PHP write to file

[urtwithac]

Hey, i'm having a bit of trouble with a form i created in flash, having the PHP process the variables and send them to a text file, that i can then read.

I have got somewhere atleast...

Name: Undefined Address: Undefined

are what i get in my text file on my server, not what is actually typed in the form fields.

If anyone could tell me why it's doing this, it'd be appriciated.

Here's my code:
PHP:
[code]<?php
$content = "Name:".$_POST["name"]." Address:".$_POST["address"];
$fp = fopen("myText.txt","wb");
fwrite($fp,$content);
fclose($fp);
?>[/code]

[Jessica]

address is probably misspelled in your form.
do print_r($_POST) to see what post vars exist.

[urtwithac]

Hey and thanks for the reply.

What do you mean exactly?

I've not really done much with PHP except the odd e-mail form, most of my work is done in Action Script in Flash.

Where am i going to be needing to change the PHP code?

[Orio]

Can you show us the form?

Orio.

[urtwithac]

Here's the code that's on my submit button,

my fields each have their own variable names:
name
address

[code]
on (release) {
writeLVs = new LoadVars();
writeLVs.name = Name.text;
writeLVs.address = Address.text;
writeLVs.send("writeData.php?uniqueID="+getTimer(),writeLVs,"$_POST");
}
[/code]

[Jessica]

$content = "Name:".$_POST["name"]." Address:".$_POST["address"];
Name and Address must be capitalized, as that's how you did it in your flash. PHP is case-sensitive.
Change to:
$content = "Name:".$_POST["Name"]." Address:".$_POST["Address"];

[urtwithac]

Thanks, i just tried it, but i'm still getting "Undefined" instead of the text that has been input.

Regards,


Curt.

[Orio]

I know nothing about flash, but I've made some googling .
Are you sure it's supposed to be: [code]writeLVs.send("writeData.php?uniqueID="+getTimer(),writeLVs,"$_POST");[/code]
And not
[code]writeLVs.send("writeData.php?uniqueID="+getTimer(),writeLVs,"POST");[/code]

Orio.

[urtwithac]

I've tried that too, but no luck.

Thanks for the replies guys :)

[urtwithac]

I've had a bit of luck.

I changed the instance names to Name.text and Address.text on my submit button.


Now i no longer get "[i]Undefined[/i]" in my text file.

I just get:

Name: Address:

Thanks guys.

Curt.

[JasonLewis]

i have used flash and know a tad about sending data from flash to php. from my experience it should be just POST not $_POST. they must have an instance name that flash will read and a var name that PHP can read.
and  what your doing there, using the LoadVars will load information from a  PHP file. your actionscript should look like this:

[code]
on(release){

var name = name; //these need to be defined for php
var address = address; //these need to be defined for php

getURL("writeData.php?uniqueID="+getTimer(), "_parent", "POST"); //the sending of the info. _parent is what window it opens in
}
[/code]

hope that works for you.

[urtwithac]

I'm affraid not, i'm getting exactly the same output, just Name: Address:

PHP is not my thing, if you hadn't guessed. heh

I really need to get this working though.

Thanks for all of the help.

[JasonLewis]

are you sure it didnt work. i tried it myself and it worked fine.make sure your text fields are Input Fields, make sure they have an instance name and a var. i have it working for me.

[urtwithac]

I can't figure out why it isn't working, they're input fields, have both var and instance names.

Although i'm getting "Name: Address:" in my text file, could it be permissions with CHMOD?

i don't know. i'm out of ideas.

Maybe i have the wrong instance and var names.

Thanks again,


Curt.