dbrimlow Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 After a long PHP layoff, I need to get back and start from scratch. I have a text file with hundreds of emails (2500 actually). I need to create a management form for the client to search and remove email when requested they be removed from the list. I could go Database, but I wanted to do this first. But it is not working. This should be elementary for most of you I'm sure. I think the problem has something to do with calling the form action. It doesn't write the txt file on submit <!-- sets the action for submit --> <?php if(isset($_POST['SaveEmail'])) { $open = fopen("testFile.txt","w+"); $text = $_POST['EditList']; fwrite($open, $text); fclose($open); echo "email list updated."; } ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>test create a file</title> </head> <body> <!-- opens the text file in a form text area --> <form method="post" enctype="text/plain"> <textarea id="FormsMultiLine3" name="EditList" rows="200" cols="79" style="width: 645px; white-space: pre;"> <?php $filename = "testFile.txt"; $fh = fopen($filename, "r+"); $data = fread($fh, filesize($filename)); fclose($fh); echo $data; ?> </textarea> <input type="submit" id="Button1" name="SaveEmail" value="SaveEmail" style="height: 24px; width: 57px;"> </form> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samshel Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 what is going wrong? what does the form submission do? empty the file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFMaBiSmAd Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Remove enctype="text/plain" from your form tag. It prevents form data from being submitted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbrimlow Posted February 13, 2009 Author Share Posted February 13, 2009 what is going wrong? what does the form submission do? empty the file? Whoa, sorry. I asked this question like a noob to posting! I have an email distribution list in a text file - call it testFile.txt - that simply lists 2500 emails. We use it to send html email flyers about apartments available. In the flyer is a link "to be removed from our list" that sends us an email. At present someone either downloads and opens the txt file in notepad, searches and removes the email, then uploads it back to the server, OR an admin edits the raw file on the server itself. I want a management form that reads testFile.txt into a form "textarea", allows manual editing, then on submit, saves the revised testFile.txt. The code I posted, opens the file, allows editing, but doesn't save the edited file on submit - it just reloads the original file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samshel Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 what permission does the file have? make it 777 and try. may be some issue with the rights... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFMaBiSmAd Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Echo $_POST['SaveEmail'] as a test, because like is said, enctype="text/plain" prevents the form data from being submitted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbrimlow Posted February 16, 2009 Author Share Posted February 16, 2009 Permission is 777, I removed enctype. The problem is that the testFile.txt is not being re-written to, submit is not sending textfield data - the page simply shows the same file on submit. I thought the problem would stand out as embarrassingly elementary. <?php if (isset($_POST['SaveEmail'])) { $open = fopen('testFile.txt','w+'); $text = $_POST['EditList']; fwrite($open, $text); fclose($open); echo "Gig list updated."; } ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>test create a file</title> </head> <body> <form action="<? $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post"> <p> <textarea id="FormsMultiLine3" name="EditList" rows="27" cols="79" style="width: 645px; white-space: pre;"> <?php $filename = "testFile.txt"; $fh = fopen($filename, "r+"); $data = fread($fh, filesize($filename)); fclose($fh); echo $data; ?> </textarea> </p> <p> <input type="submit" id="FormsButton1" name="SaveEmail" value="Save" style="height: 24px; width: 57px;"> </p> </form> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samshel Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Echo $_POST['SaveEmail'] as a test, because like is said, enctype="text/plain" prevents the form data from being submitted. did u try this ? or better var_dump($_POST); before your if condition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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