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bazla002
bazla002

Reputation: 11

I want to use PHP to take text from a textbox and add it to a text file

I have written a PHP script to run with HTML that takes the text entered into a textbox and place it in a text file, however, the code does not work and I cannot figure out why. I'm fairly new to PHP and it would be great if somebody could help :D 

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Altering text files</title>
    </head>
<body>

<form name ="form1" method ="post" action = "">

<input type = "text" name = "string">
<input type = "submit" name = "submit" value = "Add text">

</form>

</body>
</html>
<?php

$file = "./lines.txt";
$write = $_POST['string']

file_put_contents($file , $write, FILE_APPEND);

?>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 887

Answers (2)

Frankich
Frankich

Reputation: 852

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Altering text files</title>
    </head>
<body>

<form name ="form1" method ="post" action = "">

<input type = "text" name = "string">
<input type = "submit" name = "submit" value = "Add text">

</form>

</body>
</html>

<?php
if(isset($_POST))
{
    var_dump($_POST);
    echo 'foo!';
    /*$file = "./lines.txt";
    $write = $_POST['string'];

    file_put_contents($file , $write, FILE_APPEND);*/
}

?>

test it to see if something is printed

Upvotes: 1

Rabih
Rabih

Reputation: 318

try to add semicolon after $_POST['string'] also try display errors to know if anything is going wrong

Upvotes: 0

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