Saving data from "form to a file"

#1
ankit

Posted 08 February 2010 - 02:29 AM

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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??

<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>

Edited by Orjan, 08 February 2010 - 05:09 AM.
Please use code tags!

#2
Orjan

Posted 08 February 2010 - 05:17 AM

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the row

fputs(fp,$name);

shall be

fputs($fp,$name);

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

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

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#3
Guest_Jaan_*

Posted 08 February 2010 - 05:30 PM

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

#4
ankit

Posted 09 February 2010 - 02:39 AM

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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!

#5
Guest_Jaan_*

Posted 09 February 2010 - 02:59 AM

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$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..

#6
Orjan

Posted 09 February 2010 - 06:18 AM

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

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#7
webcodez

Posted 13 February 2010 - 07:53 AM

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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.

#8
Orjan

Posted 14 February 2010 - 02:00 PM

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webcodez said:

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.

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