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Answer 1

+1 A:

I'm not really sure what you are asking for, but is it something like this?

<table>
    <tr><td> .... </td></tr>
    <?php
        foreach ($logitems as $item)
        {
            echo "<tr><td>" . $value . "</td></tr>\n";
        }
    ?>
</table>

Natrium 2009-09-11 08:28:35

This seems a bit more sane, but it seemed that the question was how to append to a static file. If creating a static file is not necessary, this this is a far better method (IMO) than what I've offered in my answer.

Tim Lytle 2009-09-11 08:36:05

something along the lines of $f = fopen("file.html", "w"); fwrite($f, <code>); fclose($f); would output the PHP to a static page, no?

Chris Sobolewski 2009-09-11 19:21:49

Answer 2

+2 A:

I'd suggest creating the log file with just the table rows, then including it in the file with the needed header and footer.

So you would write to 'log.html', but view 'log.php' which would be:

<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body>
    <table>
      <?php include('log.html') ?>
    </table>
  </body>
</html>

Of course, perhaps a better way would be to store the log data without html (in a flat file or database) then generate the view on demand. But for what you're looking for, the above should work.

If it all must be in a static file, you could use

bool ftruncate ( resource $handle , int $size )

to remove the last line of the file. Just make sure you know how long the 'footer' is. Here's some example code that might work for you.

$footer = "</table></html>";
$file = fopen($log_file, 'rw');
ftruncate($file, strlen($footer));
fseek($file, 0, SEEK_END);
fputs($file, $log);
fputs($file, $footer);
fclose($file);

Here's the ftruncate function documentation.

Tim Lytle 2009-09-11 08:32:12

Both are good answers; I guess I forgot to mention that I need it as a static .html file as it may be passed thru emails to others. The intent is not really to have a log viewer.

Extrakun 2009-09-11 08:41:28

you can change the .php to .htm by using htaccess: http://www.tutorial5.com/content/view/160/85/

Natrium 2009-09-11 08:52:17

If static is a must, then the second example should be what you're looking for. But if the server is *serving* the file people e-mail, it shouldn't matter either way, they'll get a complete HTML file.

Tim Lytle 2009-09-11 14:57:14

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