append text at next line 2

[kurie]

how do i appaned text at a new line in php.
my code is below but its appending on the same line. does anyone know how to fix this.

$myFile = "testFile.csv";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = $Message.",".$value.",".$Company."<br>";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
//$stringData = "New Stuff 2\n";
//fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

 

[MJB3K]

have you tried replacing the <br> with a \n or a \r or \r\n?

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[jpadie]

you also might prefer to use file_put_contents.

$myFile = "testFile.csv";
file_put_contents($myFile, $Message.",".$value.",".$Company . "\r\n", FILE_APPEND);

or even better in this case, fputcsv

$fh = fopen($myFile, 'abt') or die("can't open file");
$return = fputcsv($fh, array($Message, $Value, $Company), ',', '"');
if ($return === false) die ('cannot write to the file');
fclose($fh);

 

[kurie]

thanks guys, both solutions worked for me.

 

[jpadie]

although i don't know what is in the $Message etc variables, i strongly suggest that you use the fputcsv method or enquote each field in double quotes in order to conform to the standard csv. otherwise if one of the variables has a comma in it, you're screwed.

 

[kurie]

thanks very much jpadie, i never thought about that. Yes changes are very high that message will contain a comma.


---otherwise if one of the variables has a comma in it, you're screwed