I'm passing variables from my Flash MP3 player to a PHP script to record what songs have played. Now I want the PHP script to display one varable and include it in an Amazon link.
This is what I have but can't seem to get it to work.
<?php
$var1 = $_POST['var1']; //get the Artist Name and Title from Flash and store it in a PHP variable
$var2 = $_POST['var2']; //ignored
//This lines combines the two variables into one string.
//To concatinate vars in PHP use a period or dot ".", much like Flash uses a plus sign "+".
$add = $var1 . "+" . $var2 . "|";
//opens or creates (if it doesn't already exist) our text file (songsplayed.txt)
//for writing (not reading) and places the pointer at the end.
$open = fopen('songsplayed.txt', 'a');
//writes to our specified file our string
$write = fwrite($open, $add);
echo $var1;
echo
<a type="amzn" search=\"$var1\" category="music">
<img border="0" src="/buttons/buy-now-button-amazon.png" alt="Buy now @ Amazon"></a>
?>
You seem to be trying to echo HTML to the page without surrounding it with quotes. Try this instead:
<?php
$var1 = $_POST['var1']; //get the Artist Name and Title from Flash and store it in a PHP variable
$var2 = $_POST['var2']; //ignored
//This lines combines the two variables into one string.
//To concatinate vars in PHP use a period or dot ".", much like Flash uses a plus sign "+".
$add = $var1 . "+" . $var2 . "|";
//opens or creates (if it doesn't already exist) our text file (songsplayed.txt)
//for writing (not reading) and places the pointer at the end.
$open = fopen('songsplayed.txt', 'a');
//writes to our specified file our string
$write = fwrite($open, $add);
echo $var1;
?>
<a type="amzn" search="<?php echo $var1; ?>" category="music">
<img border="0" src="/buttons/buy-now-button-amazon.png" alt="Buy now @ Amazon"></a>
You can try this;
<?php
// minimal xss protection
$var1 = htmlentities($_POST['var1'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
$var2 = htmlentities($_POST['var2'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
// one-line append
file_put_contents('songsplayed.txt', sprintf("%s+%s
", $var1, $var2));
// proper echo'ing
echo $var1,
'<a type="amzn" search="'. $var1 .'" category="music">',
'<img border="0" src="/buttons/buy-now-button-amazon.png" alt="Buy now @ Amazon"></a>';
?>