Getting a file to a php variable?

cemlouis

Hi,

I have a simple form tag like below

<form name="form1" method="post" action="http://www.mysite.com/blabla.txt">
  <input type="text" name="textfield">
  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>

this code go and gets blabla.txt and shows a window to save. Anyway I want to get this txt to a php variable like $txt or $output to process...

How can I do this?

Thank you,
Cem

bpat1434

[man]file_get_contents/man

~Brett

cemlouis

No actually the file is created on the fly with a request like:

http://api.dn.com/call.cgi?login=mylogin&pw=mypw&check=1&who=adomain

How can I get this on the fly created file to a php variable?

bpat1434

So let me get this straight:
You send vars through the URL to a PHP page which creates a text-file on the fly. You have to write strings to the text-file and save it. Then you want to read the text-file into a string.

Why? Why not do it in one step and just concatenate the posted vars into a string before, or after you write the text-file? Then you don't have to read the file.

And [man]file_get_contents/man will still read any file and give you the contents/output. Whether it's dynamically created or not. So long as the file is there, it'll read it.

cemlouis

Sorry for late responses I am also working and have time at nights...

Yes I am sending variables with a form I use post method with hidden tags. And the file appears on the screen (like save, open, cancel window). Which the file name is call.com I need to put these lines (inside the file "call.com") to a php variable...

bpat1434

right... [man]file_get_contents/man does that:
file_get_contents( string filename [, bool use_include_path [, resource context [, int offset [, int maxlen]]]] )
returns the file in a string
file_get_contents() is the preferred way to read the contents of a file into a string.

I don't understand why it doesn't work for your purpose....