.dat file is ...? 99 Responses

Last post: 1 month, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: Jun 30, 08, 3:26 a.m.

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• Dancer

  before I start: I am not that experienced with PHP and server side management.

  I have been asked to set up a page that has a newsletter sign up form.

  This will literally be a single input field and a submit button.

  The one I am using: http://francisbooth.com/design/w…

  I have gone to change the code so it works for me but am stumped when I need to change:
  'emailSignup.dat'; // file to write to

  Should this be a database name? Table name?

  Any help would be great, or a link to a simple sign up form.

  Thanks

  Jun 30, 08, 3:26 a.m. – Permalink

• Fariska

  Not sure, but .dat files are pretty generic ones: they can be videos
  or just data (of almost all kind) storage files.

  

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  Dog-earJun 30, 08, 4:07 a.m. – Permalink

• Dancer

  So a text file or something?

  

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  Dog-earJun 30, 08, 4:10 a.m. – Permalink

• Fariska

  Kind of:
  http://filext.com/file-extension…

  

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  Dog-earJun 30, 08, 4:12 a.m. – Permalink

• neave

  It's data. Very important data you shouldn't be messin' with.

  

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  Dog-earJun 30, 08, 5:10 a.m. – Permalink

• Mojo

  .dat could be anything.It's not 'owned' by any particularly company.

  

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  Dog-earJun 30, 08, 5:24 a.m. – Permalink

• fugged

  Without seeing the php, i couldn't tell ya - but I'll bet it's just a delimited text file. Create an empty text file named emailSignup.dat text file, put in the correct directory and then set permissions to make it writable. To do that, just telnet in and issue a chmod command: chmod 777 emailSignup.dat. Then give it a test and see what gets written to the file.

  

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  Dog-earJun 30, 08, 5:25 a.m. – Permalink

• Dancer

  ok
  trying now

  

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  Dog-earJun 30, 08, 5:40 a.m. – Permalink

• Dancer

  the only thing I was getting wrong was setting the chmod to 777 - completely forgot that you had to fo that.

  Well IT WORKS!!!

  Thanks fugged

  

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  Dog-earJun 30, 08, 5:49 a.m. – Permalink

• fugged

  no worries Dancer - glad it's workin'.

  

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  Dog-earJun 30, 08, 5:53 a.m. – Permalink