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How can I get my results from an html form to be outputted on a separate php file?


liamdoch

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Hi, 

When the user creates a contact, then edits the contact that final edited information is shown in a file called "my data.txt". After this, when I select my php file "save_contact_details.php" the details stored in the text file  "my data.txt" are not retrieved. How can I retrieve them? At the moment the issue I'm having is that I see no data when I click on  "save_contact_details.php" after I filled in all the contact persons information. 

Feel free to watch this video I recorded to help you understand what I am talking about. https://streamable.com/rbw6p

save_contact_details.php code

   <html>
       <body>
          <?php
             $myFile=fopen("mydata.txt","r") or exit("Can’t open file!");
             // Write each line of text into the text file file
                 fwrite($myFile, $_POST["lastname"]."\r\n");
                 fwrite($myFile, $_POST["firstname"]."\r\n");
                 fwrite($myFile, $_POST["address01"]."\r\n");
                 fwrite($myFile, $_POST["address02"]."\r\n");
                 fwrite($myFile, $_POST["town"]."\r\n");
                 fwrite($myFile, $_POST["postcode"]."\r\n");
                 fwrite($myFile, $_POST["telephone"]."\r\n");
                 fwrite($myFile, $_POST["email"]."\r\n");
                 fclose($myFile);
             ?>
          <h1>My Contact Details</h1>
          <p>The contact details that you have submitted are shown below:</p>
          <table>
             <tr>
                <td align="right">Last name: </td>
                <td><?php echo $_POST["lastname"]; ?></td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
                <td align="right">First name: </td>
                <td><?php echo $_POST["firstname"]; ?></td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
                <td align="right">Address 01: </td>
                <td><?php echo $_POST["address01"]; ?></td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
                <td align="right">Address 02: </td>
                <td><?php echo $_POST["address02"]; ?></td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
                <td align="right">Town / city: </td>
                <td><?php echo $_POST["town"]; ?></td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
                <td align="right">Post code: </td>
                <td><?php echo $_POST["postcode"]; ?></td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
                <td align="right">Telephone: </td>
                <td><?php echo $_POST["telephone"]; ?></td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
                <td align="right">E-mail: </td>
                <td><?php echo $_POST["email"]; ?></td>
             </tr>
          </table>
       </body>
    </html>


edit_contact_details.php code

    <html>
        <body>
            <?php
            $myFile=fopen("mydata.txt","r") or exit("Can’t open file!");
            // read each line of text from the text file
            $lastname = fgets($myFile);
            $firstname = fgets($myFile);
            $address01 = fgets($myFile);
            $address02 = fgets($myFile);
            $town = fgets($myFile);
            $postcode = fgets($myFile);
            $telephone = fgets($myFile);
            $email = fgets($myFile);
            fclose($myFile);
    ?>
    <h1>My Contact Details</h1>
      <p>
        The contact details on file are as shown below.<br>
        Edit the data and save your changes to file.
      </p>
      <form action="save_contact_details.php" method="post">
      <table>
        <tr>
          <td align="right">Last name: </td><td>
          <?php echo "<input size=\"20\" type=\"text\" name=\"lastname\" value=\"$lastname\">"?>
          </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td align="right">First name: </td><td>
          <?php echo "<input size=\"20\" type=\"text\" name=\"firstname\" value=\"$firstname\">"?>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td align="right">Address 01: </td><td>
          <?php echo "<input size=\"30\" type=\"text\" name=\"address01\" value=\"$address01\">"?>
        </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td align="right">Address 02: </td><td>
                    <?php echo "<input size=\"30\" type=\"text\" name=\"address02\" value=\"$address02\">"?>
          </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td align="right">Town / city: </td><td>
          <?php echo "<input size=\"20\" type=\"text\" name=\"town\" value=\"$town\">"?>
        </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td align="right">Post code: </td><td>
          <?php echo "<input size=\"10\" type=\"text\" name=\"postcode\" value=\"$postcode\">"?>
        </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td align="right">Telephone: </td><td>
          <?php echo "<input size=\"15\" type=\"text\" name=\"telephone\" value=\"$telephone\">"?>
          </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td align="right">E-mail: </td><td>
          <?php echo "<input size=\"50\" type=\"text\" name=\"email\" value=\"$email\">"?>
          </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td> </td>
          <td colspan="2" align="left"><input type="submit" value="Save Changes"></td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      </form>
      </body>
    </html>

create contact html code

    <html>
    <body>
    <h1>The contact details</h1>
    <p>Please enter your contact details:</p>
    <form action="save_contact_details.php" method="post">
      <table>
        <tr>
          <td align="right">First name: </td>
          <td><input size="20" type="text"  maxlength="15" name="firstname"></td>
        </tr>
         <tr>
          <td align="right">Last name: </td>
          <td><input size="20" type="text"  maxlength="15" name="lastname"></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td align="right">Address line 1: </td>
          <td><input size="30" type="text"  maxlength="50" name="address01"></td>
    </tr>
     <tr>
          <td align="right">Address line 2: </td>
          <td><input size="30" type="text"  maxlength="50" name="address02"></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td align="right">Town / city: </td>
          <td><input size="20" type="text"  maxlength="20" name="town"></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td align="right">Post code: </td>
          <td><input size="10" type="text"  maxlength="10" name="postcode"></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td align="right">Telephone: </td>
          <td><input size="15" type="text" size="20" maxlength="15" name="telephone"></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td align="right">E-mail: </td>
          <td><input size="50" type="text"  maxlength="50" name="email"></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td> </td>
          <td colspan="2" align="left"><input type="submit" value="Submit"></td>
        </tr>
      </table>
    </form>
    </body>
    </html>

 

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http://formcontact.esy.es as every script works the save_contact_details.php code has to be incorrect. 
 

10 minutes ago, benanamen said:

Unless this is just to learn the basics of file reading and writing do not store your data in a text file. At minimum use SQLite.

In relation to your post, I'm just a beginner and this is for a task assigned to me. Thanks for the advice, I'll bare that in mind for the future. 

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