Saving data from "form to a file"

**ankit** · 02-08-2010, 02:29 AM

Hi
I am a Fedora 10 user. I want to create a form that can accept form data and save it to a file. For that, I used the following code, but the file (names.txt) was not created. Can someone please tell me what to do??

Code:


<html>
<head></head>
<form method="POST">
<pre>
</br> First Name <input type="text" name="first"/>
</br>  Last Name <input type="text" name="last"/>
</br>       <input type="submit" value="Save the data"/>
</pre>
</form>
<?php
$fp = fopen("./names.txt",'a');
if($_POST['first'] and $_POST['last']){
$name= $_POST['first']." ".$_POST['last']."\n";
print($name);
fputs(fp,$name);
}
fclose($fp);
?>
</html>

**Orjan** · 02-08-2010, 05:17 AM

the row

Code:


fputs(fp,$name);

shall be

Code:


fputs($fp,$name);

you simply missed the dollar sign for the variable $fp.

I got an E_WARNING for that, didn't you?

Jaan · 02-08-2010, 05:30 PM

Hello mate..
I wrote a tutorial http://forum.codecall.net/php-tutori...files-php.html
Maybe this can help you..

**ankit** · 02-09-2010, 02:39 AM

I tried both the ways.

First I corrected the mistake of $. But it did not work. So, I tried Jaan's method, but still no file was created.

Actually, I am working over PHP on my desktop and not on any server. Is that the reason for the file not being created.
Please help!

Jaan · 02-09-2010, 02:59 AM

Code:


$name = $_REQUEST['name']." ".$_REQUEST['last'];
$file = "../names.txt";
$open = fopen($file, "a");
if(!fwrite($open, $name){
echo "No names were written to file. Check permissions!";
}else{
fclose($open);
}

well.. this should do the trick..

**Orjan** · 02-09-2010, 06:18 AM

I tried the code with success on my windows under xampp...

**webcodez** · 02-13-2010, 07:53 AM

Would rather use $_POST instead of $_REQUEST as $_REQUEST variables can as well be created through link ( contains both $_POST and $_GET variables ). However that's just my view on it.

**Orjan** · 02-14-2010, 02:00 PM

Originally Posted by webcodez

Would rather use $_POST instead of $_REQUEST as $_REQUEST variables can as well be created through link ( contains both $_POST and $_GET variables ). However that's just my view on it.

Sometimes, you might wanna mix get and post, and sometimes, you want to make your code generic to work with both, as you might reuse it in many places, then $_REQUEST is great.

**webcodez** · 02-15-2010, 12:34 AM

That's true.

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