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HELP me please

i am currently makeing a webpage and i have this displaied

<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr>
<td><div align="center"><font size="2"><strong><?php echo date("l, d-M-Y H:i:s T"); ?></strong></font></div></td>
<td><div align="center"><font size="2"><strong><?php echo "$REMOTE_ADDR"; ?></strong></font></div></td>
<td><div align="center"><font size="2"><strong><?php echo "$HTTP_USER_AGENT"; ?></strong></font></div></td>
</tr>
</table>

it shows the time ip and agent is there anyway to save that to a txt file like when some 1 goes to my page to save that "the results" to a txt file

Are you wanting to create something like a log file of that information for each person that visits the page? And end up with a text file something like?

time, ip, agent
time, ip, agent
time, ip, agent
time, ip, agent
time, ip, agent
time, ip, agent
time, ip, agent

yes but i cannot have a MySQL db because my host ipowerweb is bein a gerk so i have to have it in a .txt file for now

You don't have to have a db for this. If you are getting many visitors though this log file will grow very quickly and writing to a file can become much slower than using a db. Here is a simple script I threw together:

<?php
$file_name = "accesslog.txt";
$data = date("l, d-M-Y H:i:s T").",".$REMOTE_ADDR.",".$HTTP_USER_AGENT."\n";

$file_pointer = fopen($file_name, "a");
$lock = flock($file_pointer, LOCK_EX);

if ($lock){
fputs($file_pointer, $data);
flock($file_pointer, LOCK_UN);
}
fclose($file_pointer);
?>

Enjoy

gerk - splendid terminology :) says so much

side notes: You'll need chmod permissions set for the folder with
the text file in it - if you get a 'permission denied' you'd need to
change the chmod.

To get the values back out in a nice table

echo '<table width="100%" border="0">';
$iplist = fopen('accesslog.txt');
if(file_exists($iplist)) {
$fp = fopen($iplist,"r");
while($tdata = fgetcsv ($fp, 1000, ",")) {
echo '<tr>
<td><div align="center"><font size="2"><strong>'.$tdata[0].'</strong></font></div></td>

<td><div align="center"><font size="2"><strong>'.$tdata[1].'</strong></font></div></td>

<td><div align="center"><font size="2"><strong>'.$tdata[2].'</strong></font></div></td>

</tr>';
}
fclose ($fp);
echo '</table>';

without the dodgy linebreaks - no prizes for guessing who forgot
the ol' [ php] and [ /php] surrounds.

As spooks says - that file can get real large real quick so be
careful.