save form data to a file

Ewwa

I want to create a form that accepet a user's first and second name. the form should save the first name and second name in a file. The problem is after I run it, error message said:
Warning: unable to create file storename.txt because Permission denied in /home/llama/www/PHPtesting/nameform.php on line 16

Here is my code:

<html>
<head>
<title>
</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post">
<input type="text" name="first">
<input type="text" name="second">
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
<?php

touch("storename.txt"); //make a new file for storing names
if(empty($first)||empty($second)||empty($submit))//check user input
{print "please type your name and click";}

else
{$fp=fopen("storename.txt"); //open file
fputs($fp,$first,$second);} //input data
?>

Thanks a lot!

thessoro

maybe you don't have the permissions to create a file through a script, try to create the file by yourself and then turn its permissions: chmod a+w storename.txt or chmod 777 storename.txt.

laserlight

Perhaps you could use:

<html> 
<head> 
<title> 
</title> 
</head> 
<body> 
<?php
//check user input
if(empty($_POST['first']) || empty($_POST['second']) || empty($_POST['submit'])) 
{
	print "please type your name and click";
} 
else 
{
	$input = $_POST['first'] . ' ' . $_POST['second'];
	touch("storename.txt"); //make a new file for storing names
	//open file under append mode
	$fp = fopen("storename.txt", "a");
	//input data to storename.txt
	fputs($fp, $_POST['first'] . " " . $_POST['second'] . "\n");
	fclose($fp);
	print "the data you entered has been recorded";
}
?> 
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
<input type="text" name="first"> 
<input type="text" name="second"> 
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"> 
</form> 
</body> 
</html>

I'm not sure if you do need to chmod the file, or maybe you have to chmod the directory. Either way write permissions should be given, e.g. chmod 0666 or chmod 0777 that sort of thing.