Oh Jacque, you’ve been so kind to me over Zygodact and other things, and I’ve been so slow, that I didn’t dare ask! However, you are of course spot on. Thanks.
Graham > On 19 Sep 2016, at 23:43, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > > On 9/19/16 3:15 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: >> I have a .lc script on the server that invokes Jacque Gay’s Zygodact >> product to generate license codes, which are then passed on to the >> payment processor. This works fine. However when a code is generated, >> it would be prudent to keep it in a file which is on the server. So I >> want to add a few lines of code to the aforesaid .lc script so that >> each code goes into a text file. > > That's easy, I do it with all my Zygodact server scripts. The main thing to > be aware of is that the text file needs to have read/write permissions. I > couldn't generate a file from scratch because of the permission issues (I'm > sure there's a way around this, but I didn't know how.) So what I do is > create an empty text file on the server and give it read/write permissions > (755) manually using Fetch or any other FTP app. I put the file directly in > the CGI folder, which is inaccessible to visitors. > > After that, just add this handler to your .lc script: > > on log pData > put "myLog.txt" into tFile > open file tFile for append > write pData &cr & cr to file tFile > close file tFile > end log > > Then in the main body of the script, collect the data you want to store into > a variable and add a "log dataVar" line. > > The reason I use open/write/close instead of "put after URL" is because > opening a file for append doesn't need to read the whole thing into memory > and then write it all back out again. It seems like a better use of resources. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
