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user2094841
user2094841

Reputation: 205

PHP write file from input to txt

I've searched around this site for an answer but couldnt find any.

I have a form and I'd like to get the contents of the input written into a txt file. To make it simple I just wrote a simple form and a script but it keeps getting me a blank page. Here is what I got

<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form>
        <form action="myprocessingscript.php" method="post">
        <input name="field1" type="text" />
        <input name="field2" type="text" />
        <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Save Data">
    </form>
    <a href='data.txt'>Text file</a>
</body>

and here is my PHP file

<?php
$txt = "data.txt"; 
$fh = fopen($txt, 'w+'); 
if (isset($_POST['field1']) && isset($_POST['field2'])) { // check if both fields are set
   $txt=$_POST['field1'].' - '.$_POST['field2']; 
   file_put_contents('data.txt',$txt."\n",FILE_APPEND); // log to data.txt 
   exit();
}
    fwrite($fh,$txt); // Write information to the file
    fclose($fh); // Close the file
    ?>

Upvotes: 17

Views: 138849

Answers (5)

Floby
Floby

Reputation: 2336

Your form should look like this : 

<form action="myprocessingscript.php" method="POST">
    <input name="field1" type="text" />
    <input name="field2" type="text" />
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Save Data">
</form>

and the PHP

<?php
if(isset($_POST['field1']) && isset($_POST['field2'])) {
    $data = $_POST['field1'] . '-' . $_POST['field2'] . "\r\n";
    $ret = file_put_contents('/tmp/mydata.txt', $data, FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);
    if($ret === false) {
        die('There was an error writing this file');
    }
    else {
        echo "$ret bytes written to file";
    }
}
else {
   die('no post data to process');
}

I wrote to /tmp/mydata.txt because this way I know exactly where it is. using data.txt writes to that file in the current working directory which I know nothing of in your example.

file_put_contents opens, writes and closes files for you. Don't mess with it.

Further reading: file_put_contents

Upvotes: 46

Yogesh Suthar
Yogesh Suthar

Reputation: 30488

The problems you have are because of the extra <form> you have, that your data goes in GET method, and you are accessing the data in PHP using POST.

<body>
<!--<form>-->
    <form action="myprocessingscript.php" method="POST">

Upvotes: 5

s.lenders
s.lenders

Reputation: 1149

use fwrite() instead of file_put_contents()

Upvotes: 0

Naryl
Naryl

Reputation: 1888

If you use file_put_contents you don't need to do a fopen -> fwrite -> fclose, the file_put_contents does all that for you. You should also check if the webserver has write rights in the directory where you are trying to write your "data.txt" file.

Depending on your PHP version (if it's old) you might not have the file_get/put_contents functions. Check your webserver log to see if any error appeared when you executed the script.

Upvotes: 0

Lobo
Lobo

Reputation: 4157

A possible solution:

<?php
$txt = "data.txt"; 
if (isset($_POST['field1']) && isset($_POST['field2'])) { // check if both fields are set
    $fh = fopen($txt, 'a'); 
    $txt=$_POST['field1'].' - '.$_POST['field2']; 
    fwrite($fh,$txt); // Write information to the file
    fclose($fh); // Close the file
}
?>

You were closing the script before close de file.

Upvotes: 0

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