chloebyte Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 (edited) For some reason its not saving input to the text file. <form action="edit.php" method="post"> <textarea Name="update" cols="50" rows="10"></textarea>Enter text here<br/> <input type="submit" value="update"/> </form> <?php $_POST['update']; $file1 = "file.txt"; $file = fopen($file1, "w+"); $contents = file_get_contents($file1); file_put_contents($file1, $contents); if($_POST['update']) fwrite($file, $file1); fclose($file); ?> anyone know why?;/ Edited November 17, 2015 by chloebyte Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/299504-text-editor-save-to-file/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Ch0cu3r Posted November 17, 2015 Solution Share Posted November 17, 2015 1) You have not assigned this $_POST['update']; to a variable. I presume that line is meant to read as $update = $_POST['update']; 2) Open the file use append mode $file = fopen($file1, "a"); Then there is no need for this $contents = file_get_contents($file1); file_put_contents($file1, $contents); 3) fwrite takes the file handler as the first argument and the value to be written as the second argument (needs to be $update not $file1) fwrite($file, $update); The alternative is not use fopen/fwrite/fclose but to use only file_put_content using the FILE_APPEND flag if(isset($_POST['update'])) { $file = "file.txt"; $update = $_POST['update']; file_put_contents($file, $update, FILE_APPEND); // append $update the file.txt } Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/299504-text-editor-save-to-file/#findComment-1526585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chloebyte Posted November 17, 2015 Author Share Posted November 17, 2015 1) You have not assigned this $_POST['update']; to a variable. I presume that line is meant to read as $update = $_POST['update']; 2) Open the file use append mode $file = fopen($file1, "a"); Then there is no need for this $contents = file_get_contents($file1); file_put_contents($file1, $contents); 3) fwrite takes the file handler as the first argument and the value to be written as the second argument (needs to be $update not $file1) fwrite($file, $update); The alternative is not use fopen/fwrite/fclose but to use only file_put_content using the FILE_APPEND flag if(isset($_POST['update'])) { $file = "file.txt"; $update = $_POST['update']; file_put_contents($file, $update, FILE_APPEND); // append $update the file.txt } Thank you very much! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/299504-text-editor-save-to-file/#findComment-1526587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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