Automaticly Create a Link From a Submit Form?

[Chicken]

Is it possible to have a form and to take a url submitted from the form and place it on another page page as a link?

 

 

[jvrothjr]

is the page html or dynamic

[sKunKbad]

FORM.HTML

<form action="pagewithlinks.php" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="newlink"></input>
    <input type="submit" value="Subscribe"></input>
</form>

 

PAGEWITHLINKS.PHP

<?php
$link = $_POST['newlink'];
echo "<a href='$link'>LINK TO WHATEVER YOU TYPED IN</a>";
?>

[Chicken]

FORM.HTML

<form action="pagewithlinks.php" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="newlink"></input>
    <input type="submit" value="Subscribe"></input>
</form>

 

PAGEWITHLINKS.PHP

<?php
$link = $_POST['newlink'];
echo "<a href='$link'>LINK TO WHATEVER YOU TYPED IN</a>";
?>

 

It overwrites the one before it...

[sKunKbad]

You didn't ask for the links to be added to a database, but it sounds like you will need to write a php program that adds links to a database, then when the pagewithlinks.php page is viewed you will query the database and echo the result of the query. This is about as simple of a task as you can do with php/mysql. I recommend reading this book to learn how to do this:

 

PHP & MySQL For Dummies 3rd edition

[Chicken]

i was thinking of something using fopen, fwrite, then fclose but i can't seem to get it to work

[AndyB]

... care to post some of the code that isn't quite working?

[jvrothjr]

Could do that with an include file that has nothing put links in it.

 

[dbillings]

Here you go. No mysql database using fwrite. happy trails.

 

<?php

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

$filename="links.txt";

$somecontent="****$_REQUEST['links']****";

$handle = fopen("$filename", "ab");

   if (fwrite($handle, $somecontent) === FALSE) {
        echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
        exit;
   }

   echo $somecontent." has been written to ".$filename;
   fclose($handle);
}

?>

<form method="post" action="<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<label>Links</label><input type='text' name='links'><br />
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submit'><br />
</form>



Here's the code to retrieve the data and display it.

<?php

$filename="links.txt";


if(file_exists($filename) && filesize($filename) > 0){

$fh = fopen($filename, 'rb');
$thedata = fread($fh, filesize($filename));
fclose($fh);
$break=explode("****",$thedata);

foreach($break as $value){

echo $value."<br />";

}


}
?>

[Chicken]

Here you go. No mysql database using fwrite. happy trails.

 

<?php

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

$filename="links.txt";

$somecontent="****$_REQUEST['links']****";

$handle = fopen("$filename", "ab");

   if (fwrite($handle, $somecontent) === FALSE) {
        echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
        exit;
   }

   echo $somecontent." has been written to ".$filename;
   fclose($handle);
}

?>

<form method="post" action="<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<label>Links</label><input type='text' name='links'><br />
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submit'><br />
</form>



Here's the code to retrieve the data and display it.

<?php

$filename="links.txt";


if(file_exists($filename) && filesize($filename) > 0){

$fh = fopen($filename, 'rb');
$thedata = fread($fh, filesize($filename));
fclose($fh);
$break=explode("****",$thedata);

foreach($break as $value){

echo $value."<br />";

}


}
?>

 

Will it write to the middle of a file without overwriting previous data?

[dbillings]

If by middle you mean end yes i.e. if you submit

 

<a href="#">TEST</a>

Then submit

<a href="#">TEST1</a>

You will have

<a href="#">TEST</a>
<a href="#">TEST1</a>

 

[Chicken]

When you say end do you mean after </html>?

[dbillings]

It doesn't write to an html file it writes to a text file. You can return the result anywhere on the web-page you want it to.