Writting text area to a txt file

[qaq0]

I was wondering how you could write a text file from a text area. The text area must display the text that was written before and have a submit button.

[Rottingham]

In simplest terms as your question was...

 

<form name="test" action="test.php" method="post">
<input type="textarea" name="test_text">Some Fun with Words!</textarea>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

test.php
<?

// Test for form submittal
if(isset($_REQUEST["submit"]))
{
     $text = $_REQUEST["test_text"];
    
     $file_h = fopen("yourfilepath/text.txt", "w");
     
     fwrite($file_h, $text, strlen($text));

     fclose();

     // All Done! Thank your user for their gracious input.
}

?>

[qaq0]

Thanks

[DeathStar]

i wondered if this code example can be edited to input data to a spicific place in txt file ex.

 

mysql_connect ("first_textarea") and so on..

 

or maybe just mak it already in the file(php one) ??

[Rottingham]

Deathstar,

 

I didn't really understand the question you are asking. If you mean you have multiple chunks of text, and you want to insert them into the file, that is possible.

 

If you knew the specific place in the text file you wanted to insert, you would change the files beginning pointer using fseek().

 

For instance, if the file was 2000 bytes large, and you wanted to insert your text at the middle of the file, you would do this:

 

// Move file pointer to middle of the file
fseek($file_h, 1000);

// Write in the data
fwrite($file_h, $test, strlen($text));

// Close file
fclose($file_h);

[taps]

Create a file in your directory called test.txt inside write what you want.

Create a file called edit2area.php or how you want call it.

 

<?php
$file = "test.txt"; // insert your filename or url here
if (!isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$fo = fopen($file, "r");
$fr = fread($fo, filesize($file));

echo "<form method='post' action='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}'>
<textarea name='newfile' rows='10' cols='50'>{$fr}</textarea>
<p>
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Save' />
</form>";
fclose($fo);
}
else
{
$fo = fopen($file, "w");
$fw = fwrite($fo, $_POST['newfile']);

fclose($fo);
}
?>

[DeathStar]

I wondered because i wanted to make an installer kind of thing?

 

and then it would just input spicific things.

localhost db_name and so on..

on spicific place in the text file .