Placeing text with in a submit form, needing it to be copied to a php file.

[dazz]

I like to say hi, and i am a total noob 🙂 i requesting if possible some help from some of you if possible.

I am running a windows server as a testing site.
I am trying to make a installer script that a user can enter a name into a submittion area, and then that data being written into a config.php file, but as a string vaule so it would read $sqluser = "there text they entered"
But each time i try i get the first part ok, but no text they have submitted is place within the file.

here is the script i have used so far.

Any help would be very greatful

Thanks again and nice to meet you all

install.php = code

<?php
print "<form action='installer.php' method='post'>";
print "Enter a username:<br>";
print "<input type='text' name='user' size='20'><br>";
print "Enter a Password:<br>";
print "<input type='password' name='pass' size='20'><br>";
print "Enter a SQL Database:<br>";
print "<input type='text' name='data' size='20'><br>";
print "<input type='submit' name='submit' value='submit'></form>";
$data = '<?
 $sqluser     = "'.$_POST['user'].'";
 $sqlpass     = "'.$_POST['pass'].'";
 $sqldata     = "'.$_POST['data'].'";
?>';
$file = "nbs-conf.php";
$open = fopen($file, "w");
if($open) {$writetofile = fwrite($open, $data);}
fclose($open);
?>

For the installer.php script = code

<?php
print_r($_POST);
?>

And the congif when i run this script ends up like = code

<?
 $sqluser     = "";
 $sqlpass     = "";
 $sqldata     = "";
?>

[erikwebb]

Your entire script is going to run uninterrupted. You need some sort of if-else statement to determine whether the form has been submitted or not, otherwise, each time through it will clear the old contents and only write the following:

$sqluser =
$sqlpass = 
$sqldata = 

[dazz]

I have edit my original post to add all the code from the files i am using, how would i do what you are saying please ?

[erikwebb]

Try this:

<?php

if (isset($_POST["submit"])) {
    $data = '<?
    $sqluser     = "'.$_POST['user'].'";
    $sqlpass     = "'.$_POST['pass'].'";
    $sqldata     = "'.$_POST['data'].'";
?>';
    $file = "nbs-conf.php";
    $open = fopen($file, "w");
    if($open) {
        $writetofile = fwrite($open, $data);
    }
    fclose($open);
}
print "<form action='installer.php' method='post'>";
print "Enter a username:<br>";
print "<input type='text' name='user' size='20'><br>";
print "Enter a Password:<br>";
print "<input type='password' name='pass' size='20'><br>";
print "Enter a SQL Database:<br>";
print "<input type='text' name='data' size='20'><br>";
print "<input type='submit' name='submit' value='submit'></form>";
?> 

[dazz]

Ok i have tried that coding and i still get the same as before. I am a little lost why it does not seam to write the details myself.

Guess being new i missing something.

I just want a basic scritp that i can use to have a text field that a user enters a name, and that name would be place in a php file and then placed within a string like $sqluser = "name placed here"

but i tried changing the " and ' but nothing seams to want to add the name inside the quotes, it stays blank.

i thought it could be due to testing on a windows server, but i also uploaded it to our main server and still same results.

[erikwebb]

The name of this file is installer.php, right?

[dazz]

The file that you sent code for is install.php

The installer.php is basicly a install for sql tables that i using.

The over all details i really trying to get is i enter the sql username into a text area, then the sql password, and the database i want, them details are then place within a config.php file showing like

$sqluser = "dazz"
$sqlpass = "happy"
$sqldata = "listing"

So when i then make the next part of the script it can then pull these strings from then config and install the sql database i made.

[erikwebb]

The form action you have set is installer.php. If you want the script to submit "to itself" change that to either the name of the file itself of change it to

action="<?php print $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]; ?>"

[dazz]

Thx, but any idea on why the submit text field are still not being place within the config ?

I really at a loss here 🙁

Thanks for all your help so far.

[erikwebb]

Try this so that you can eliminate any possible quotation problems:

<?php

if (isset($_POST["submit"])) {
    $data = '<?
    $sqluser     = "'.$_POST['user'].'";
    $sqlpass     = "'.$_POST['pass'].'";
    $sqldata     = "'.$_POST['data'].'";
?>';
    $file = "nbs-conf.php";
    $open = fopen($file, "w");
    if($open) {
        $writetofile = fwrite($open, $data);
    }
    fclose($open);
}
{ ?>
<form action="<? print $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]; ?>" method="post">
Enter a username:<br>
<input type="text" name="user" size="20"><br>
Enter a Password:<br>
<input type="password" name="pass" size="20"><br>
Enter a SQL Database:<br>
<input type="text" name="data" size="20"><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>

[dazz]

That brings up a Parse error: parse error in install.php on line 26

🙂 man this is fun hehe,

[dazz]

ok i been planing with it for a while now changing the details more but i sema to be heading for a dead end 🙁 i do not understand why this code works on someone elses system and not on mine or online server.

Would anyone be will for making a script like this for a payment via paypal ?

I really like to get this working.