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JumpJump
JumpJump

Reputation: 115

Retrieving text from HTML5 to write to a file with PHP?

I was wondering if there was a way to retrieve info from a certain element in HTML and then write it to a file using PHP ?

For example:

<div id="info_needed">text needed</div>
<button id="submit info"> Click to write to PHP file</button>

How would I retrieve the "text needed" and write it to a file using php? (I understand I will have to use the Write() command, but I am completely lost on how to get the info.

Any help would be awesome.

Thanks guys!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 137

Answers (1)

Rob
Rob

Reputation: 224

Use jQuery to pull the text out. $('#id').text()

Use jQuery.ajax() to post to a PHP file that does the processing. i.e. capture the posted text.

You can use jQuery.post(). Make sure you set data parameter. {value: sometext} Your PHP script can then use file_put_contents() in append mode to append the text to the file.

P.S.: You could have a success function that indicates the action was successful.

Upvotes: 1

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