Passing form veriables &gt; $input.txt with redirect

Passing form veriables > $input.txt with redirect

stickman

Hi there I'am not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but I'am a newbie to php so I'll put it here.
I've been working on this form and can workout how to make php write the data to a text file which is named as the form field veriable ($address) and then redirect the user to that text file, the fopen command opens and existing file and appends. Iam not sure how to pass $address to php telling it to use that as the file name and what the command is to create and write to the file, not append to an existing file. also how would I say to process the data and then redirect browser to say http://www.here.com/$address.txt

I'd appreciate any help.

thanks
stickman

I've put a copy of my code below, which isn't working properly.

<html>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" alink="#0000FF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<div align="center"><br>
</div>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="9" cellspacing="0" width="95%">
<tr>
<td> <p align="center"> </p>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>">
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<table width="95%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
<tr>
<td width="30%" align="left" valign="top"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Agency:</font></strong></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input name="agency" type="text" id="agency" size="60" maxlength="60">
</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="3">Small
Headline:</font></strong></font></div></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input name="smallhead" type="text" id="smallhead" size="28" maxlength="28">
</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="3">Suburb:</font></strong></font></div></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input name="suburb" type="text" id="suburb" size="16" maxlength="16">
</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="3">Address:</font></strong></font></div></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input name="address" type="text" id="address" size="22" maxlength="22">
</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="3">Main
Body Text:</font></strong></font></div></td>
<td>
<p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<textarea name="body" cols="47" rows="15" wrap="VIRTUAL" id="body" onkeypress="LimitText(this,705)"
onkeyup="TrackCount(this,'textcount',705)"></textarea>
<br>
<br>
<font size="2"><i><font color="#FF0000"><strong><font size="1">Characters
remaining:.. </font></strong></font></i></font></font>
<font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font color="#FF0000">
<input name="textcount" type="text"
value="705" size="3" maxlength="3">
</font></strong></font></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="3">Address
Detailed:</font></strong></font></div></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input name="address2" type="text" id="address2" size="63" maxlength="63">
</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="3">Price:</font></strong></font></div></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input name="price" type="text" id="price" value="$00,000" size="16" maxlength="16">
</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="3">Features:</font></strong></font></div></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input name="features" type="text" id="features" size="62" maxlength="62">
</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="3">Agent:</font></strong></font></div></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input name="agent" type="text" id="agent" size="40" maxlength="40">
</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="3">Contact:</font></strong></font></div></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input name="contact" type="text" id="contact" size="30" maxlength="30">
</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="3">Inspect:</font></strong></font></div></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input name="inspect" type="text" id="inspect" size="36" maxlength="36">
</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"><strong><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Main
Image File Name:</font></strong></td>
<td> <div align="left">
<p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input name="mainpic" type="file" id="mainpic" size="60">
<br>
<strong><font color="#FF0000" size="2"> </font></strong></font></p>
</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<div align="center">
<center>
<p> </p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td> <p align="center"><font face="Arial">
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Submit Form">
  </font> </td>
<td> <font face="Arial">
<INPUT TYPE=RESET VALUE="Reset Form">
</font> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</div>
<?php

$out = fopen("output.txt", "w");

if (!$out) {
print("Could not append to file");
exit;
}

fputs($out,"$agency\n");
fputs($out,"$smallhead\n");
fputs($out,"$suburb\n");
fputs($out,"$address\n");
fputs($out,"$body\n");
fputs($out,"$address2\n");
fputs($out,"$price\n");
fputs($out,"$features\n");
fputs($out,"$agent\n");
fputs($out,"$contact\n");
fputs($out,"$inspect\n");
fputs($out,"$mainpic\n");

fclose($out);

?>
</form>
<HR> <H5 align="center">  </H5></td>
</tr>
</table>

</td>

</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

sarahk

Ok Stickman, first up have you seen the movie?

Secondly, examine your objectives

Are you really just trying to output the info in a plain text look rather than fancy html? Do they need to save it. What happens if you have 2 users at the same time? Can you be sure $address will always be unique. What happens when your disk space gets full, will you delete as you go?

If you just want to show the text then I'd just spit it out to the browser. Maybe we could post a reply about that.

In the meantime, I haven't tested this but wouldn't this work?

$out = fopen($address, "w");

HTH

Sarah

stickman

Thanks for your help sarah

Yes I have seen the movie, but have been using this handle for about 5 years. I'am a skinny.

I'am trying to use the form to create plain text that can be redirected to the browser. Thus the user just using file saveas $address.txt once redirected. All the addresses should be unique and I'll at a shell script to run in cron to purge all txt files after 24 hours.

I was considering spitting the text out to the browser but that would mean they would have to copy paste and manually name the text file... and I'am not sure if the users are capable of getting that right 100%.

$out = fopen($address, "w");

I've tried that and the form processes but doesn't create the file.. not sure where the data goes. If i create the output.txt file and use
$out = fopen(output.txt, "w");
the form works. but i can't get it to create a new file for each $address.

Thanks for your help thus far.

Stickman

Turrican

Maybe you should try this:

$filename = $address.".txt";
$out = fopen($filename, "w");

$out = fopen($address.".txt", "w");

I would be glad to know if I helped 🙂

stickman

Thanks for your help Turrican and sarahk

I've opted to run some commads. Just gotta get the redirect thing happening.. would like it to upon submit open up the download window in IE/Nutscrape.

<?php

exec("touch $address /html/pics/$address");
exec("chmod 777 $address /html/pics/$address");
$filename = ("/html/pics/$address");
$out = fopen($filename, "a");

if (!$out) {
print("Could not append to file");
exit;
}

fclose($out);
exec("cat $filename | tr '\15' '\12' > $filename.txt");
exec("rm $filename");