posting results

[meltdown2k]

how do i post results from a form to a file?

[edshuck]

I have never gone to a flat file. Could you mean a table in mySQL. That I have done.

And I can and will help.

[scoppc]

You can just write the data to a file, TXT, for example.

$posted=$_POST['postedResult'];
$file="somefile.txt";
$fp=fopen($file,"w");
fputs($fp,'$posted');
fclose($fp);

HTH.

scoppc

[meltdown2k]

yeah thats what i mean...but where would i put that?

[feldon23]

In the results page/part of your script.

You have your form, then they click submit, then it has to go somewhere to be processed. I have always preferred doing this processing in the SAME php file like so..

<?php

if (!isset($_POST['submit'])) {

  echo "<form action=\"$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']\" method=\"post\">";
?>
  <!-- display HTML form here -->

<?php
} else {

// user submitted the form, process the data here and write it
// to a file

}

Also, you have the directory where files are being written to set to 777 (public-writable) right? PHP scripts do not run as You, they run with the same privileges as Apache (in otherwords, very little).