Hello everyone, I'm new here.
I am thinking of trying to set up a very simple form for people to preregister to an upcoming event. This to save the time; the alternative is to create a gmail account and have people send emails to that.
Anyway, I am an beginner PHP programmer, but I have a lot of experience with object oriented programming in general (mostly C and c++). I think I'll be able to pick up the language fairly quickly. I'm looking for some help getting started here.
Here's what I've got in mind. I would create some simple html form where people put their name, age and number of guests they are bringing. Something like:
<form action="action.php" method="post">
<p>Your name: <input type="text" name="name" /></p>
<p>Your age: <input type="text" name="age" /></p>
<p>Number of guests: <input type="text" name="guests" /></p>
<p><input type="submit" /></p>
</form>
Then I would somehow need to to send that data to a file (a text file would be fine) and add that person's information to the file. How would I accomplish this? I know I would probably need to use the functions fopen(), fread(), fwrite() feof(), fclose() and the test functions file_exists() and is_writable(). I already have web hosting set up.
Any help would be great!