Writing to file from a form

[Zellenny]

Hi,

 

i'm a noob, so here's a noobish question:

 

How can i crate a form, with a button so when it is clicked, letters from a form are writen to a file... Like this:

 

 

So i write something to it, click Submit and the txt is saved to a name.txt file on a server...

 

Is that hard to do?

 

Thanks!

[MadTechie]

something like this

 

<?php
// Gets data from form
$your_data = $_GET('formdata');

// Open the file and erase the contents if any
$fp = fopen("textfile_name.txt", "w");

// Write the data to the file
fwrite($fp, $your_data);

// Close the file
fclose($fp);
?>

 

remember we help you with your code we don't write it for you.

[Glyde]

something like this

 

<?php
// Gets data from form
$your_data = $_GET('formdata');

// Open the file and erase the contents if any
$fp = fopen("textfile_name.txt", "w");

// Write the data to the file
fwrite($fp, $your_data);

// Close the file
fclose($fp);
?>

 

remember we help you with your code we don't write it for you.

$_GET('formdata') should be $_GET['formdata']

[MadTechie]

LOL hence my signature lol but yeah missed that one

[Topsy Turvey]

Hi there,

 

I am a bit thick in the head and I can't work out why the following script writes the "||||||"s and the date to a text file but misses out the variables.

 

I am not getting any error messages...Any help would be much appreciated!!

 

Actually, I don't think the $_POSTs are recognised at all:

 

 

<?php

 

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

if (empty($_POST['title'])) {

echo '<p class="error">Please enter a title<br />'; }

elseif (empty($_POST['news'])) {

echo '<p class="error">Please enter some news<br />'; }

} else {

// Setup and save the news item

 

//$line = $_POST['title'];

//$line .= "||".$_POST['user'];

//$line .= "||".$_POST['news'];

//$line .= "||".date('D m.d.y h:i:s A')."\r\n";

 

$title = $_POST['title'];

$user = $_POST['user'];

$news = $_POST['news'];

 

$line = $title;

$line .= "||".$user;

$line .= "||".$news;

$line .= "||".date('D m.d.y h:i:s A')."\r\n";

 

$fp = fopen("news.txt","a");

 

//if(!$fp) {

//    echo 'Error: Cannot open file.';

//    exit;

 

//}

 

fwrite($fp, $line);

 

fclose($fp);

 

}

 

?>

 

<form method="post" action="managehome.php">

  <p>

  Title<br/>

  <input type="text" name="title" size="19" maxlength="35"><br/>

  User (who you are)<br/>

  <select name="user">

<option value="1">David</option>

<option value="2">Cochise</option>

<option value="3">Ben</option>

</select><br/>

  News text<br/>

  <textarea rows="9" name="news" cols="30"></textarea><br/><br/>

  <input type="submit" value="Post" name="submit"></p>

</form>

 

[MadTechie]

First Off,

don't hi-jack someone elses thread

2nd use [ Code] tags