Easy or Simple? please Help?

countPHP

Well I got a question, anyways. I have built a form for people to fill out on our local intranet. This form then has a SUBMIT button at the bottem of the page the employee clicks this after filling out all the details, upon the employee clicking the button it will create a FILE on my w2kas BOX in a assigned folder. How can I make it so it creates a file and copys all the details the employee has filled out into a .txt file? please tell me this is easy.

This computer will act as a dumb terminal so there cant be any prompts to "save info to where?" all anything it has to be dumb proof..

can anyone help please 🙂
cheers

matt_4013

It's not particularly hard, you need to use the file functions like so, and ensure that apache has write access to the directory you're writing to:

$fp = fopen($filename, "w+")) or die("Could not create file pointer!");

// Here you need to format the data how you want it, the way i have it is an example
foreach($_POST as $k=>$v) {

$data .= "$k: $v\n";
}

// now write it to the file
fwrite($fp, $data);

// and close the file!
fclose($fp);

Hope that helps!
Matt

countPHP

ammm I dont use apache I use IIS? can it still be done?

suntra

It should, but I don't know IIS...

matt_4013

yeah, it can be done as long as the user that the IIS service is running as has write access 🙂

countPHP

can you give me a hint on how to add this bit of code at the bottem of the page and make it work through a button?

matt_4013

You should probably do it very similar to this 🙂

<?php

// Here we check if the form has been submitted
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

// If it has we start doing this stuff

// Now we set our variables
$directory = "c:/path/to/directory/";
$filename = $_POST['givenname'].$_POST['surname'];

// Open the file (If it doesn't exist, this will create it
$fp = fopen($directory.$filename, "w+")) or die("Could not create file pointer!");

// Here you need to format the data how you want it, the way i have it is an example
foreach($_POST as $k=>$v) {

	$data .= "$k: $v\n";
}

// now write it to the file, if it worked tell the user, if not, fail miserably!
if(!fwrite($fp, $data)) {

	echo "Writing to file FAILED!!! Oh god no!";
} else {

	echo "Success! Nice Bruva!";
}

// and close the file!
fclose($fp);
}

?>

<form action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post">
<input type="text" name="surname" />
<br />
<input type="text" name="givenname" />
<br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go go go!" />
</form>

NOTE: This is STILL an example, you should customize this to how you need it.

Hope that helps!
Matt

countPHP

Parse error: parse error in C:\apache\htdocs\hrintra\testphp.php on line 23

ok I get that error right, but if I delete that line of code it works and I get the GOGOGO button, and I can fill in stuff into the 2 text boxs. but when I click it comes up broken

this is the line which causes the error/
// Open the file (If it doesn't exist, this will create it
$fp = fopen($directory.$filename, "w+")) or die("Could not ;create file pointer!");

I am a newbie at PHP but I am learning

cheers

matt_4013

$fp = fopen($directory.$filename, "w+") or die("Could not ;create file pointer!");

It should be that ^. I accidentally put another bracket in after the fopen function 🙂

countPHP

ok now it works the first page, but when I click GO GO GO it comes up broken link 🙁

countPHP

please help 🙁

matt_4013

You probably don't have short tags enabled 🙂

Try this

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>" method="post">

countPHP

hmmmm I have sent the code to one of my mates and he can run the code and it creates a file and all.

IS there a way you can test weather your dabases is working? like a simpe one? because I am not sure if I have set up MySQL correctly 🙁

thanks heaps for the on going help 🙂

matt_4013

This isn't using a database at all, doesn't matter if it's set up properly or not. Couple of questions now. What version of php are you using? you can check this by creating a page with ONLY <?php phpinfo(); ?> in it. Secondly, is it returning ANY error messages?

countPHP

awsome its works