overwriting the existing file, then naming the problem file:
'problem'.$nextnum
which will give it the next number.

Or you could do it with dates. You could have a problems folder in your webspace and store files as:
yyyymmddhhmmss.txt
which would give you some more details on the error.

Thanks David!

I'll go with the dates method. I used fopen("problem".date( ),"a")

May

how about try using a mysql database and create a results page