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**Miki** · 11-06-2005, 12:24 PM

Hi everyone. I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to PHP and was wondering if you could help me.

On my site, I'm making a page about me, and I would like it to display my current mood. I would like it to be easyly updateable.

I would like it done using a form, PHP and mySQL (unless there is another, easyer way).

So for example, I tick a box in a form that says I'm in an angry mood. That then saves that information to a database and when someone loads the page, it gets that information and displays an image accordingly.

If you do not make the script, please will you give me a link to something that could possibly help? (Before you say anything, I HAVE tryed Googling it for like an hour now, and havnt found any useful results.)

I think PHP would be the best way to do this. I'm not sure about that though. I might be making things over-complicated for myself.

Thank you in advance,
from MIKI

**Orodreth** · 11-06-2005, 01:22 PM

Well, that's not to hard. All you have to do is to save the text from the form in a file (e.g. "mood.txt"), then read it again.

Example:
Form page:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
if($_POST['mood']){
  $file=fopen('mood.txt', 'w');
  if(fwrite($file, $_POST['mood']))
    echo 'Mood saved successfully<br/>';
  else
    echo 'Failed to save mood<br/>';
  fclose($file);
}
?>
<form action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="POST">
  New Mood: <input type="text">
</form>
</body>
</html>

The script to read from it would be:

PHP Code:


			
<?php
$mood = fread('mood.txt', filesize('mood.txt'));
echo $mood;
?>

I hope this helps.